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Does anyone know where I can get a shot blast and powdercoat in Yorkshire by someone who will treat the frame with the appropriate care?

Moon glu or ask york cycleworks who can do it.

Nice one, thanks. Neither of them seem to offer it as a service though?

No but they will know someone such as who feather use.

Yo, is Steve still collecting from you?
I'm looking to have a frame powder coated somewhere but I'm in SW London so Dartford is a bit of a mission. If so, would you need the frame dropping off in Lea Bridge Rd or the store?

Yeah. He is coming on Wednesday morning if you can get the frame to our Lea Bridge light industrial unit by then... Otherwise the next opportunity to get it to him will be 2 weeks on wednesday i think. DM me if you want to arrange something! There might be the potential to drop it off in Bethnal Green if it isnt a cargo.

Oh and on the topic of cargo bike powder coating... Steve can't fit an Omnium cargo in his sandblaster. So we made one ourselves. If anyone does need a cargo frame blasted, we can do most 'normal' length cargos. I think there are some photos of the process on our website, i'll get round to putting them on our insta at some point too.

I've got some mods to do on the frame first so it'd be a couple weeks anyway. I'm in no rush for it done asap.
I'll message you when it's ready then. Thanks!

Sweet dude. Just him me up!

Anyone know where I can find some tips for stripping a carbon frame set?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiqWy-JXB74

I went to an industrial place in Mitcham a few years back - job was fine for a commuter, might not take something super nice there though

https://www.willowpowdercoating.co.uk/

Dangerholm scrapes the paint off top end carbon frames with a rusty butter knife.. Sometimes things are made far more complicated than they need to be

That's what I was afraid of... Pretty bumming there isn't a good medium for blasting, was hoping walnut shell or some sort of plastic beads were a goer.

Stripped a carbon frame by scraping back in the day, and overdid it; extremely tough to stop at the boundary between carbon and paint. Maybe not such a bummer with unidirectional carbon, but crimes on show with twill.

The frame I want to strip has brushed metal decals and stripe tape under clear; the prospect of sanding what's left of the clear after the decals have been peeled, without going into adjacent bare carbon is pretty daunting...

He does blasting too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsHe4I0UjjQ

Obviously it's not as accessible as hand sanding, and I don't suppose that most places that do blasting have experience of stripping a carbon part that is structural, if they have experience of stripping carbon at all that is!

Yeah nah, I'm like fuck it, I'm not confident I can pull it off, despite having a history of pretty bangin' first tries at stuff like this, and it wouldn't be my first try, even. Definitely prefer to drop the dough on a pro, and it seems to me that with a bit of experimentation and experience, someone should have found a good blasting medium and got a good feel for it by now...

OTOH, I'd way rather I bugger it up than pay someone else to bugger it up, and if there's nobody in Melbourne or Oz who's up to it, I'm not down for shipping my frameset around the world; fuck that shit these days...

ETA: watched the vid, wish that bloke was a local... Still, I guess I don't need to find a bike painter with a blasting booth; just maybe either a specialised or very generalised blaster dude - can't see anything about the process that requires it to be a bike guy, unlike painting.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a firm that could strip back a painted carbon frameset to raw carbon, then apply decals and clear coat? Don’t want to pay £700-odd to Kustomflow, etc

With carbon the prep is the majority of the expense. No shortcuts, labour intensive. You could try stripping it yourself, this guy has tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiqWy-JXB74

It looks horrendous!

Random Question: Anyone found a RAL that's a good approximation of the Cinelli Lazer metallic blue?

Has anyone had just a fork powder coated? Any idea on cost?

Also going to dm, really need to get my frame finished.

I have discovered that he picks up from my work occasionally so I won't need to come to you @fly but thanks for letting me if I needed

No Prob dude.

Will reply now @chrisbmx116

Are there any recommended powder coaters in West London?

Not bike specialist by any means, but I've heard surrey coatings is decent, and good value too, might be worth a punt, based in Shepperton.