Can you powder coat the forks?

[gregvhen]

Could i get my fork tube powder coated with no negative effects? or if i did this would they noot seal right? im talkin about the polished part on the GS not the bottom half.

[annguyen1981]

The polished part?  If you're talking about the cylinder itself, then no.

[gregvhen]

dang. i was.

[werase643]

Ti nitride or black diamond....DLC
powder coating is way tooooo thick

http://www.gpssuspension.com/forks.html

[The Buddha]

The top 6-8 inches yes, and the lowers yes of course it has to be split and all the fluid drained off.
I doubt you need to do anything with the inners, just pulling the leg and seals etc out should do.
The Other coatings are all near impossible to get done, and you dont want to chrome it at the local chrome shop. Hydraulic cylinders are coated with something like 1/1000'th or even less, 1/10,000 of an inch thick of hexavalent chromium.
Not the bi-valent chrome used in cosmetic chorme (handle bars, exhaust pipes and the like).

If you want to know in terms of toxicity, Bi-valent chrome is edible and considered a trace vitamin, hexavalent is poison. If you watched the movie Erin Brockovich the whoel sheite storm was around hexavalent chrome.

Anyway I dunno of any commercially available coating you can get for it the plunger part.

Cool.
Buddha.