[Roadsters] POR-15

[E Scanlon]

Apparently the software doesn't like the Degree symbol,  it's 450 Degrees 
Farenheit and not 4500.  I had typed the degree symbol using ALT-0176 but 
apparently it didn't go through.

Linda, the hair doesn't dissolve but the foam either shreds, tears, breaks 
down or whatever but the hair does not.  I'll leave the why to the chemical 
guys.

E

----- > Some thoughts regarding the difference between powder coating and 
POR that
> many ignore or may not be aware of.
>
> ANYTHING you have powder coated MUST be able to withstand 4500F for an 
> EXTENDED period of time in order for the powder coating to adhere and flow 
> out properly.  If it does not reach that temperature for the required 
> period of time, then the effectiveness of the coating will be compromised 
> accordingly.  POR is applied at room temperature.
>
> POR is flexible to a degree but ever more so than powder coating.  I bent 
> AND straightened a pair of fuel tank straps that had been coated with POR 
> and found no problems with the POR coating... it literally bent and 
> straightened out.  I don't know that powder coating would do that.
>
> Powder coating WILL chip just like glass... that's essentially what it has 
> become a glass like coating on your surface.  To my knowledge, of the POR 
> I applied to the wheel wells on my Z and Roadster... I think it may have 
> scratched it, but no rust yet nor bare metal.
>
> Powder coating MUST be done by others on pieces small enough to fit in an 
> oven.  Granted, there are some HUGE industrial ovens out there, but their 
> use isn't going to be cheap nor available everywhere.  To do large areas, 
> powder coaters use an Infrared Heating Lamp to cook section by section. 
> (The powder must still reach 4500F in order to cook properly.)  That means 
> that doing the inside of your fenders, either front or rear is going to be 
> very difficult at a powder coaters. Not only that, but you must have 
> stripped both sides of the metal to bare metal in order to NOT destroy the 
> finish on the other side.
>
> I used POR in my driveway for both the front and rear fenders AND the 
> Rocker Panels AND the complete interior of the car as well as the complete 
> interior of the trunk.  And I did this AFTER I had done the bodywork.
>
> So, for my money .. POR took the prize.
>
> E
>
>
> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] POR-15
>
>
>> Seriously, how many people are gonna crawl under your car and exclaim 
>> "OMG!
>> There's hair in your POR-15!"
>>
>> Pete "figures powder coat will last my lifetime."