Powder coating - Aurum / Vaz / Armourtex / Respray gallery

So is this the guy/team to go to?
Does anyone know if they are operating?

Anyone used Vernon Barker for resprays?

http://www.vernonbarkercycles.co.uk/prices_spraying.html

They are, the PC'd my TrèsCross last week. And did a mighty fine job too.

Looking to get my mtb faded. Seem stayer doing faded paintjob now, is that faded powder coating (is that possible?) done by Steve?

Much harder to control powder coating fade jobs, at least from the examples I've seen.

Yep^, Maldon have a bmx on their site as an example of fades, it looks a bit rough.

ya steve does it

Does Steve take frames direct? Easier for me to go to him than Hackney Peddler.
Sent him am email but no response as got 2 frames I would like redoing in a fairly standard RAL colour with a clear coat

@PQR I mailed him at the weekend and got a response within hour. It was a simple question though.

Yes he does. Just give him a call.

@TheShipwright Cheers both, he did email me back today, I was asking him about putting decals under the clear coat, bit steep for my taste at £84 on top of the paint job

Eh?!

Just go to Mario. Ask for Powder. He does the decals & clearcoat, someone else does his powder. Reasonable cost.

In follow up to me trying to get hold of Steve at Aurum a few weeks ago. He did get back eventually. Gave brilliant advice and did an excellent job for not very much money. Highly recommended.

We talked about powder > decals > clearcoat. The clear coat in this scenario is a lot more expensive than the powder coat because you can't powder over the decals without melting the vinyl. So it has to be a wet spray on top. Hence the expense. He was more than happy to do it, but it wasn't the cheap option.

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Looks great!

Can anyone pm me a contact number for Steve at Aurum?

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https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15137269/

Oh yes - thanks!

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I ordered a Dolan PC in gunmetal grey just because they didn't offer any colours I like. I am thinking of getting the frame and fork resprayed and decals removed.

After reading half of this thread which mainly talks about Armourtex I found out that they are not as good as they used to be?
So is the right place to go Steve at Aurum via Cloud 9 or Stayer Cycles if you're in London?

Or Clever Mike if they're closer to you, but yes.

My understanding is that Steve at Arurum USED to be the main guy at Armourtex.
I'm not sure what happened exactly, but the original premises got sold and Steve went out on his own.
There used to be a website with the Armourtex name for some industrial power coaters in Tottenham but now there is a shop in hackney, whether that's the same people I don't know. In the original location they had a bike shop too...

The evidence I've seen so far is that without Steve they don't have the same skills in not hiding fine details under a thick coat, proper masking, protecting threads.

Aurum now does some basic modifications too, I'm getting him to add several eyelets before painting. Will post results here.

Aurum is the best, he has done 7/8 frames for me now, all immaculate and turned around in a week or less!

Armourtex are shite, they did a frame for me earlier in the year, finish was no better than steve and took 6 weeks to get back (6 fing weeks!) and cost almost 2.5 times what steve asks

Go to steve (aurum) !

I just spoke to Cloud 9 and they told me they charge 100£ to strip down the bike send it to Steve and assemble it back once it is painted. Steve charges around 250£. The whole thing ends up being very costly. Damned inflation, in the beginning of this thread I read people were paying around 75£ to get the painting job done.

Hmm that doesn't sound right.

Clever Mike took the frame to him and I think it was around £120 including a clear lacquer. I don't know if they took a cut for taking it down there, I doubt they did but even if so it must have been small.

Can you dismantle and build the back bike up yourself?