Reply To: Chassis Powder Coating: Are You?

[Rodney Ebersole]

I think it is odd. I would about think the oppisite would be true, as the baking of a chassis should about be part of finishing process of the welds which would envolve normalizing the entire chassis with heat. I don’t know. That said though a non normalized weld really should be more brittel. I wonder if manufacturers even go to the trouble of normalization? If they do whats the recipe and compaired to that whats the temp range used when baking powder coating? I have always thought it was around 400′ F.
I really dought it is the effects of heat from the blasting it’s self unless it’s blasted for extended periods of time with huge PSI.