Went to the paint shop today, EXPENSIVE!

$85 for a quart of Paint!?
All i neede was a Pint though and the Primer, Hardener and Paint with clearcoat was going to be $105 for the cheapy stuff.

So I got some etching primer, Primer, some bondo squeegees & aircraft stripper from there instead.

then I headed to my brothers and got some dark green (forestlike) with Pearl & metalflake. Wont know the outcome until it dries. Photos after its done. He also lent me his backup spray gun too, NO WAITING!

Now off to scrub, fill, spray, sand Spray, sand pound cuss at and whatever else happens while spraying the body parts.
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The "Mahogany Pearl", a sort of DEEP Maroon, acually,... that I shot mine with 2 seasons ago was $92/qt.
I feel (felt)your pain!!!!!

Since my front fender was in bad shape, I just took it to Bare metal in 5 (about) minutes with aircraft paint stripper. Dang that stuff is evil.:ohmy:

So after the aircraft stripper does its job, do I have to wash with sapy water or just rub it down with a chemical soution?

Its not saying on the can.

ran429 wrote:

Since my front fender was in bad shape, I just took it to Bare metal in 5 (about) minutes with aircraft paint stripper. Dang that stuff is evil.:ohmy:

Did you have any bondo on the tank, and did the stripper eat the bondo? I have a tank I want to strip down (many layers of bad paint), but the Kawasaki badge holes have been filled in quite nicely, and I do not want to have to redo them. Maybe I could cover that area with tape, then use the stripper on the remainder, clean it off, then remove the tape and sand/feather the badge area to blend the surface before I spray. Waddayathink?

ran429.....wash with soapy water, dry thoroughly!!! Wipe down with a pre-paint cleaner (grease/wax remover, prepsol...equivalent). Then get a GOOD tack rag and do a wipe with it before shooting color.
Good luck!
apeman......I "think":whistle: :rolleyes: most strippers would eat thru masking tape, gaffer tape, prolly even duct tape. I'd test your theory on a scrap piece of something before the tank. But let us all know one way or another.......

apeman: use a random orbital sander with some 60g paper to strip the tank

apeman wrote:

ran429 wrote:

Since my front fender was in bad shape, I just took it to Bare metal in 5 (about) minutes with aircraft paint stripper. Dang that stuff is evil.:ohmy:

Did you have any bondo on the tank, and did the stripper eat the bondo? I have a tank I want to strip down (many layers of bad paint), but the Kawasaki badge holes have been filled in quite nicely, and I do not want to have to redo them. Maybe I could cover that area with tape, then use the stripper on the remainder, clean it off, then remove the tape and sand/feather the badge area to blend the surface before I spray. Waddayathink?

There is bondo on the tank, but All i have gotten done is the prep for the fender. I got a ton of supplies today at the paint shop (brothers van) he even let me borrow his backup gravity sprayer, i had to use the random orbit on the fender after stripping the paint anyhow, it had alot of little rust spots starting to grow on it so I sent them on their happy way. got down to a 220 grit paper and now I am going to prime it with acid primer to make it adhere, then cover it fully in regular (expensive as crap) primer my brother made me take.

I had a major dent in the fender so I had to fill it today as well, good thing i had a 500 watt lamp to heat it enough to harden.

Final color will be : OEM 6J7 Toyota, Green Metalic by Omni paints.

Free is Free ya know and being on a budget here I wont be Picky, and besides, its a cool color i think.

should be close to this faceplate in the photo.

Randy,that so KOOL,Bud!!
You're going to have a celphone molded right into Your TANK?...WOW!!...Whoda thunk it?!!:laugh:

Post edited by: wireman, at: 2006/03/15 01:24

LOL sandy !

I was speakin of the color on the crappy phone cover only. HEHEHEHE!

The COLOR should match closely to the color on the faceplate. You very funny guy!

Post edited by: ran429, at: 2006/03/15 12:02