Quote Originally Posted by Itoldyouso View Post
With all this good info, we are leaning more and more toward powder coating. Streetwerkz, you are going to be a great contributor to this forum, thank you so much for your honesty and obviously experienced suggestions. Two more questions:

1) Ok, Lab metal is out! What filler do you use and recommend and where do I get it? How easy is it to sand and fair?

2) After doing the filling steps, and sanding, does the frame need blasted again to give it tooth so the powder sticks?

Oh, and a third question. When you mention those prices for a "roller" what exactly do you include in that? How about a frame as I pictured?


Thanks to everyone again, this sort of community input really helps a guy make a good decision.

Don
answer to question #

1) filler is made by Tiger Drylac, your local powder coater should be able to get it for you. Problem is once applied, it needs to be cured in the oven, then sanded.
I did put some on a body once, and came back to it a week later at which time it was cured enough to sand.
It sands a lil harder than normal plastic filler, however there is almost pin hole free thanks to it density.

2) blasting is the very first step. any light flash rust that happens afterwords can be dealt with via a DA sander.
If you blast after the filler work is done, you will only mess your body work up.

3) frame as you pictured start at $500- $600 with blasting, minor sanding, phosphate pretreatment, then powder single stage color
anything else is our hourly shop rate

I posted this info earlier... my post vanished?