Respraying Hornet front forks

[GrumpyGuts]

Short story, but a very sweet one.

Oil needed changing on the front forks, but whilst I'm at it, I'll repaint them, too.

2 cans of Peugeot silver colour
1 can of primer
1 can of lacquer

All came to £15 from the local Asian automotive store.

https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j69/willyrobbie/IMAG0531_zps4aaa926c.jpg

Get that bastard wheel off

https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j69/willyrobbie/IMAG0532_zpsc1587c57.jpg

You can just about see the horrific paint scheme on the fork lower. The old oil was a nice blodgy silver colour and had a fantastic odor of fish...

https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j69/willyrobbie/IMAG0538_zps7f3d3ac8.jpg

Added the Nitromore paint stripper, sanded the leg down, then got priming. The Stella allowed us to fuck up the lacquer stage by maliciously spraying it to death. Soon sorted that out with an emergency coat of silver.

https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j69/willyrobbie/IMAG0543_zps6d91ff9e.jpg

Nice and silver

https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j69/willyrobbie/IMAG0546_zps20b82670.jpg

Looks ten times better than before! Fork protectors on order so should stop the road crud blowing out the seals.

Not bad for a rattle can job, eh?
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My Bikes: Lifan Beat 125cc '11 -> Suzuki B120P '76 -> Suzuki EN 125-2A '08 -> Honda CG 125 '04 -> Honda CB600F Hornet '98 -> Kawasaki ZZR 600 '99 -> Kawasaki GPZ 500S '95 (Current)
Theory test passed - 09/02/2012 >>>> Module 1 passed 24/07/2012 >>>> Module 2 passed 24/10/2012

[martyn107]

Nice one and good job on the recovery

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4% Stella

It's a travesty that they keep playing with 'normal' Stella and you loons encourage them by buying the 4% stuff!

[iMark]

How long did it take after removing the wheel?

Been sort of tempted to try this myself but may try Autosol first as my forks are looking a bit beaten
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K8 GSXR 1000
"G" : you got him to have a look at a forum which seems to have established a picture of an erect penis in a cat's mouth as it's mascot and thought he might consider it ok?

[GrumpyGuts]

[iMark]

Ended up going down the Hammerite route, bought 2 400ml spray cans, only used one .. lol

Outcome seems ok, still drying but I reassembled the bike hehe, should be fine!

done radiator side guard things to since i still had like 1/4 of a can left and they're a bit scuffed up
They are drying at the moment too

Either way, a lot better than they were before..
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/q77/s720x720/1176182_10153146228440075_1152632227_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q79/s720x720/1186261_10153146228465075_16219041_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q77/s720x720/1157733_10153146228430075_952727490_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/q79/s720x720/535386_10153146228375075_1816426318_n.jpg

The forks before hand, pic was taken over a year ago when I got the bike
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/223364_10152184010760075_223952901_n.jpg

Don't really have any pics of the radiator guards before .. but the had some scuffs on them which looked ugly!
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K8 GSXR 1000
"G" : you got him to have a look at a forum which seems to have established a picture of an erect penis in a cat's mouth as it's mascot and thought he might consider it ok?

[GrumpyGuts]

Look better don't they? Certainly gives you the satisfaction that you made the bike look that little bit better
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My Bikes: Lifan Beat 125cc '11 -> Suzuki B120P '76 -> Suzuki EN 125-2A '08 -> Honda CG 125 '04 -> Honda CB600F Hornet '98 -> Kawasaki ZZR 600 '99 -> Kawasaki GPZ 500S '95 (Current)
Theory test passed - 09/02/2012 >>>> Module 1 passed 24/07/2012 >>>> Module 2 passed 24/10/2012

[iMark]

Aye, Much better.. Actually prefer the radiator guards less of a shiny metal and painted, will see how they look in the morning when the suns out... I still have another can of Hammerite if they need another coat to even it out a bit better
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K8 GSXR 1000
"G" : you got him to have a look at a forum which seems to have established a picture of an erect penis in a cat's mouth as it's mascot and thought he might consider it ok?