powder coated bumpers.

[casper50]

This isn't on a MOPAR but this can be used for them.  I thought a few might be interested in a cheaper chrome look than rechrome.

 

 

[milo9rat]

Looks pretty good to me.. Wonder how they hold up to the elements???

[Eneto-55]

Just don't "bump" anything with them. 

 

But on a serious note, was this done by the immersion tank method, or powder 'spray' method?  I worked for several years in the powder spray method, but have heard about a method where the powder is in a large tank that uses air injection to keep the powder in a suspended state.  The part is lowered into the tank, and then baked in the same way as the 'standard' method.  I don't know if you would still see the all too typical orange-peel texture or not, but the coverage is claimed to be more uniform, especially in tight corners.  (I have never seen this done.)

Years ago I also worked in a plating shop, and we encountered the same problem - the metal, just like the powder in a powder paint booth situation, goes to the closest point.  In electro-plating, we could attempt to deal with this by use of a small anode probe, which we could hold into the recessed areas, often turning up the amps right at the beginning to get some metal into those areas, then finishing off with a lower amps feed, to brighten & smooth the finish.  I don't know if some powder coaters have a smaller gun to achieve better coverage in those tight areas - the outfit where I worked wasn't positioned to take that sort of quality approach - it was mass production.

[casper50]

spray on method

 

[Eneto-55]

OK. The other thing about the way the shop did it where I worked was that we just had a hand-held gun.  An automated paint booth would have multiple guns spraying from all angles, and both sides.  When doing large items, we had to go around the other side inside the booth to get that side, and we had to get down under some parts to get that area as well.  Made me pretty nervous, because we were painting stuff like trailer frames & skid loader buckets.  Definitely don't want one of those to fall on you.  (And the hooks were not always strong enough for what we were told to hang on them - sometimes they would open up & something would go 'bang'.)

[casper50]