been over 3 years since I powder coated them and they still look brand new. no chips, flakes or errors!!! Glad I did it.
yeah did it at home...and we had just had a maverick/comet cookout. Frank was there...hard to believe its been 3 years. *edit* Frank, Effie, hotrodbob, Lance, Cole Isaac's, the Green's (I believe) Lonne, Kendra, Frahler and I am sure I am leaving some out.
I know what you mean. I do alot of prep when I am gonna have a gate powder coated. My PC comes out pretty good compared to other gate guys I know. They send their gates in to the pc guy with the pickle and oil still on the gate. The pc guy once told me that he wipes them down but he's not gonna be cleaning them. He commented on how he likes how mine come in and all they really need is the wipe down. I actualy stoped going there anyway cause I discovered he didn't even do that for me once. I droped off a gate and came back in like 10-15 minutes to bring some brackets I had forgotten to leave and the gate was in the oven already. No way he coulda wiped and coated it in that time. Takes time just to hang it on the oven rack and spray it.