Can i use powder coat as an undercoat / Primer?

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I have just stripped my rusty racer series 2 and its really rusty underneath. Its gone from Patina to rot. Not really what i want, as this scooter is a keeper. The time has come for a respray. (i have a TV2 that can be my winter rusty racer now, in its place)

I dont really expect a paint sprayer to sand it all down to bare metal, so i wondered if i could get it blasted / powdercoated and then flat and fill the outside of the panels, where needed before sending them to be sprayed? Will the powder coat cause any kind of chemical reaction with 2 pack paint?

Also, i have been to my local powdercoaters in Burton-on-Trent and they have a really limited pallet of colours. I presume they are restricted to a certain range of the spectrum, because you can not mix powder like traditional paint. But what I is the powdercoat to be the same colour as the finished scooter and an old fashioned pastel shade of green or blue, so i can avoid painting the hubs / rims / forks etc again. I guess i want my cake and eat it, all for the sum total of bugger all!

Any links to midlands based companies that can help would be great. Or if there are any good painters out there, who can take the project on, in my area and save me the hassle, for a realistic price, i am willing to farm it out.
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Yes you can use powder coat under paint, mine is powder coat under the 2 pack, im sure its Jase Frost who uses this method also..

If you need a specific colour your powder man doesnt have you could buy the powder yourself from searching the net...

Be careful of powder coaters not familar with scooter parts, you might well end up scrapping it off parts that dont need covering...

If you not certain i would use a scooter specialist like Rube of elite finishers (stafford) on here and pay the postage or visit the north east..
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stafford in staffordshire?
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wax wrote:stafford in staffordshire?
Afraid not wax:
http://scooterotica.org/forum/viewtopic ... ilit=elite
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Bugger..........
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Look great when going with PD under paint. Have a customer that has done it to his TV. As mentioned, beware of PD on the wrong places. See if you can buy a roll of the tape they use for masking, its a heat resistant tape, bit expensive though, but well worth it in the end.
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Great advice. Thanks folks. Some local Midlands companies would be great still, if anyone has any suggestions.....
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alex ,try bournes powdercoaters birmingham , top notch and have never let me down !!!
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Hay Lee. I should have just asked you in the first place! I knew there would be one in the W-mids, industrial heartland that it is.

Do you know any scooter friendly sprayers?

I took a sx150 to a 'friend of mine' a few years back, to paint for me. He had never sprayed a scooter before. I think he thought i wanted a vespa painting or summat, when he quoted me. Then i turned up with a pile of rusty crap for him to sort: rims hubs, cowlings, petrol tank etc etc. He still doesn't talk to me.....
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What you looking for a blow over or full resto ??? :D
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