[69goatboy]

What B-man said.

If it's a welding jig, one thing I would look at the quality of the welds. Nice, clean beads that are only as large as they need to be with splatter cleaned up would tell me much about a company making a welding jig.
Fillet welds that look like a first grader globbed them in there with a tube of toothpaste would tell me much as well.

Since it's a welding jig, paint of any kind will only burn and affect how your tubing will sit in the jig. Powdercoating can be .010-.015" thick.

Also, did they cheap out on the quantity and quality of the clamps?

Golden rule of anything mechanical: fit, form, and function. Everything else is window dressing.

[SD421]

Great responses. The reason for my post was from an argument I had had with a header shop's business partner.
He had said that the owner needed to make the jigs look more presentable ie.. painted or powder coated for another investor to even think about coming into the shop to invest.

My argument was not to coat or paint them because it was a waste of time and money.

Don

[iceman411]

Pretty or presentable..Not really. At Magna in Clinton TN they got pretty trashed even with only a month of use. With the everlasting amounts of adjustments on a strict time frame, we get pretty mid-evil on them with hammers and such for the mildest shim adjusments and the operaters get down right nasty with them with abuse from bigger hammers than we used..LOL... We fixed alot of broken dowels and screws along replacing "missing" gauging blocks..Cycle time of the cell process to bring costs down would be more impressive