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Best Paint Finish for Girdraulics?
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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 165400" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>No one will see the terrible bodges inside your engine, but every mistake made with paint or plating will be all too obvious.</p><p></p><p>The choices when rebuilding, or having rebuilt for you, an engine are fairly limited. Irrespective of whether it will be your daily transportation, or only will be ridden on occasional weekends, most people want their bikes to go X-thousand miles before any major mechanical work needs to be done. Although those same people also want their paint to last X-thousand miles, for some of them half of those miles will be on salt-covered roads of the Midwest in winter, others in salt-laden air near oceans, and others in the intense UV and sun of the desert. Further, some people are happy with black paint from a rattle can, while others want paint whose chromaticity and gloss match as closely as possible the paint the bike had when it left the factory.</p><p></p><p>After investigating in a fair amount of detail both paint and professional painters (and having had bad experiences with several such "professionals"), I recently spent a lot of time (and money) constructing my own insulated, air-conditioned, air-filtered 6'×8' spray booth to do it myself. This includes a supplied-air respirator, gun, filtered and desiccated air supply, etc.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]54378[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That said, I have yet to actually paint any part of a Vincent so everything in this post should be totally ignored. I should add that, done properly, researching paints (which includes identifying all the compatible chemicals) takes considerable time. That is, unless all black paints look the same to you, in which case the job would be much faster.</p><p></p><p>My observation is that most professional painters have arrived at some combination of paints and chemicals (thinners, catalysts, solvents, etc.) that produce results that are "good enough" for most of their customers, after which that combination is their hammer, and every paint job is a nail to be hit with that hammer. The same is the case for people who have had years of experience running automotive paint stores, so you would have thought they were experts on the topic. However, since essentially all their professional-painter customers only apply clear-coated two-component paint, that's what they know. Is that the paint you would want on your Vincent? Possibly, but possibly not.</p><p></p><p>I'll be getting back to painting soon, so will end this post here, after having offered no useful advice whatever…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 165400, member: 2806"] No one will see the terrible bodges inside your engine, but every mistake made with paint or plating will be all too obvious. The choices when rebuilding, or having rebuilt for you, an engine are fairly limited. Irrespective of whether it will be your daily transportation, or only will be ridden on occasional weekends, most people want their bikes to go X-thousand miles before any major mechanical work needs to be done. Although those same people also want their paint to last X-thousand miles, for some of them half of those miles will be on salt-covered roads of the Midwest in winter, others in salt-laden air near oceans, and others in the intense UV and sun of the desert. Further, some people are happy with black paint from a rattle can, while others want paint whose chromaticity and gloss match as closely as possible the paint the bike had when it left the factory. After investigating in a fair amount of detail both paint and professional painters (and having had bad experiences with several such "professionals"), I recently spent a lot of time (and money) constructing my own insulated, air-conditioned, air-filtered 6'×8' spray booth to do it myself. This includes a supplied-air respirator, gun, filtered and desiccated air supply, etc. [ATTACH type="full"]54378[/ATTACH] That said, I have yet to actually paint any part of a Vincent so everything in this post should be totally ignored. I should add that, done properly, researching paints (which includes identifying all the compatible chemicals) takes considerable time. That is, unless all black paints look the same to you, in which case the job would be much faster. My observation is that most professional painters have arrived at some combination of paints and chemicals (thinners, catalysts, solvents, etc.) that produce results that are "good enough" for most of their customers, after which that combination is their hammer, and every paint job is a nail to be hit with that hammer. The same is the case for people who have had years of experience running automotive paint stores, so you would have thought they were experts on the topic. However, since essentially all their professional-painter customers only apply clear-coated two-component paint, that's what they know. Is that the paint you would want on your Vincent? Possibly, but possibly not. I'll be getting back to painting soon, so will end this post here, after having offered no useful advice whatever… [/QUOTE]
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