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Painting over powder coated aluminum

How do you paint over powder coated aluminum windows?

Colin Ross
private - New Zealand
2005

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2005

Are you talking about installed window frames? Clean the window frames with hot soapy water, mask off what you don't want painted, clean again with a rag and alcohol (denatured not 90 proof) and use a spray paint that has MEK / methyl ethyl ketone as one of it's ingredients. The MEK will soften the powdercoat and help with adhesion.

Sheldon Taylor
supply chain electronics
Wake Forest, North Carolina

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