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    it is 99% cosmetic, but the blasting and coating does def have a subtle difference on the thickness of the metal, and thus have a lil bit of effect on performance, but shouldnt be out of range of the default technics settings

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    Never heard of blasting cast aluminum posing an issue but I have not had it done.

    To prep my decks for paint, I use a self etching aluminum primer on the bare metal surfaces. I don't prime or sand the rest as my painter bakes them and therefore runs a slight sand on them in the booth.

    As for masking, I mask everything myself. After trying to explain my needs to my painter we agreed that it would be better for me to mask it all myself. I also mask off the lower part of the bridge as to prevent rubbing of the swivel and bridge after paint since the tolerances of those parts are very small.

    As I understand it, powder coating is a chemical process not unlike chroming or gold plating. It may be my ignorance, but I've not heard of spraying powder coating. The reason the coating is tougher than paint is because of the chemical process which chemically bonds the paint to the metal.


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    Also, don't give up on your parts. With a little (ok, a lot) of patience, you can salvage those parts. Use q-tips and toothpicks to apply acetone to the bearings and pivots. Let stand for 15 minutes and begin to clean up. You may need to use a baby-nose-sucker-thing to remove it from the bearings. Once done, just re-lube as you would during normal reassembly using a silicon based lubricant.

    The bearings are sensitive to damage but they are simply ball bearings. All normal physics and processes still apply.


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    Cheers lotus - I've got nothing to lose, and paint stripper (acetone) was gonna feature heavily in my salvage attempts...

    Still pretty peeved - these guys should know what they're doing. They let me down BIG TIME.
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    Pics:

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    Not great detail - but hopefully you can see some of the grit/foreign objects under the powder coating...
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    More Pics:

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    Same again - but you can also see where they've coated OVER the bearings!

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    can't see the second pics/attachments you posted with the bearings


    upload to imgur.com it works better


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    Fixed - I hope...
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    I thought the entire bearing array was unscrewable on a technics ?

    Looks like a right mess there though, even if you got the paint off the top of them it'd still be caked inside them for sure.

    Even on the bits they were supposed to do, they dont seem to have done a great job, looks "Patchy"

    No pun intended I swear :P

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    man, yeah, they did do a horrible job. sorry dood!

    unfortunately the bearings are fixed in there, to my knowledge they cant be taken out, they have to be masked off

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