Spray Painting - Open Invitation

[TOTO]

Yes I agree the colour is nice - Candy paints are the ducks nuts. What you see (well as good as a camera phone will show) is Shovelhead Red. It is a Metalic Gold Base coat with a Red candy coat over the top.

The photo doesn't show the full extent of the lint and dust. Tomorrow afternoon I will be going back to refit the fairings to the bike - if you want you should come and take a look then so you see the environment that I was working in, let me know and I will call you when I'm leaving.

Material costs aren't cheap but they aren't super expensive either.

Super Cheap Auto:
3 cans of Primer/Putty $15ea - total $45
Wax and Grease Remover was $10
Small can of filler (for dent in fuel tank) $15
800grit Wet n Dry Sandpaper - 1 sheet $1.25


Car Colours (Albany)
500ml of base and 500ml of Candy was $150
500ml of Clear and 250ml of Hardener was $40
1L High Quality Thinner for mixing was $30
1L crap thinners for cleaning was $12

Spray gun was $110

Decals yet to be confirmed but probably about $60
for 2 by "KAWASAKI" for the tank
2x custom "ZR 250 Balius" for the rear.

The guy at Car Colours in Albany was very helpful and whilst I am certain to be paying "retail" prices the service and advice for an inexperienced beginner warrants this and is well worth the extra cost.

Well as I have said Take 1 doesn't really cut the mustard but I'm pretty sure next time round it should be a better result.

Cheers

Shane

Great Stuff Shane. I'm supposed to be working tomorrow so I'm not sure I can make it but If I happen to become "Sick" and can't make it to work will make sure I give you a call before noon and come and watch/help. Thanks

[Disco Dan]

Great write up, I have been thinking of re-painting my bike recently and mines candy apple red too.

Been told it is a very tricky colour to paint!!!

I have a decent paint gun now if you are interested in purchasing it on the cheap.

Quotes from Reflections were very high (but resonable) so I was thinking of giving it a go myself.

I dont have the facilities to paint inside anywhere now so options are limited (no carport or garage).

Sounds like you did a much better job than the muck up I made of my first bike re-paint!!!

Where abouts on the shore are you?

[NinjaNanna]

Great Stuff Shane. I'm supposed to be working tomorrow so I'm not sure I can make it but If I happen to become "Sick" and can't make it to work will make sure I give you a call before noon and come and watch/help. Thanks

It'll be the afternoon before I go over probably sometime between 2pm and 5pm, want to give the panels close to a 24cure drying time. Give me a call or text if you like.

[NinjaNanna]

Where abouts on the shore are you?

Live out at Paremoremo, sprayed in Albany near Bush Rd and Rosedale Rd

[crazefox]

Great write up, I have been thinking of re-painting my bike recently and mines candy apple red too.

Been told it is a very tricky colour to paint!!!

I have a decent paint gun now if you are interested in purchasing it on the cheap.

Quotes from Reflections were very high (but resonable) so I was thinking of giving it a go myself.

I dont have the facilities to paint inside anywhere now so options are limited (no carport or garage).

Sounds like you did a much better job than the muck up I made of my first bike re-paint!!!

Where abouts on the shore are you?

mate if you need some paint give me a yell

[Devil]

What have you done to my bike?

Hah, good on you for getting in there. I am not that brave.

[NinjaNanna]

What have you done to my bike?

Hah, good on you for getting in there. I am not that brave.

Tried to fix it after a serious lack of TLC from previous owners !!!!!!

Actually after seeing your bike I've got $50 that says it was all the last owners fault certainly not your's nor Lorraine's.

[NinjaNanna]

Well after sleeping on it for the night I have decided to try and recover the 6hrs worth of work that I put into the first paint attempt.

I'm going to try to smooth the clear coat back by giving it a rub with 2000 grit wet n dry. I'll then give it a fresh top coat of clear and see what the results are.

Given my inexperience I suspect that as long as I don't disturb the candy coat, this should give me an acceptable result (first time painter disclaimer inserted here), it certainly won't be perfect but I think it might be ok.

And the up side is I have shit loads of clear to work with and if it still is unsatisfactory I can always rub it right back and start again with out costing me anything other than my time. Oh and of course browny points with my loving wife (sucky, sucky - she's looking over my shoulder).

Will update when I've given it ago.

Cheers

Shane

[Colapop]

I was going to suggest exactly that. Rub it over with 2000 grit and then respray the clear coat. The base coats seem to be pretty good so if you just tidy up the clear I reckon you should be fine. Mind you, I don't know shit about spray painting...

[Mike748]

We have had really high humidity lately which would have added to your problems. I have painted on the cheap before and the first time I tried to do it without a water trap ....... on the next project I used two in line water traps : much better result.

Definately go for the water trap and bleed the compressor before you start spraying.

You shouldn't have that much problem with lint etc, either spray outside (calm day in the shade) or get some gentle extraction in your booth.

Good luck and keep posting the pics.

[Waylander]

Get some big plastic sheets to paint on and hang in the garage. Worked for me to keep the dust out. Basically making your own 'clean room'

[breakaway]

This seems almost as anal as when me and a mate tried to apply screen protectors on our PSPs. No matter how hard we tried, we always managed to get in a few pieces of lint between the protector and the PSP.

WTB Clean room

[Wannabiker]

Yep, the lint and roughness can be sanded out with 1200 or 2000 grit wet-n-dry used wet....with a little detergent. then either respray the clearcoat or just polish.
NEVER EVER use anything such as a syringe to measure paint. The rubber on the plunger dissolves into the solvent and that is what gives you the fish-eyes. Never let any rubber get in contact with raw paint materials....and keep silicone spray away as well!!!

My ex was a paint chemist and an ex employee saboutaged 100's of litres of paint thinners by dropping a rubber band in each thinners container. Took a long time to diagnose that problem!!!

Use a glass or metal measure. I have a ruler with the ratios marked on to it.
Say at a ratio of 10-1 fill to 10 cm, then add 1 cm of catalyst. Work out the measurements to suit yourself and paint type. Use the ruler as a dipstick to check quantities. (do not use a tapered vessell if using this method tho!)

[ICE180]

A bit different from what you have been playing with this week at work hih

Good on you for DIY the spray paint next the guys will want there cars done at work buy you

[Waylander]

A bit different from what you have been playing with this week at work hih

Good on you for DIY the spray paint next the guys will want there cars done at work buy you

Already offered to do one of the guys cars from work. He drives some shithouse skyline (no front bumper, fucked engine, fucked turbo, de-regged and god knows what else, Payed $8k for it...) with purple glitter paint.
I certainly can't make it any worse.