Painting springs

[L10 TVR]

I'm in the process of restoring a classic car and need to paint the springs, anyone recommend what sort of paint to use.

Surely Hammerite would peel off with the flexing?

[Roadrunner]

There are specialist places that can coat metal parts in a kind of rubbery plastic, available in many colours. What was that called?.....

[adrianr]

Do you mean powder coating? This is a shotblast then heat up & spray with powdered epoxy stuff process. Good for chassis, axles, even panels if you want a 'vintage' patina but I don't know how flexible it is.

Might be worth a browse round www.frost.co.uk ?

AdrianR

FWIW, my experiences of Hammerite haven't been that good - dries hard & cracks, then rusts underneath. Try some stuff called POR-15 if you want to paint rusty metal; again haven't tried it on flexible stuff.

[Roadrunner]

Ahh yes - that's the stuff.

[anonymous-user]

when my father had the Reliant Scimiter he painted blue shocks with gold springs! very nice!.

[anonymous-user]

i think its called "Plastikote", which paints stuff and then gives it a polyurethene coating.

[simonelite501]

Go for powder coating every time, you have to have the components shot/bead blasted before coating, most powder coaters with have this facility in house, your local edition of the Yellow pages is a good place to start the search. Good luck, Simon.

[mel]

Conventional Epoxy Powder Coat will still crack and flake off of springs however most powder coaters should be able to do a Flexibl Nylon Electro Static Powder Coat, but make sure that it has a good bead blast before painting, an etch primer coat and the powder is rated for exterior use.