Okay i got a some brake second hand brake rotors, need a bit of a tidy up.
What is best way to go about painting them?
Just mask up the rotor and the floater part, and spray them with a rattle can? or is something better way of doing it?
The Ragin Cajun
Okay i got a some brake second hand brake rotors, need a bit of a tidy up.
What is best way to go about painting them?
Just mask up the rotor and the floater part, and spray them with a rattle can? or is something better way of doing it?
Forum whore
Scrub the crap out of them with prepsol before you start... with anything to do with painting, cleanliness is next to godliness.
The Ragin Cajun
yeah got that part, first part give a good clean up, bit of a scub to get rid of anything that is just hanging up before painting, just not to sure which best route to go with painting thoOriginally Posted by imdying
Forum whore
*brake calipers.
Hitcher will have a corinary if he sees this.
Shafty Bugger
well
I painted the xs's rotors recently
removed them , used a bench grinder mounted wire brush, and cleaned all the surfaces, then used a bottle type wire brush to clean all the holes, washed the discs down with thinners to remove any residue oils, dust etc.
gave them a coat of primer, three top coats out of a spray bomb.
replaced them back on bike.
OK, there was overspray on most of the brakeing surface, so i used old brake pads when reassembled, the went for a VERY SLOW ride gently pulling on the brakes till all the excess paint was removed. Thus cutting a perfect edge across the overspray.
Replace the old pads with new ones....done......$39 95 thank yoer much!
They still looke OK after 3000k so I musta done sumin right
To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.
Forum whore
Powdercoat = friend.
But powdercoat gets everyyyyyy where.
Local panel beater can probably do them for 50-100 / big box of beer for the boys.
I'm sure a resident KB panel beater would help ya out.
The Ragin Cajun
i am not painting the calipers, other wise i would have said that
i am painting the break rotor carriers, aka the parts which are often black, gold, silver which the main rotor attaches to.
akathe crome part is the carrier , where the other part being the rotor(part the pads acutally use to brake with)
Forum whore
Me thinks i'm going to like your garagewell
I painted the xs's rotors recently
removed them , used a bench grinder mounted wire brush, and cleaned all the surfaces, then used a bottle type wire brush to clean all the holes, washed the discs down with thinners to remove any residue oils, dust etc.
gave them a coat of primer, three top coats out of a spray bomb.
replaced them back on bike.
OK, there was overspray on most of the brakeing surface, so i used old brake pads when reassembled, the went for a VERY SLOW ride gently pulling on the brakes till all the excess paint was removed. Thus cutting a perfect edge across the overspray.
Replace the old pads with new ones....done......$39 95 thank yoer much!
They still looke OK after 3000k so I musta done sumin right
i'm motarded
pot, kettle?
you can take the disc of the carriers
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Shafty Bugger
Dang these fancy modern bikes with their tricky flash parts
only got the old one piece steel rotors on mine,
guess thats the price of ridding an old reliable bike
still I guess the same principile could apply
But if you can spend a bit of money, what skidmark said about powder coating would do the job real well.
To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.
Forum whore
i'm a kettle...^^^
How the heck do ya take em off they have thems rivety thingmawotsits.
i'm motarded
be careful if you powder coat these, the disk still needs to "float" on the carrier.
fucked if i know how they do it, but i know places like freddies disc's etc do it because they use your old carriers.
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