Worth doing yourself some places don't worth asking them first .if your getting wheels done get the bearing areas masked along with area the discs bolt onto saves a lot of hassle .if they do bike parts regularly they should do so as a matter of course would check with them.

I had some spoked rims powder coated a while back for my cafe racer and they look really good but they didn't mask off the bloody disc faces! I fitted the discs just to see what it all looked like and one had over 0.5mm run-out just from the coating.
Took quite a while to get off with a Stanley knife blade and some emery cloth.

dobbslc wrote:I had some spoked rims powder coated a while back for my cafe racer and they look really good but they didn't mask off the bloody disc faces! I fitted the discs just to see what it all looked like and one had over 0.5mm run-out just from the coating.
Took quite a while to get off with a Stanley knife blade and some emery cloth.

Yes i had the same problem, if i ever get any done again they will be taken to a motorbike powdercoaters in Yorkshire who do a good job. They aren't cheap but all the stuff I've had done by them was very good and surfaces/threads were masked off by them before powdercoated

Thanks guys!

Other thing worth noting is that powders can't be mixed like paint can, so you usually find colour options far more limiting. I had some wheels powder coated "gold" but they only had a choice of two which wound up looking like shit mixed with milk rather than gold!

Had them re-sprayed in 2k paint to a colour mix of my spec and now they are perfect. Arguably not as durable but still pretty hard wearing

I always do, it's easier. I also mask with duck tape anywhere I don't want powder / blasting rather than leave it to the blasters memory. They'll remove it after blasting and replace with a different tape when coating.
Also, make sure there is no grease or oil inside the part. When it goes in the oven it will leach out and ruin / bubble the finish.