Process for applying metallic sprayed coats to the inner surface of a hollow body

In a process for applying a metallic sprayed coat by means of a thermal spraying process to the inner surface of a hollow body, which is composed of a metal having a heat expansion coefficient which is larger than that of the coating metal, the improvement in which the hollow body is heated to a temperature of over 150.degree. C. before coating and is cooled by at least 50.degree. C. during coating, with said cooling being carried out by evaporating a fluid coating medium on the outer surface of the hollow body and the removal of heat from said body being progressively increased relative to the increase in the thickness of the coat being applied whereby adhesion of the coat to the inner surface of the hollow body is improved as a result of positive shrinkage tension created during the coating operation which tension continues to exist during subsequent thermal loading caused by operation of the hollow body and which positive pressure shrinkage tensions during coating increases as the coat thickness increases causing the hollow body to embrace the sprayed coat with increasing force.