Spray painting me bike

i will be painting mine soon, only reason is due to it being droped

i have orded some replacment panels some from here, and got on delivered from egay this morning

you could so badly tell it had been done with a can the orange peal was all over.

i will be using 2pac with mine but they i have half the gear already, ie spray gun compressor and got loads of filler, primer, laquar, thinners, hardner, even white and silver paint, all from when my mates have asked stuff to be painted

the only thing i will need is the original blue colour paint and some sand paper and plastic adative

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by ricky

i will be painting mine soon, only reason is due to it being droped

i have orded some replacment panels some from here, and got on delivered from egay this morning

you could so badly tell it had been done with a can the orange peal was all over.

i will be using 2pac with mine but they i have half the gear already, ie spray gun compressor and got loads of filler, primer, laquar, thinners, hardner, even white and silver paint, all from when my mates have asked stuff to be painted

the only thing i will need is the original blue colour paint and some sand paper and plastic adative

Please ensure your half the gear also includes a good mask. Otherwise it may be a trip down to the mortuary.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by ricky

i will be using 2pac with mine

Isn't he dead????

Originally Posted by timwilky

Please ensure your half the gear also includes a good mask. Otherwise it may be a trip down to the mortuary.

when painting i always use a mask.

[northwind]

Originally Posted by timwilky

You will never get a good finish from rattle cans.

You can, with decent paints and a good approach. Mainly down to not running cans dry, and starting and finishing each stroke off the panel. Wastes tons of paint though.

The main problem with rattlecans is that the finish is so soft- the cellulose clearcoat you get in most places marks if you look at it, and bubbles if you get petrol on it. One of my fairing panels is rattlecanned- just a quick job to replace a damaged fairing, couldn't be bothered to gun it- and no joke, bees leave impact damage

Even singlepack laquers are too soft for purpose, that's my biggest frustration with mine- I polished it up to a reasonable shine, and a few months later it was covered in scratches and faded patches, not to mention swirls. So I polished it back up, and the same thing happened. 've just stopped bothering, I'd polish through clearcoat otherwise, which is why mine is more or less satin instead of gloss So, I won't ever use that again.

It depends a bit on how often you plan to respray, and how much work you want to put in- if you're like Rictus and respray every 15 minutes it doesn't matter that the laquer only lasts half an hour

2-pack's a bit tricky, because of the whole cyanide issue. Having said that, you would probably be fine in a reasonably ventilated space with a cartridge filter mask, if doing only one bike, or so say many people who handle the stuff. Cyanide isn't biocumulative if memory serves. But still, scary stuff to be breathing, I decided not to. And a pressure mask isn't really realistic for the DIYer.