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Old 26-08-10, 09:16 AM   #1
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Default Best way of removing spray paint from a fairing?

As Above, whats the best way of removing spray paint from a fairing?

I've chosen the new scheme for the bucket and need to get the poxy red stuff off and back to white.

Please tell me it isn't a week with the wet and dry!

If it helps its Halfrauds rattle can paint and the gel coat on the fairing is so thin its see through so I have to be careful!

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Old 26-08-10, 09:49 AM   #2
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Default Re: Best way of removing spray paint from a fairing?

Providing the existing paint is adhering well, prep it up and spray over the top. White over red might benefit from a coat of white primer.
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Old 26-08-10, 09:57 AM   #3
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You should use a plastic primer,not just normal primer, before finish coats for a 100% finish if you take it back to bare plastic.
If this is for the track bike just key it up and use a coloured base primer suitable for the finished colour and lacquer
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Old 26-08-10, 11:41 AM   #4
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D-A sander, avoid nitromors etc. As DT says, back to the plastic and a plastic primer
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Old 26-08-10, 11:49 AM   #5
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Default Re: Best way of removing spray paint from a fairing?

The adhesion of the paint is half the problem. There isn't any

Some is peeling off from whatever releasing agent was used for the manufacture of the fairing. Some is OK. I want to take it back to white and use the original gel coat as the white background for the new scheme, leaving it exposed as the white sections. (can't chip off then. You can't belive how many stone chips you get on a track!)


I'm going to try using packing case tape to pull as much off as possible I think. Then just attack the rest with wet and dry.


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Old 26-08-10, 11:55 AM   #6
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Default Re: Best way of removing spray paint from a fairing?

had a similar problem a while ago on another bike - sand, wet and dry back to base - clean and degrease with tack cloth and then plastic primer etc.
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Old 26-08-10, 12:16 PM   #7
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Stone chips on the track are normally associated with riding into the gravel traps and toppling over
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Old 26-08-10, 12:24 PM   #8
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If the current paint is peeling off I would thoroughly recommend a quick key back to plastic and plastic primer
I believe you want dual colour so instead of using the white plastic of the fairing spray both and use coach liner tape between the colours where the colours meet.
Doing this should you incur "Gravel rash" as is prone to happen it is easy to bodge up again like new
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Old 26-08-10, 10:00 PM   #9
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In that case mate, polisher with a course cutting compound, fetch that right off in no time, then a fine polish and it will look sweeeeet.
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Old 26-08-10, 10:12 PM   #10
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