Ducati Monster Forum

Can you powder coat the 1100 wheels, like the black ones but the older ones are silver or gold?

a lot of people say powdercoating can weaken the wheels. better to paint.

If the powdercoater has done aluminum alloy wheels previously and knows the heat must be lower to cure the powder, then there should be no effect at all.  The issue is the amount of heat used to cure the powder, which if too high can affect the temper of the metal.

I've had a few aluminum wheels done and no issues. Magnesium wheels are even more tricky.

the heat in powdercoating is 400degrees. it is in the oven for 1 hour. you need more than that kind of time to remove the annealing.

paint em instead.

+1 I've had several wheels powdeercoated, no problemo.

Most aluminums are heat treated in the 300-325F range.   You need to tell the PC guy that this is an alu wheel.  400F at an hour is probably not going to affect the aluminum much, but IIRC the guy who did my Oscam wheels said he cures the powder at a lower temp for aluminum wheels (didn't ask the temp for some reason).  He also said they have a little harder time because they have to blast the old stuff off instead of using a chemical remover, which they use on steel with no problem.

I have had other alloy wheels powder coated with no problems, just wasn't sure about ducati ones

Because their Alloy is different?

It is likely it's not the same Alu alloy, but that still shouldn't matter.

just for clarification. Ducati doesn't make wheels.

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It's not the cure temp as much as the fact many coaters use the oven to actually burn old finishes off before blasting because it's faster.

In those circumstances temps can reach 800⁰

Sounds like a lazy powdercoater.

8000f would age aluminim to the point that it would fail under the SMallest pressure. 

None of the pc guys I've used did that;  all have used soda blasting. 

Agreed
Soda or glass?

In my experience soda doesn't remove much paint.

It doenst work well on thick heavy paints like wheels, but it works wonders on the plastic tank, steel tank or anything thats softer.

And most powdercoaters don't specialize in doing special metals. Do remember that PC is originally and still is mainly used as a  cheap way to apply a protective coating on a piece of steel.

i want to say soda but now that you mention it, it probably was glass.. soda wouldn't cut too much baked on paint or powder.

you can tell easily, glass is reclaimable and is often shot in a blast cabinet, soda is absolutely not so its shot outside in a wide open area where they can wash it away.