Side cover sanding

I read up on some old posts about cover sanding and Im not sure how much paint Im supposed to sand off. The Clymer manual says the color is part of the plastic--what should the cover look like once its ready to prime?

they will look plastic color (Black) if your paint does not have cracks in it I would sand with 320 grit use scotch brite in the hard to get places.

This all depends on what you're wanting to do, and if this is the first repaint or not. If this is the first repaint and the suface is in good shape, you're in luck. I lean toward using 400 wet as the final paper. One trick you can do to make sure you're imperfections are minimal is to buy two different colors of compatible primer. This is called a guide coat. Use only one color until you think you're ready for paint. Then spray a light coat of the second color. Wrap your sandpaper around a good paint stick on flat surfaces, or use a sanding pad on contours. Sand lightly until the second color is gone. Pit's or other imperfections will show as the second color. Use the first color to buildup and resand the places that need to go further. Again, use the guide coat method. Maybe this is more than you want to do, or I've totally bored you.

If you have more than paint job, at least sand until you get down past the second paint job, and do what I mentioned above

Good luck

Post edited by: turpehar, at: 2007/06/03 00:21

Sand off all the original paint down to black, then you can add whatever you want, and the great thing is repaint is really wonderfully flexible, meaning after repaint you can pretty much just wash it off with water. Tired of black? Spray it with a hose, it will come right off and go yellow, Yuk, but with repaint who cares as the bike looks like crap so repaint daily for daily crap looks.

Hey Ron,
I guess I don't understand your point. Are you saying that original paint no matter what the condition is always superior to repaints?

KZCSI

ron, your killing me! :woohoo: :lol: :laugh:
we all know your love of original paint and keeping your bike as close to oe as possible.
if that was the case, we would never change our tires or chain and sprockets.
not all of us can afford a mint classic.
(if i recall, the last one i wanted went for over 23k)
we all know where you stand on a repaint but please give it a rest!
i think the job that mark wing did on 4r's bike looks 10 times better then the factory job and people agree or he would not have won awards for it.

you are entitled to your opinion,but we don't need to hear it every chance you get.

thank you.

The first and second posts have you covered ignore the third one. You can use a flexible primer that you can get in spray cans. You can use it on non-flexible parts like the tank also.
Mark

RonKZ650 wrote:

Sand off all the original paint down to black, then you can add whatever you want, and the great thing is repaint is really wonderfully flexible, meaning after repaint you can pretty much just wash it off with water. Tired of black? Spray it with a hose, it will come right off and go yellow, Yuk, but with repaint who cares as the bike looks like crap so repaint daily for daily crap looks.

Ron's think about this new latex spray paint?

:lol: