Hi,
Last friday, I went to see a local shop doing media-blasting (actually,
mainly based on aluminum oxyde). The guy does also zinc coating and powder
painting (done in an oven, I'm not sure what it's called in english). Powder
painting is ideal for frames but his oven is too small for my 194"1/8
Plymouth frame !
Anyway, I was really impressed by what he showed me about zinc coating. He
already did several complete bodies for car restorations, but mainly little
popular french cars. He claims that zinc coating the body is as close as it
can get to having a stainless steel body. He leaves a 50 microns (around 2
thousandth of an inch) layer of zinc on the body which has a sandpaper-like
rugosity. He claims primer sticks very well to that layer of zinc.
Anyone been down that road before ?
Vincent Van Humbeeck (France, 120 miles north of Paris)
'58 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe
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