I understand that powder coating aluminum parts can severly reduce their strength (depending on the alloy and temperature used) due to the heating process. I don't have any references at hand but I would study this before coating strength critical aluminum parts.
Jon -----Original Message----- From: "Randy Smith" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:45pm To: "KRnet" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: KR> powdercoating parts I had my engine mount and retractable gear legs on my 47 Bellanca Cruiseair powder coated when I restored the plane in 2000. I was told that cracks would not show by some but the APIA I used said it was alright. A year ago I had oil on the floor below my gear. I pulled the gear and with no trouble found the gear cracked at the top. Cleaned it off welded it and had the gear powder coated again. --- On Wed, 1/19/11, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
