ok so maybe I'm just a little over tired and excited, but gloss black trimclad is F-ing awsome paint!
its currantly 3:00am local time and I just finished painting my wheels. they're still wet but they look so glossy an nice. I can't beleive I'm getting this good of a finish from brush on paint. for anyone painting your wheels in the future, I highly sugest this paint!
pics to come when there mounted on the bike.
Foam brushes. This paint is awesome. It's now the morning after and there still just as glossy and beautiful. The paint is awesome. When you brush it on you can see the brush marks, but within 20 seconds it smoothes itself over and it looks like it was sprayed on. I'm going to be using the same paint on my frame and lower fork legs.
afew hints if your going to use the paint though.
First clean your wheels really well. Then sand your surface with 220 sand paper just enough to scratch the surface of the powder coat but not enough to remove it. Now clean them again really well using mineral spirits. Now is the time to mask everything you don't want painted really well (crush drive, disc, tires) now take a bit of trimclad and water it down buy 10% with mineral spirits. Use this as your primer, brushing it on really thin so your surface looks like crap. (It looks kinda like you spilt oil all over them) Let this dry really well. Now when you go to put on the second coat, make sure you clean the surface again to remove any loose dust (I forgot to so this part, it's not that big of a deal) Now paint your surface again with un-thinned trimclad. Now it's starting to look good! Set up a fan to speed up the drying time. After dry, you might have to do a third coat or touch up (witch is what I'm about to do now) Best part about this paint is that if it gets scratched or messed up after a mounth of riding, just bring out the brush and touch it up, no hassle.
Cool. Got pics?
Quote from: groff22 on April 13, 2006, 08:24:53 AM
Cool. Got pics?
+1
what kinda paint is it? what are the attributes? I'll be painting really soon. THanks :thumb:
pics should come tonight when they're mounted. maybe I'll snap a couple shots later today if I think about it. tomorro at the very latest becaues I have the day off. cheers :cheers:
What color did you go with?
Gloss balck.
I snaped afew pics before I started painting again this morning. they're really crapy but this gives you just an idea.
better pics to come.
pictures to not do them justice!
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b89/gimmeaname1234/SUNP0075.jpg)
Actually, that does look pretty good..
Really nice.
Should have used orange!
lol. I don't think that would go with my 'stealth' vision too well
sweet! I might go that route. the wheels I have for this project are white... :o
can you post a pic of the can/paint you used?
those do look really nice. I have seen many a brush on paint jobs that didn't look like ass. The key is to use as few stokes and possible and put it on as thick as you can without runs. It appears that you did a great job.
Wow... Those look great... Does it come in yellow? :icon_razz:
Quote from: RVertigo on April 13, 2006, 11:02:09 AM
Wow... Those look great... Does it come in yellow? :icon_razz:
thats what I was thinking, but not yellow.
have you guys actually never heard of tremclad rust paint?
you can get it at... well I got it at canadian tire, but I think you can get it at walmart or anyother automotive store
(http://www.rustoleum.com/images/canimages/product/ps_brand_tremclad_family.jpg)
and yes it comes in yellow
Cool BSD, Thanks for the pic... those are some hot rims!
Just a note.
When buying the paint you only need the little can to do a set of wheels. I think I only ended up using half the can.
Also, when you're in the store, looking at the paint, make sure you get the gloss black. They all say [ Black ] in a little box but you have to look at the pink stripe at the top of the can to figure out if its flat, gloss, or semi gloss. I almost bought flat black by accident so watch out for that.
wheels painted and mounted with my new race front end and sprot demons. holy crap! the wheel and tire combo looks awsome and the new front end fixes diving under brakeing. I have yet to put the handling charcateristics to the test. the bike is so much more nible now. the old tires where square so all they wanted to do was go in a straight line. the bike is way more fun now and I've only ridden it a total of 5 blocks. I'm going out to ride right now, be back with pics in abit.
Why didn't you take the rotor off?
Because they were either mounted on there with an impact gun, or really corroded on and the bolts were super hard to take out considering all I had was an Allan key and a wrench to use as leverage. Got half way through the first bolt and said F-it. I probably shoulda masked them off, next time.
dude they're on there with locktite...it would have looked a lot better done right.
I got a little bit of paint on the inside of the rear rotor; you can't even see it when it's on the bike so I'm not worried about it. And I don't think it was just locktite because usually you just have to break the seal and the bolt will come out easily when it has locktite on it. This was constantly hard to get out. I got the bolt so it was about half way out and the thing was still a bit<h to turn. if I was at work and had an impact gun I would have taken them off .
I think it looks really good BSD!!!!!
your right about that locktite on the rotor.
usually they hard to break and are easy to remove.
for pics check the post called "progress" in the General discussion
BTW... this paint in the states is Rustoleum. The industro-heavy duty stuff they sell @ every Home Depot etc. This paint's popularity has been spreading like wildfire in the past few months... I've seen entire cars on honda-tech.com (largest honda technical resource online) and they got it from a site where a guy painted his older domestic (the exact model slips my mind) and his VW beetle.
The key I hear is to not just paint it straight up but to use several coats of highly diluted paint. as in... 5:1 paint to mineral spirits. This will prevent orange peel.
(I think this is my first post on this board :) ) I will be picking up a GS this weekend and decided to find a good online resource. Any paint questions, feel free to message me. I paint cars as a hobby in the summer and to make a lil extra cash.