Common to have to re-touch paint on new attachments?

[Luke'sScreenName]

Don't listen to the guy demanding powder coat. I hate the stuff. Once it gets chip, it rusts faster than regular paint because moisture gets behind the powder coat and the coating keeps the moisture there. Why pay more for something that has less quality and is a pain to touch up later.

Just keep painting them and people can touch up later if needed.

Powder coat would be ETA weak link if they did it, but they don't.

Exactly!

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Some folks wouldn't be satisfied if they were hung with a new rope.

What's even stranger is that some people would CARE at all about the appearance of the rope they were hung from. :confused3:
To each his own. :drink:

 

[PJSprog]

All this acrimony over missing paint at an attachment point? I don't get that. As others have pointed out, it's a tractor implement. After you touch it up and use it, it's going to look exactly the same again.

We don't get touch-up paint from the manufacturers of our $30K tractors, yet there are suggestions the manufacturer of a $400 implement should include a rattle can? Some perspective may be in order.

 

[jeff9366]

Don't listen to the guy demanding powder coat. I hate the stuff. Once it gets chip, it rusts faster than regular paint because moisture gets behind the powder coat and the coating keeps the moisture there. Why pay more for something that has less quality and is a pain to touch up later.

What Is Powder Coating?​

The powder coating process uses very fine dry particles of resin with the pigment color of your choice. The resin powder is applied with a spray gun similar in concept to applying solvent based paint. The difference is that this spray gun and its resin contents have an electrostatic charge. When the resin powder is sprayed onto a part it sticks to the metal because it's grounded, attracting charged resin powder like a magnet. The charged powder adheres to the metal then is melted by baking at 400F degrees in special industrial sized ovens. The melted resin fuses to the metal, providing a uniform, thick and durable finish.

The result is a beautiful glossy finish that is very resistant to chemicals, wear and chipping, 3 times stronger than solvent based paints. Powder coating simply provides a quality finish that can be seen and felt for years.


Solvent based wet paint application can be sensitive to weather conditions such as temperature and humidity, often resulting in lowered quality with runs or orange peeled finishes. In addition to weather, the skill of the painter can also affect the consistency in quality. Since powder coating uses a charged metal attraction in the coating process it is more likely to achieve a consistent high quality finishing in any weather, even with intricate parts.


~~~~And I will add: Powder coating does not require time to cure, after application. One reason ETA's paint chips MAY be because implements are hurried onto trucks not long after paint application, instead of allowing several days for the wet process paint to cure properly.

Time, of coarse, is expensive.

 

[Snobdds]

Grey = powder coat
Black = paint.

 

[bcp]

No paint or powder coat! I want my implements hot dip galvanized or stainless steel!



Bruce

 

[Catman8]

Oh my God! Here comes the mob mentality to degrade and belittle the OP and customer for asking a question or pointing out his concerns, and along with it lots of excuses and a new sales pitch. Dear Rossn, come on man, get with the program here and start drinking the Kool-Aid.

 

[airbiscuit]

So obsessing about scuff marks on a ground engaging implement doesn't make you a little bit of a whiner? I have a mental image of the OP cleaning the barn in a suit :silly:

 

[Coyote machine]

Wow. Give the guy a break. Or, we should all accept the 'now normal' Kool-Aid inspired lowest quality of delivery because of warehouse issues, crappy care-less shippers/trucking companies. When one pays for something new, it ought to arrive in NEW condition, with all it's paint or powder coat intact. I get things delivered to me all the time by various trucking companies, LTL carriers, and others. Inevitably something is scratched, dented or damaged in some way. If you accept it by signing for it on delivery without any noted damage, it's on YOU. Otherwise it's on the shipper and trucking Co's.
I have a LOT of implements, most have arrived in various states of chipped paint, dented or bent edges, etc.
Most all shippers blame, or try to blame it on the delivery Co. I get it that many times the damage is outside the realm of the shipper's responsibility, BUT lots of times it's crappy packing of the item or some other fault.

Powder coat comes in various levels of 'bulletproofness'. My new aluminum decking boards are one level below space shuttle quality. It's almost impossible to scratch the coating, and man do you pay for it- but it will last near indefinitely.
So, to the OP, don't feel bad for asking, but realize you won't get much empathy from those who are more than willing to accept whatever comes their way- which in the end just keeps lowering the quality of what anyone receives if it becomes standard practice to accept less than the best quality from day one. The more acceptance breeds more complacency, and so on, to no one's benefit.:confused3:
And if everything is going to rust anyway, as some of you guys state, why bother painting it to begin with? Just buy it pre-rusted from the factory and hang it in the yard with the new rope from a tree under which you sit on a regular basis. I mean what could go wrong? Could the rope break? Don't think on it too much- wouldn't want to strain something....

 

[houser52]

So obsessing about scuff marks on a ground engaging implement doesn't make you a little bit of a whiner? I have a mental image of the OP cleaning the barn in a suit :silly: