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Now I gotta find ANOTHER day to be able to paint it the real colors.

I ordered some suzuku symbols/decals to add under the clear coat.

time to start cleaning misc parts and get this thing looking right!

Paint booth looks awesome! I just met Patrick recently myself, what a guy! My bike is a gas tank away from being on the road, and I'm looking to do paint on it and my tail, I'll have to find time I grab a beer with you in the near future and talk shop

I'm in Seattle, btw.

Bike is looking great!

right man of course. Once i do the next layer ill post those pics up. First time doing it luckily my dad has most of the tools and a little bit of experience.

The White Applied





The  white is looking good!



The only problem is we were getting orange peel. We sanded it down with 2000grit sandpaper to let it become smoother and all was well.



Until we saw this that is.

Wrinkle: incorrect flash time between coats. The prior coat has a hard, dry surface and the under part was still wet. New coat softened and wrinkled the top coat which then slid on the wet paint under it. Only solution is let it dry and sand it off. Prevention would have been shorter flash time or much longer so the stuff under it would have been dry and hard. Other possibility would have been to dust the next coat a few times before going at it with a hard, full blast of paint.

Temperature is a factor: too cold or not enough solvent and paint won't flow. Too hot and it drys before it has a chance to flow. Sometimes too much solvent and it bubbles out. Sometimes you just can't win. 

Did  I loan you "How to Paint your Motorcycle"? That covers orange peel, wrinkles and other problems in detail. If I didn't, you might be able to buy an on-line edition if you check Amazon. Or stop by and borrow it.

(Oh, and don't feel bad: been there. Done that. Sanded it all back off. and more than once, too.  )

Yea hate painting, and this is just 1 reason why ...
Cool.
Buddha.

problem fixed after reading the book addy

had another lil hole pop up with touching the paint accidentally with finger nail. but fixed it too

gonna paint these springs yellow. here is the black base coat

Looking good!

Quote from: The Buddha on October 30, 2013, 04:37:41 PM
Yea hate painting, and this is just 1 reason why ...
Cool.
Buddha.

I actually liked it!

once the decals and clear coat is on. next im going to start cleaning parts. probably bring over some too addy. get a clean and dirty bin going.

He he ... when you paint the shock I like to paint the spring and top eyelet the same color as the frame (silver/black/charcoal whatever) and the body collar and retaining clip the color as the bike.
I have a couple shocks I did. In fact I have a few shocks I powdercoated the body the color of the bikt (blue) but of course that means you need to have an openable shock ... katana, GS etc shocks wont do, GSXR and a few others ... I modded this bugger from an non openable open to an openable one. The KTM fork leg I got @ the junkyard came in handy for that.
Cool.
Buddha.

Let it cure before putting on a 2k clear coat. You don't want soft paint under the clear that won't ever dry out.
Take your time. Don't be in a rush.

the white coat has been on since sunday. We let all this week for it cure. clear coat goes on tomo!