Hey all,
I took a few parts to get cerakoted as an affordable alternative to PVC/CVD, etc.
Got the samples back today and for the most part they turned out nicely. However, on the bolts there is coating missing from where they hooked them up to spray.
How can that be avoided? Seems to me to that is just asking for trouble as one of the major things I'm trying to avoid with this coating is rust.
Secondly, if I go with this coating (or any other one really), and the hardware is bead blasted first and I choose to only have the bolt head coated, what risk do I have by having unprotected bolt threads on the bike? A good example would be cam cover bolts or frame bolts. Is it likely that the threads will rust?
Here is a picture of the cerakote. You can notice the missing coating from some of the threads and the area on the shaft where it was hung during coating.
I took a few parts to get cerakoted as an affordable alternative to PVC/CVD, etc.
Got the samples back today and for the most part they turned out nicely. However, on the bolts there is coating missing from where they hooked them up to spray.
How can that be avoided? Seems to me to that is just asking for trouble as one of the major things I'm trying to avoid with this coating is rust.
Secondly, if I go with this coating (or any other one really), and the hardware is bead blasted first and I choose to only have the bolt head coated, what risk do I have by having unprotected bolt threads on the bike? A good example would be cam cover bolts or frame bolts. Is it likely that the threads will rust?
Here is a picture of the cerakote. You can notice the missing coating from some of the threads and the area on the shaft where it was hung during coating.