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Vortec57
Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 06:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Did a search and didn't come up with anything that answered my question and checked out the KV to no avail.

Anyhow. I've got to rotate my motor down this winter and do new rocker box gaskets and a few things. While it's down I was thinking of slinging some black paint on my frame/swingarm.

I don't want to tear the bike down entirely, so not stripping it of the factory coating.
Any suggestions on what kind of paint to use on it? Has anyone painted their frame and had any issues with it?

I've done some painting before so I'll of course be cleaning it throughly and scuffing it good before spraying. I plan to use a good grade paint and spray with my gun, no rattle can job.
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Bads1
Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 06:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I've done it.
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Skinstains
Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 07:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Sorry, I'm a rattle-can guy.
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Vortec57
Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 08:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Bads, can ya give me more info on it? From the looks of things you're about the resident paint expert.
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Bads1
Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 09:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'm not a expert my good friend is. Although I prepped alot of it. He was the artist. Doing this as we speak.



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Rpm4x4
Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 09:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Why would it be any different than painting anything else?
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Bads1
Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 09:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

My Son also does work for him. He presented Erik with a full XB body set.



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Bads1
Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 09:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Its not 4X4 just the prep work is slightly more intense when your doing it without it being completely stripped is all.
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Rpm4x4
Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 10:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Its not 4X4 just the prep work is slightly more intense when your doing it without it being completely stripped is all.

LOL. I've painted... and assisted painting many vehicles as a very good friend of mine works across the parking lot from me at an autobody shop. I am his prep bitch on a lot of his side jobs. From what I've seen you can paint pretty much anything.
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2008xb12scg
Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 10:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Bads1-hope you post a picture of that when it's done. Looks pretty cool!
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Etennuly
Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 06:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

57,

You can actually use the long cured powder coat as a base primer. I have done it several times in my shop and on my Uly wheels.

Clean them really well with mineral spirits, sand to a smooth finish with 600 grit and water. Do not sand through the surface, keep your sand paper off the edges. I use an adhesion coat as a preventative measure and then just paint over it with a good quality urethane.
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Bads1
Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 07:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

To help you with wet sanding primer. Use a a guide coat. A guide coat is using a black spray paint in a rattle can and just mist on black over your primer..... just a mist. Then wet sand. You'll know when you are done when you have wet sanded the guide coat off. If another coat of primer is needed and sometimes it may to fill tiny imperfections..... then repeat the step's.
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Bads1
Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 07:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Don't.... or try not to burn through the primer.
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Vortec57
Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 08:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Etennuly:
Thanks, I'll try it using the powdercoat.
I've painted before and done my fair share of prep work for other projects, just wondered if there was goign to be any compatibity issues on it.

Looks like it's going to be a go on this one as I've got a guy paying me way too much to paint his bike, and that will finance mine.
I love when it works that way.
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Etennuly
Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 09:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

What ever type of paint you are using, I would recommend test sanding and spraying a spot under the air box cover somewhere, just to make sure of compatibility before attacking the whole thing.

Have you seen the pictures of Bads1's bike. It is wild, and beautifully done.
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Bads1
Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 09:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

So true. I've seen paint have a reaction to even paint that lies below the primer
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