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Johnny4428:
That is looking great, that colour will fairly pop when the lacquer is applied.

philward:
Looking good Phil - my favorite colour for the 750 - I have a spare Candy Red paint set that i keep saying I'll put on my Planet Blue K2 (its just the colour change on the logbook I'm hesitating about)

heli_madken:
Now that looks beautiful, cant wait to see clear applied

PHILIP2908:
Started spraying on May 31st and still not finished after 14 weeks.
As a reminder, I decided to save a bit of money on spraying the tank and side panels myself. I ended buying about £120 worth of aerosols from Complete Cafe Racer; silver base coat, candy apple red and 2K lacquer.
The candy apple, being a translucent paint, varied in shade depending on how much was applied. Too little and it would look pink and too much it would look maroon. Added to this was the fact that sometimes the aerosol spattered leaving darker blobs – the result was: start again with the silver base coat and then re-apply the red.
And then the 2K lacquer from which I was hoping to achieve a nice shiny clear coat did just the opposite an left a frosted finish that had to be rubbed down – too much rubbing down could (and did) lead to breaking through the red to the silver base coat. Start again.
This is the ring pull on the bottom of the 2K lacquer aerosol that had to be pulled to start the internal mixing. Then it had to be used in 24 hours otherwise it went off.
Faced with yet another purchase of more 2K lacquer, I have decided to hand the tank and side panels to my local bodyshop who will cover the items in a good layer of lacquer – cost £100.
Would I do it again this way? Definitely not ! I’m up to £220 so far and would have been better off handing the items to a custom body shop and let them do it. The reason is that the aerosol spray fan width is too small whereas a proper spray gun in a boy shop has a wider angle spray which would help get a more consistent and even colour finish.
Having sprayed a few tanks in the 70s with aerosols from Halfords, you could ladle the paint and lacquer on and get a good thick shiny coat. Not so with candy paints. (Another) lesson learnt.
As mentioned in another thread, the 4 pipe set and fixings are now here and I hope to get it all together soon for my first ride out in 20 years.
Cheers my dears.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Very interesting and honest post about the painting process. Back in the 1970's I did a stint in a paint shop for a couple of weeks - in the days when dealers had there own bodyshops. It was when you used lead rather than compound fillers. In the last few days after seeing the painter Paul apply paint I had a go with the gun - I think his reply was - great job Ted a shame about the curtains!

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