I've worked in accident repair centres for 25 years,work for myself now if anyone needs any paintwork doing or repairs give me shout
Anyway, Time to carry this post on with some pictures. I've not been able to pull the bike out of it's little lair to take some pictures until today, as my appendix suddenly decided it didn't want to stay in me, and then I had to stay in bloody hospital all week ! (I wouldn't of minded, but my room was right above where the bikes park and all I could hear all day was bikes coming and going ) The pictures below are the paintwork on the bike at the moment, they've not even bothered to take the 'Smartwater' sticker off to paint it. Proper shoddy job ! After having the fairings off today to have a look at the bad wiring job, I found one had been repaired. It looks to be done well & is a good repair, there is another crack though so I will be repairing that myself. If anyone on here fancies giving me a quote for spraying them (I can get hold of the paint I think, + Could do most of the prep work) it'd be much appreciated ! http://imgur.com/a/ie5te - It won't let me embed the gallery !.
Do it yourself you are more than welcome to spray them in my shed. Using my spray gear Sent from my C6903 using Tapatalk
Yep, thought it would. I'm hoping the paint underneath isn't too bad. Might have to take you up on that offer one day ! I have a compressor & everything, but no where to spray properly ! Right a few more questions, before I nip out tomorrow to have a see what the paint might set me back. These are probably silly questions that I could find out by googling and searching, but I like to hear peoples opinions etc so will ask. What are the main differences between 2 pack paint and cellulose ? Which is better to spray with? Am I right in thinking I can key that paint back with some 400 grit, then spray with primer and just whack a few coats of silver over the top ? or do I require some sort of base coat ? Cheers !
400 is to abrasive, the finer you use the less ypu have to do for painting it, try it first with a scotch pad, you never know but that paint looks like it may well come off quite easily, if it doesnt then just try some thinners on it and see how that goes. if you're going to paint it yourself i've used a plastic primer that halford do, think they call it an adhesion promoter or something like that? have used it on all sorts of stuff and it works well.
Ah, Will try that then !There's a paint supply place not far from where I live that I'm gonna pop into and see what they recommend ! Cheers !
