Powdercoating a vise?

[ChrisLS8]

Yes when powder coat chips you cannot touch it up and now it becomes a edge for it to continue to peel up. I would stick with a heavy duty enamel.

Also it would take SOOO long for the vise to get to temperature for the powder to gloss over.

Not true at all.

You can polish, wax and touch up powdercoat just like standard paints. The thing with powdercoating a vice is to use the proper prep methods, proper high heat materials to tape up whats not going to get coated.

And real important for cast iron is to outgas the material adequately to ensure no bubbling or oil seepage from the metal during curing.

I was in the powdercoating/ anodizing business for about 8 years and total, you can see quite a few things I did in Easy Rider Mag, the winners of the 2009-2012 Autoramas and the Ferrambler (Rambler with Ferrari drivetrain

 

[twertsy]

Finally got her all powdered and put back together. I LOVE that color. It's called blue-black if anyone is interested.

 

[Toxicscrew]

Looks great!

The coating will last for years. I'd throw more in about it, but CudaChick & Chris LS8 covered it all.