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Just had this chassis powder coated. I haven't had a pink one before so I figured it was about time.

I'm not a huge fan of white parts (sacrilege, I know!), I normally prefer black parts (don't worry, I'd never dye good vintage white parts!)

I think this color chassis lends itself to white parts though. I'll probably do some carbon fiber goodies though too.

Cool color! It would look great in either color of plastic parts.

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I love your powder coated chassis builds!

Nice color but I have a couple of quick questions. One, does the powder coat add weight compared to anodizing? Do you have to strip the anodizing with lye before having it powder coated?

Joe6Pack74 wrote:Nice color but I have a couple of quick questions. One, does the powder coat add weight compared to anodizing? Do you have to strip the anodizing with lye before having it powder coated?

I think the weight of the powder coating in negligible. I believe the powder coater I take my stuff to sand blasts the parts before coating them.

Nice start!

What towers are they?

And what battery strap?

Please,

Sweet looking powder coat!

I always wondered how powder coating affected the counter-sunk screw heads on the bottom of the chassis? I was thinking of doing it with a chassis I have that have a lot of scratching vs. trying to polish (alot) and get a custom anodize job.

Battery strap looks like a cut down B4 piece. I assume the rear shock towers are relatively common, as I have one too.

The front and rear shock towers are ones I ordered from Fibrelyte and the battery strap is a cut down B4 strap. I still need to clean up the cut on the battery strap a little bit.

DaveM wrote:Nice start!

What towers are they?

And what battery strap?

Please,

lmw94002 wrote:Sweet looking powder coat!

I always wondered how powder coating affected the counter-sunk screw heads on the bottom of the chassis? I was thinking of doing it with a chassis I have that have a lot of scratching vs. trying to polish (alot) and get a custom anodize job.

The powder coat doesn't affect the counter sunk screws too bad. I'll post a pic of the bottom shortly.

I like powder coat because like you said, it hides a lot of scratches on used chassis.

Got a few more parts put together...

Still not sure if white parts are my cup of tea...

We'll see as things progress.

I like the white,

but,

if you must,

only use black arms

+1 for black arms.

I kinda like the white... But black would look good too