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1980 CB250RSA Hawaiian Blue Project.
andy120t:
Some nice work going on there.
Locking petrol cap looks the same as my old cb900f - I wonder if it is the same part (and yes, I could look at a parts list, but it's a pain on a phone!).🙂
AshimotoK0:
When I was learning how to spray paint during this year, I joined a 'Pro' closed group on Facebook with main contributors being in the automotive refinishing trade.
Lots of useful tips, invaluable to a novice like me in all honesty but they don't suffer fools gladly. ;D Also a very male oriented group with crude comments that even make my eyes water and I wouldn't call myself a prude.
Anyway, asked them about wet painting a powder coated motorcycle fuel tank and this is what I got back.
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McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Thats very interesting information about painting over PC Ash - another info gem.
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on December 22, 2023, 11:41:35 AM ---Thats very interesting information about painting over PC Ash - another info gem.
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Yes Ted varying opinions on the way to deal with the PC. The powder coating on the tank I bought is very were adhered and I am tempted to flat it like they say and wet paint on top of the PC. I wouldn't do this if I was getting somebody else to paint it but seeing as I am painting myself it's not £££ down the swanee if it goes t*ts up.
I got a CB250JDM headlamp bowl from Japan which had been powder coated. With that I just put a torch to it and burned it off.
That group has trade info that you would normally never learn as a novice so worth looking at. I often hear them banging on about that lovely candy looking red you get on modern Mazda cars ( and similarly on some Renaults but doesn't pop so well IMHO). Evidently it's a 4 stage process and an absolute b*stard to do repairs on. One guy on there said he cocked a job up painting it on a Mazda and lost his job over it. :(
Oddjob:
I've got a Mazda 3 in that colour red Ash, it's called Soul Red IIRC. It's a lovely colour, very similar to the red on my CB1300, which is called Arcadian Red.
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