Tank Painting

[Thom]

Right, tonight i lashed a load of petrol all over my fuel tank, silly thing to do, i know.

However, it was purple, pink and got knows what else so i've decided when i get around to stripping the bike down to send the frame, swingarm and wheels off for powdercoating i'd paint the tank too.

Now, i'm taking it back to bare metal, going to fill a couple of small dents and then give it a few coats of some osrt of primer.

I then plan to do a white base coat, mask off two stripes down the center of the tank (or maybe one off side) and then spray it a gloss black with a couple of coats of this.

I then want to stencil on a couple of suzuki decals to be sprayed in white also, however obviously i'll do this before the black goes down.

I'll then seal it all with a coat of lacquer or two.

My question is this, i want to use nothing but rattle cans so which paints should i be looking at and do i need anything special to use as primer on the bare metal?

Oh and does my painting idea sound ok in theory?

Many thanks!
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Current Bike: 1996 Yamaha TRX850 (The Japanese-Ducati One).
Previous Bikes: 1990 Honda NSR125 'Rothmans' (The smoking one), 1990 Suzuki GS500e 'Caf? fighter' (The loud one), 1987 Kawasaki GPX400r (The quick one), 1997 XJ600s Diversion (The reliable one), 2000 Kawasaki ER-5 (The spontaneously combustive one)

[Frost]

I did pretty much the same thing with my tank a few weeks ago. cam out perfect and is very petrol proof!

P38 filler from Halfords
Halfords Grey primer
Halfords wet and dry paper
Halfords car paint
Halfords paint resistant laquer.

Notice a trend?

[tutton]

Personally wouldnt use halfords paint,
they dont have very good colour match to all over brands let alone when you go back in and ask for another can of same colour.

and if its bare metal you should be using a etch primer. or 2pack primer but unless you have a spraygun the 2pack isnt possible so etch!
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Past: '05 Peugeot XPS '99 Aprillia RS125 '94 FZR600R
Current: '02 ZX636 A1P '51 CCM R30

[TGR]

I found halford paint fine for painting

Heres a pic of my £20 respray of my Purple GS500 make sure you get the petrol resistant laquer .


https://img114.imageshack.us/img114/5771/gs500xz6.jpg
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1991 Kawasaki ZXR400L - 1999 Suzuki GS500E - 1990 Kawasaki ZX750R H2 - 1991 Honda CBR 600 - 2015 Skyteam Monkey 125

[Frost]

https://users.aber.ac.uk/mrb6/SRX/DSC00317.JPG
https://users.aber.ac.uk/mrb6/SRX/DSC00328.JPG
https://users.aber.ac.uk/mrb6/SRX/DSC00335.JPG

Provided you do the whole lot in one go the paint is pretty good!

[SoND]

That's some hole you've got there frosty.

How'd you make it and how'd you fix it?
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[Frost]

It came like that
It was fixed with a few layers of fibreglass and weve, then sanded, then filler, then more sanding and filler
t's now completely sealed, strong, and invisible

[tutton]

Just watch out for filler etc at bottom of tank,
mine was filled etc then 2 months down line i took tank off to find bits of filler floating in my fuel.
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Past: '05 Peugeot XPS '99 Aprillia RS125 '94 FZR600R
Current: '02 ZX636 A1P '51 CCM R30

[Thom]

Sweet results guys!

It looks like i'll go ahead with this then seeing as the results are very nice!

Just need some pennies first!
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Current Bike: 1996 Yamaha TRX850 (The Japanese-Ducati One).
Previous Bikes: 1990 Honda NSR125 'Rothmans' (The smoking one), 1990 Suzuki GS500e 'Caf? fighter' (The loud one), 1987 Kawasaki GPX400r (The quick one), 1997 XJ600s Diversion (The reliable one), 2000 Kawasaki ER-5 (The spontaneously combustive one)

[ZRX61]

Why waste the time stripping the tank to bare metal?

[Thom]

It's chipped, and dented and rusted all over the place, i want to do a complete restoration of the tank and the paint on there is very poor anyway, it just flakes off at the slightest contact.
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Current Bike: 1996 Yamaha TRX850 (The Japanese-Ducati One).
Previous Bikes: 1990 Honda NSR125 'Rothmans' (The smoking one), 1990 Suzuki GS500e 'Caf? fighter' (The loud one), 1987 Kawasaki GPX400r (The quick one), 1997 XJ600s Diversion (The reliable one), 2000 Kawasaki ER-5 (The spontaneously combustive one)