You can powder coat just about any bear metal. You can see some videos here
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu鈥?/a>
And you can get the power coat gun here:
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.d鈥?/a>
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Some more powder coating information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_coat鈥?/a>
Good Luck
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FACT: You also get +3 points when you vote for BEST ANSWERCan you powder coat atv pipes?
Some ';bare'; metals are not bare, especially aluminum (mag wheels). They have to be stripped using a chemical stripper. Report Abuse
Can you powder coat atv pipes?
Might have been voted the best answer now. But go a head and coat your pipes and let's see who's answer is really the best. Report Abuse
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Powdercoating is applyed with a electrostatic gun and then baked on at temps generally at 375-400 degrees. Your exhaust will be exceeding those temps. The coating will burn off of the head pipe and a real good chance of it not lasting on the muffler. The best bet is ceramic coating.
http://www.performancecoatings.com/
http://www.jet-hot.com/
Since we have a Cornell graduate who happens to be a metallurgist in town who ones a company who has a power coating business I'll drop you a few lines of warnings he said about power coating: It's important that the base metal is metallurgic-ally clean. Metals such chromolly used in street rod and sprint car frame rails is considered a clean metal. Aluminum oxide beading, acid cleaning and power coating stick well. Metals such as CRS ( cold rolled steel) tubing and HRS hot rolled steel are considered dirty metals as well as aluminum. The moral of the story is you ';can'; power coat anything. The quality and life of a great job may be very suspect if the coating is applied to ';dirty metals';. Bu dirty I don't mean clean to look at but the inevitable trash - metallurgically that's part of HRS or CRS exhaust pipe tubing.
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