Painting frame on honda ns 125 help needed

[billybaggins]

Hi all, i am getting all the panels and tank sprayed on my 1989 ns 125f by a pro. but to keep costs down i am going to strip it myself and bring him the panels and then paint the frame myself. Now im not taking the engine out, or forks off etc so i want to paint it with a smooth finish brush paint. Anyone experienced in this field on how to go about it? i was thinking sand it down a bit to get it rough and add a primer, then the only paint i know of is hammerite smooth (red by the way), maybe 2 coats and then a couple of coats of clear laquer. Is this how its done can anyone confirm? or anybody any suggestions on a good durable paint which is better to use? thanks for any help

[clancy]

yeah thats pretty much spot on, rough it a bit with sand paper. 2 coats primer, 2 coats paint then laquer.

hammerite will do fine but you could probably get some better metal paint for it. but yeah, method is fine
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[Teflon-Mike]

You can get a frame sand=-blasted, acid dipped and powder coated for £40..... and they look brilliant.
Brush paint and it will look like tat, believe me!
I have been painting my trials bike frame with red smoothrite for twenty five years, one coat a season, pretty thick by now!
But that doesn't have to look pretty, and as I never intend selling it, dont need to worry about resale or anything, and smoothrite is slightly 'plastic' so takes the knocks and chips of being cucked down cliffs, with or without me still clinging to it! and is easily touched up.
But for a road bike, and one thats getting attension elsewhere to pretty it up, its a hapeth fo tar job, mate, and for the saving, REALLY not worth it.
Big tin of Smoothrite, will set you back £15, and thinners so it goes on and doesn't leave plughed field ridges of brush marks, andother £8, then the brushes, and the muggering about, you are only saving a tenner or so over getting it powder-coated.....
Which will look SO much better, and be a sales feature if you ever punt the bike on, and help it last longer.... red smooth on my trials bike has lasted becouse it gets re-done every season, remember...
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[billybaggins]

cheers for the tips. i Really didnt want to have to strip the bike down to the bare frame though so i think the smoothrite might have to do, do you mix it with thiners in the tin just?

[Teflon-Mike]

[outlaw]

do as mike says it will look well naff hes talking from experiance

iv seen some hidious exaples of that sort of stuff

strip it down take the paint off with a 3m paint remover on drill where you can

use nitromores on hard to reach bits


and get it diped and poweder coated or spray it if your any good at spraying

if a job worth doing its worth doing well

if you dont want to strip it leav it well alone

as it is it will look beter than if you do a naff job with a brush


dont sand the frame a 3m paint remover and nitromores with doit with out putting deep cratchs in it pluss it will take a week and a half that way

then i i wounld not leabv it very long bear becuse of surface rust and blow it with a few coats of etch primer

then som hibuild primer agude coat and then wet sand with 600-and then 800 grit

spray colour and clear coat but spraying clear is an art too get it nice and you need low humidity and above 10% to spay anything right

halffors rattel can suck shit if you must use rattel cans get some filled at you local motor fators

and warm the cans in a bole of warm warter to reduse spiting

sending off for powder coating would be the cheaped option and it better and a more durable finsh as paint

if it was painted right you really need to clear it with a decent two pack but that stuff is nasty and dangerous with out a air feed mask

some will spray with out or charchole mask but i wouldent i value my lungs better
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