[TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 54, Issue 28

[Cindy and James]

This client is a major manufacturer of trailer chassis to industrial 
folks like Ingersoll Rand, Sullaire and other heavy duty applications.  
Everything they do is power coated in their factories in Mexico.  They 
have forgotten more about power coat than I know (which I will readily 
admit, isn't much)!!! 

They just want minimal maintenance on the outside stuff.  I considered 
Permalac but had some problems with it on a recent outside railing 
project.  I still don't know what happened, but a white power permeated 
through the 2 layers of paint and the 2 or so coats of Permalac.

The railing had been pressure washed w/ hot soapy water and dried, but a 
light rust coating had already appeared.  So I applied a phosphoric acid 
solution, paint, permalac in that order.  The phos acid label said 
nothing about washing off the acid prior to paint (I looked!).  That may 
have been my mistake.  I have already spent 8 hours on a 30' ladder 
repainting the da*n thing!

Any ideas, guys?  Do you think it was the acid giving me grief?

I'll try to get some pics of the rebar staircase, maybe this week.  It 
is about 99% complete but the staircase itself (wood) is yet to be 
painted and stained. 

The client wants to have the staircase published in something like 
Architectural Digest or some such high-end magazine.  Anyone have any 
ideas how to do something like that?

James Allcorn
Paris, Tx
Bois D'Arc Forge


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> schade at acegroup.cc wrote:
>> James,
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>> Powder coating is paint. Just a different way of putting it on.
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>     Perhaps, but the client need no know that.
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