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Clear coat for alloy hubs .. Bike painting in general
Matt_Harrington:
I have a 'solvent' based degreaser that is water washable and is excellent stuff - pink as well....
AshimotoK0:
Someone also on here asked me what equipment I used to apply the clear coat .... It was a Devilbiss SRI Prolite mini spray gun with 1.2 fluid tip setup.
I also use a Devilbiss air-fed mask as the Mipa 2K clear contains isocyanates. I know a lot of people don't bother or use a cheapo mask but there you go.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
That hub certainly looks like factory new type finish Ash.
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on August 24, 2023, 09:26:02 AM ---That hub certainly looks like factory new type finish Ash.
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Cheers ! .. I have spent the last 8 months every Wednesday prepping and painting parts for some of my bikes. Thank the Lord I am nearly at the end of it all now.
Before some smart ar$e comments about me storing it all in a bedroom and how does the missus put up with it blah blah blah .... This is a room in a massive warehouse, which my mate 'Dodgy' Roger owns. He bought it cheap off a bloke who's wife had booted him out so he had created 'living quarters' in the building he owned a couple of years before he sold it. I can't paint at home because Cathy has bad asthma, so hence I do any painting at my mates.
This is probably 1/2 of what I have done in the 8 months. The CB250K4 is my mates tank ... I did it for him (PITFA though) 'cos he bought vinyl pinstripes for £65 from a guy in France (as did Ben Powell on here) and there were absolute sh%te .. so muggins here painted them on. The vinyl just would not follow the bulbous tank profile properly ... even Ben's dad who trained as a time-served pro-painter agreed the vinyl stripes are sh%te. Probably why Piki doesn't sell them for that model.
The mudguards on the bed were clear coated in Spraymax "2K in a can" Satin aerosol (super stuff ..pricey but you get what you pay for and one can goes a long way) and the others were clear coated with the Devilbiss gun with Mipa CX4 clear coat with about 1 part in 6 Mipa matting agent, as they are mudguards off later bikes than the CB72 and Bomber 450K0, where Honda used a glossier finish than they did in the early 1960's.
The 'Sardine' Blue/White CB250K0 tank was done all with aerosols .. RS Bikepaints base coat (fookin expensive ... should have used British Leyland Teal Blue !!) and Spraymax 2k Gloss aerosol. White was 50/50 mix of Ford Frozen white and Ford Diamond white solvent base-coat.
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Johnny4428:
Some lovely looking goodies there Ash! That is a tremendous amount of man hours to get that parts to looking like that. Top job!
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