Powdercoat vs anodizing
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Without a doubt powdercoat. Some of the industry powdercoats are abit "greasy" to the feel. Thus making snow and icestiction low.
Anodized alu is more or less like raw alu, really bad.
What he said.
And I'll 3rd this.
The down side of powdercoat is it is baked on and the heat treated aluminums can loose more than 1/2 their strength with a 300 degree Fahrenheit bake for any length of time. Powdercoat at your own risk!
Ding ding. Powder is definately better regarding shedding snow as its a much smoother surface and coats any imperfections and tiny surface textures. BUT, for structural stuff like the rails it will weaken them so anodize or paint are the only proper way to handle it.
Powdercoated rails, torque arms, and A-Arms last year by a very reputable company and everything folded up. Rails wadded up less than a minute down a trail from the truck. A-Arms bent when I went to load the sled on the sleddeck. And I have ski glides on it.
Torque arms not sure when that happened. Needless to say I'm very cautious what I powder coat now.
Torque arms not sure when that happened. Needless to say I'm very cautious what I powder coat now.
I've been having sleds powder coated for ten years, only bent one powder coated part. It was an a arm and the rock I hit was bigger than the sled.
I've seen guys bend non powder coated parts.
Anodizing increases the risk of cracks.
Painting is probably the only coating that doesn't increase the chance of damage, but it's not very effective either.
I've seen guys bend non powder coated parts.
Anodizing increases the risk of cracks.
Painting is probably the only coating that doesn't increase the chance of damage, but it's not very effective either.
Everything shown is Powdercoated has been beat to death and is holding up great.
Same shop who does ICR's stuff.
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here is some info on the effects at 300deg. as you can see if anneals the material.
if your powder coater can get it in the oven quickly and hit just over 200deg you should be ok.
as far as ano it depends on the type. there are some pretty thick hard anos that have a smooth finish. conversely there are textured powders that hold snow.
here is some info on the effects at 300deg. as you can see if anneals the material.
if your powder coater can get it in the oven quickly and hit just over 200deg you should be ok.
as far as ano it depends on the type. there are some pretty thick hard anos that have a smooth finish. conversely there are textured powders that hold snow.
The article is concerning an unknown alloy of aluminum.
Temperatures are in centigrade.
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