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Last I knew they got coatings from PPG. My wife worked in the coatings lab and developed and test products for Harley. They have one hell of a QA/QC on that stuff. Couldn't have any imperfections at all in the product.
For inviting me to tag along on the tour of the Harley Davidson plant finishing operations. It was interesting. Somehow I thought it would be a larger operation, but the largest part done at this plant is an outer primary. I was checking all the boxes of powder to see who they get powder from.
You're welcome Jeff - glad it worked out that you could make it and nice to meet you in person.
As Jeff said, I think most of us were expecting a bigger facility, but this was just for engine parts.
Nothing unusual - iron phosphate pretreatment and a conveyor line with a couple guys on manual Nordson guns. They don't mask the new parts, all areas are machined after coating. They coat about 6 different colors, only 1 is a high-heat coating, all others are standard powders (even on the cylinders).
I saw "Hog Black", "Warlock Gray", and a high-temp darker silver that had stainless steel metallic - a custom powder for HD if I recall correctly. Big drums of PPG and Dupont power and skids of the high temp stuff.
There wasn't a whole lot of time to stop and look real close, but the 3 manufacturers I noticed were PPG, DuPont and Burke Industrial Coatings. One of them (Burke) was a platinum something or other that was high temp.
H.D. frames are not e-coated, the guide also said no primer is used it's just a urethane powder. All machining on primaries, cylinders, heads, etc. is done after pc'ing. All sheetmetal, tanks, tins, etc. are wet painted and an acrylic clear pc is applied.[/quote]
An acrylic PC over the paint sounds like a good protector. I know acrylic cures lower but wonder what they cure it at? Or what type of primer and paint they use to to make sure it will handle the cure heat?
I guess you have to go back and get the rest of the story GO BACK GO BACK
(SNIP) An acrylic PC over the paint sounds like a good protector. I know acrylic cures lower but wonder what they cure it at? Or what type of primer and paint they use to to make sure it will handle the cure heat?(SNIP)
They said the tanks are E-coated first, the sprayed wet with an Acrylic paint, then topcoated with Acrylic clear powder.
From what I have heard, most wet paints can take heat in the 300/350 range - but I haven't tried it...
(SNIP) An acrylic PC over the paint sounds like a good protector. I know acrylic cures lower but wonder what they cure it at? Or what type of primer and paint they use to to make sure it will handle the cure heat?(SNIP)
They said the tanks are E-coated first, the sprayed wet with an Acrylic paint, then topcoated with Acrylic clear powder.
From what I have heard, most wet paints can take heat in the 300/350 range - but I haven't tried it...
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