Powder coating - Aurum / Vaz / Armourtex / Respray gallery

Has anyone tried just clear coating an aluminium frame with Armourtex or anyone else?

3trum has done it on his frame i think. steel though.

Did you have any issues with the bars fitting the stem after powder coating? I always thought powder coating would have added an extra mm or so to the overall circumference, making it a bit of a force fit and prone to scratching on fitting? . .

I just used a spanner to lever the stem an extra mm as I slid it on.

Has anyone tried just clear coating an aluminium frame with Armourtex or anyone else?

I polished my aluminium forks and had them lacquered (blue bike above)

Had a bit of fun with some rattle cans this morning. I've had this paint scheme in mind for a while as Im preparing to buy a decent bike:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v82/Boost/grey4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v82/Boost/uni.jpg

Nice one!

my eyes are burning....

I am really tempted by a re-spray.
I have a Fuji track 2008 and would love it to go a nice deep british racing green.
However, you have to take the bike to peices, my technical ablity and lack of tools will let me down.
Any one fancy deconstructing and reconstructing, for a fee?

you should post this up in mechanics and fixing somewhere... maybe do it in parts.. find out what BB it's got and borrow that tool(tool borrowing thread)... then the headset is the one you'll need help with... oh, and putting it back together again...

Am I right in thinking that they'll only do single colours and won't mask out and paint panels, head tubes etc in different colours?

Am I right in thinking that they'll only do single colours and won't mask out and paint panels, head tubes etc in different colours?

I'm pretty sure they don't but asking won't hurt.

If you want an elaborate paint job you will have to use companies like Argoss or Mercian.

Just dropped my frame and forks with them this morning, going sky blue with a metal flake laquer finish. Once i have the beastie back i'll take some snaps and stick them up here.

Had a bit of fun with some rattle cans this morning. I've had this paint scheme in mind for a while as Im preparing to buy a decent bike:

unipack?

unipack?

handy for trying out colours

thinking of heading over and getting my new frame sprayed. how long does it take, if lets say i take it in on monday?

The leaflet that's posted on here says 2-3 days.

It's a bank hol on monday though.

I'm considering getting my new frame done.

Apparently they charge by colour rather than by frame?

If that's right, anybody fancy going halves on a charcoal/gunmetal grey? (ie getting 2 frames done in the same colour).

Do they apply decals if you supply them? Have people had them do it and been happy?

I'm considering getting my new frame done.

Apparently they charge by colour rather than by frame?

I dont think so.
I cant remember where i read it but they dont do that anymore

The guy told me that "If you bring 5 frames and we do them in the same colour we can work something out..." Pretty vague.

I've not used them, but I suspect they have a basic charge for painting a frame/forks in a single colour, then extra charge if you want two colours. That sounds logical to me anyway.

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I took my frame in on Tuesday afternoon, they charge £49 for frame and forks in single colour.

That gives you the standard finish, which isn't super shiny, kind of satin.

+£15 for a gloss laquer, add £3/4 or so to this I think and you can get a metalic flake put in the laquer to give you gloss and sparkly for £18ish.

So for me with steel frame and forks, no chrome masking, single colour and gloss laquer = £64

Extra things like bars and pedals, or hubs etc are £5 a pop if you are doing it the same colour. I think if you want a different colour you start again at a base fee of £45 or so and work from there depending on how many items you've got.

I'll post some pics when I get the frame back. ez

Just picked my frame up, sky blue with mettalic laquer, frame, forks and bars. Pics to follow. I'm impressed with the quality, no problems at all, well chuffed with result

aw crap, right, bank holliday. i guess im going tues then. i was thinking purple... mettalic? do they do pearlecent?

apologies for the simple question, but i would like a wheel powdercoated, because its a stock wheel i can't take it apart, so my question is..
is it possible to powder coat a wheel which is complete? i need the old black paint on the spokes blasted off.

is this possible?

nope sorry

damn..
ahh well.

cheers ved

I'm looking for software to help me design a future geared build. I don't have photoshop/image editing software, I don't wan't to use pedal i.d. as its quite limited and I have searched but all I get is i.d. I may have to just install GIMP and get whats-his-names .psd file from here but I don't really have the space for it on my harddrive. Any programs/sites?