Removing powder coat from car springs

[Chris Pook]

Just cut off the amount of spring you need and hit quickly it with a sanding disk to clean off the bulk of it, won't take long, were a dusk mask and then burn the remainder off.

My Dad's business has a powdercoating shop, they sand stuff off small areas all the time for repair welding all the time, big things we either sand blast or if heat/warpage, is not an issues we send it to a friends aluminum foundry and they hang it over the pit for us and burn it off.

I'd agree though there are alot of noncoated springs out there, but most new cars these days come with painted springs and more and more of them are getting junked.

[hterag]

Well the reason its an issue is I haven't found any without some kind of powder coat.
On a closer inspection I see that some of them are only painted not poweder coated I think I'll give up on the poweder coated ones and sand the painted ones.

Thanks for the advice, everyone.

[Nolano]

I have some painted ones, the paint burns right off lacking that highly toxic fumes that a powder coat has.