painting coated pipes

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maxdlx

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I got a set of aaen ceramic coated pipes, and the finish is dull. I was wondering if i painted them with hi temp paint, would it stick. I don't want to spend 50 hours polishing them, and still have dull pipes. Maxdlx
 
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You should be able to bring them back with a small high speed buffer and some good fine grit compound without spending 50 hours. If you want to paint them, you should probably wet sand them with 400 grit first.
 
Buy a polishing wheel and put it on a die grinder or drill, cuts the time in half if not more and keeps the good looks. I cant see paint sticking to that to well not without sanding, its to smooth of a surfucae with nothing to hold on to. I'm in the process of polishing my Ceramic SLPS cause there faded also, me personally wouldnt painted them. They look to good all shiny. But thats just my opinion.
 
Ya beat me to it Skinner!!!!

But buy the time your done sanding and painting, they can be all shinny in less time and look alot better. So the rest is on you.
 
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It should not take more than 2 hours to polish and thats if you take them off. if you just ploish the parts you see the most 1 hour will do it. Use any good alum. polish. Ceramics are worth a whole lot more than painted pipes and they cool better.
 
From what I have heard of Ceramic coating, you are not able to buff the coating with a power buffer of any sort aka a bench grinder or anything. Reason being is that in the ceramic coating, they apply a very thin layer of an aluminum coating and if you buff that away using power tools, it will not work. You need to polish these up the hard way (by hand) or else the coating goes away!
 
I used a die grinder with buffer wheel at a very low speed to give it a try and it worked fine. Tried it on the bottom of the silencer just in case, but I had good results. But I'm being held reponsable for giving someone bad info, so do it at your own risk
 
You can more then likely get away wiyth it by putting a buffing wheel on an electric drill or something. I am just saying don't take it on a high RPM buffing wheel. Main thing is not to generate any heat while buffing. Once heat is generated, the coatings come off very easily.
 
I think I will just paint over them and see how it works. i tried to polish them by hand it it would take way to long, and not look much better. maxdlx
 
I wouldnt paint them. As of now your pipes are dull if you paint them i have a feeling you're going to have dull pipes with paint burnt on them in spots and some spots it will be flaked off and look 100 times worst then it does. I say spend the time and polish em up.
 
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