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#16839 - 02/26/06 10:29 PM Paint or Powder coat
Draadkar Grease Monkey Registered: 09/19/05 Posts: 19 Loc: South Africa	1930 Chev South Africa. On the dogs tail with my chev restoration. The body paint work is the next step. A lot of guys recommend powder coating but I do not know if it is the better (best)way to go. Will powder coating have a gloss finish like a good paint job? After all I try to restore the car as origional as far as possible which leads me to painting.
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#16840 - 02/27/06 07:25 AM Re: Paint or Powder coat
Junkyard Dog Registered: 11/23/01 Posts: 20041 Loc: Eagle Point, Oregon	Items such as your frame, brake linkages, brackets, and many other parts can be powder coated (yes, it does have a gloss finish), but your body and other related sheet metal should be spray painted, not powder coated. $\:D$ $\:D$ $\:D$ $\:D$ _________________________ The Mangy Old Mutt "If It's Not Junk.....It's Not Treasure!"
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#16841 - 02/27/06 07:57 AM Re: Paint or Powder coat
Back Roads Registered: 04/03/02 Posts: 2023 Loc: Beavercreek, Ohio	You can have powder coating in gloss, semi-gloss or flat. I frefer semi-gloss for chassis parts. Just what I like and I think it looks more ariginal _________________________ See you Touring on the Back Roads. A Fifty Year Member First Non-California Member
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#16842 - 02/27/06 10:02 AM Re: Paint or Powder coat
jiaccino Registered: 11/25/02 Posts: 1373 Loc: tucson, az	I took some NOS pieces to my powder coater & we matched up in the Cardinal book to 90 percent black. In the sun light & under indoor lighting it's almost perfect. 80 percent didn't reflect as good & 100 percent is too black. I don't know any of us who have a paint dip tank big enough to do it like GM did. Powder would be better than wet painting....joe
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