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doogalman
01-Jul-2006, 15:52
Looking at pulling the engine out this autumn to repaint the frame. So while the engine is sitting there was going to attack the flaky paint. Has anyone stripped the old and applied new paint, without stripping the engine down? What have you used as your preferred method? What tools did you use? How did you do it? whould you do it differently to the method you used ? and WHY??? Not after a pristine concours type finnish but just a non flaky refresh.
Your comments welcome.
aka.eric
02-Jul-2006, 15:55
Did exactly as you say with this one.Remove loose paint,feather the edges,make sure surface is perfectly clean,mask anything that doesnt need painting and use high temp paint.Scotch pads work well for cleaning/surface prep.
doogalman
03-Jul-2006, 20:46
Thanks for that . I'm doing other bits and pieces at the mo between weekends, but as soon as autumn is here the bikes being stripped and done. Still welcome others experiances.
aka.eric
03-Jul-2006, 22:21
When your at this stage,the cleaning/painting is easy enough.
aka.eric
03-Jul-2006, 22:25
Then everything else looks scruffy,so you end up doing the lot.!
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