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What parts on dirt bikes can be annodized, powder coated and painted? Like every single piece.
I know
Powder Coated:
Frame
Bars
Sub Frame
Rims
Hubs
Shock Spring
Annodizing:
Fork uppers and lowers
Shock.
What else can be changed? Such as engine color wise, triple clamp, and other various parts?
I know
Powder Coated:
Frame
Bars
Sub Frame
Rims
Hubs
Shock Spring
Annodizing:
Fork uppers and lowers
Shock.
What else can be changed? Such as engine color wise, triple clamp, and other various parts?
I'd stay away from the smaller parts when powder coating and stick to maybe the frame, swing arm rims ect...
As for anodising you can only anodise aluminium/Ti parts from my understanding.
Inner tubes or fork lowers do not send them away to be anodised, your only option there would be either re chroming, TIN or DLC coatings.
Also another option is to ceramic coat yours parts (cerakote) you can coat any material from steel to aluminium to plastic. I've done this process myself and extremely happy with the results
I'm no expert in these fields but hopefully someone else can offer some help to cheers.
If your going to anodise these parts stick to black from what I've seen you usually get a pretty consistent colour
Cheers
Triple clamps can be either anodized or powdercoated.
Anyone have experience with good looking and durable coating to use on 2-stroke pipe???
I anodised every aluminium part on my bike apart from the Cylinder (Nikasil plating couldn't be sealed off), swingarm and lower fork lugs.
Cast aluminium is more porous than billet so the anodising sort of soaks in more, All my cast parts were done in black and when they came back they looked sort of dark grey but after hitting the bike with a light coat of silicone spray of wd40 they come up nice and black.
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I see you turned your hubs prior to anodising, did you remove/grind down those four "ribs" that were in the hub?
I skimmed them down on a lathe, Made a slip fit mandel that fits snug in where the bearing goes that was long enough to gab with the 3 Jaw chuck in a lathe and put a tapered centre in the other side to keep it centred. Used a standard cutting tip and manually followed the contours of each. Took about 2 hours each hub, roughing them out then gradually polishing through the grades of wet and dry sand paper then I blast them with super fine crushed glass to get the cast look back into them so the finish was consistent.
Same coating used on firearms, lasts a long time. Looks good in black, not sure what other color you'd want?
Cerakoating such a big part will probably cost an arm and a leg but I'll ask around. Thanks for the suggestion!
This stuff actually works really good, I've used a stove bright blue on a YZ pipe and it actually turned out pretty good. The finish is not shiny, but it holds up to heat well and it protects against rust.
I only ever used this stuff to freshen up stock pipes, they sell a black with a little flake in it that looks better than the stock black imo.
Cerakoted frame would be badass
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