Randomly decided to paint a chunk of my bike today...

[Jack_Cheese]

Not sure if this should go in here, general chat or pictures, but here goes.

Had a random urge to paint my front mudguard matt black today. So i did. First thing i did was march down to halfrauds. 400, 800, and 1200 wet and dry went straight into my helmet (at this point being used as a shopping basket) along with plastikote primer and satin black. Both look identical, but figured i'd be proper about things.

Removing the mudguard. What an ordeal! The first picture of the mudguard shows it straight after removal. Those clips had to be hammered off the back of the bolts because the nuts were spinning in their housings on the other side of the clip. Finally got them off, though i had to resort to mole grips for the last of them.

Prepping - I took the good old 400 grit, a bucket of water and went beserk. You can never be overly-patient with the prepping, so i wet sanded, and left it to dry. Re-examined the paintwork, then sanded once more over the high spots, and any spots i'd missed. A couple of pieces of grit had got caught under the wet 'n' dry, too and left huge streaks. More sanding. More yet again with the 800 to get a smooth finish.

Painting - Meths + rag + elbow grease = paintable surface. I gave it a nice rub down with the meths then left it to dry. All of the garage was covered in newspaper, old carpet etc... I also made sure i draught-proofed the garade door round the bottom to stop the dust being lifted by the breeze. This also meant i was rather high. In these kind of temperatures, it's normally advisable to put the paint/primer into lukewarm water (if it's too hot for your hand, it's too hot for your paint can). This helps you to get a fine spray. Using a little spray gun adapter thingy i bought a while back, i started spraying the primer. I moved with the curve of the mudguard, from front to back keeping perpendicular and keeping the same distance.

Prepping Pt 2 - time for more sanding. This time i used wet 1200 grit and i rubbed very bloody lightly. Taking your time rubbing lightly is a hell of a lot better than taking paint off and wasting a hell of a lot of time building the layers back up.

Anyway, 1 more layer of primer, and 2 more layers of paint (sanding very very very lightly between each coat) and i'm done. And i'm pretty chuffed with 4 hours work!

I just wanted to put this in her so if anyone is considering spraying anything there's a wee little guide. I'm sure i could be corrected on how to do a few things, but i'm happy with the finish!

Expand the pictures to full size to get the best out of them, they turn even poorer quality when they're downsized by the browser.

Jack
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[instigator]

Your picturs are f*cking useless. Or it's my computer

Am sure the quality is good though...the paintwork that is.

[NSR Mick]

[Jack_Cheese]

Had to load em as .gif files due to the size. Humm, i think i'll try and rectify that little situation...

Jack

:edit: Expand the pics to full size, they're not nearly as poo!
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[Jack_Cheese]

Cagiva planet 125. The front mudguard is basically the same as a monster, but the retaining arms don't strech down as far.

I never thought a bike manufactured by an MV Augusta owned company could have such annoying retaining clips. It beggars belief!.

Jack
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[NSR Mick]

Grab yourself a copy of imageready (comes with adobe creative Suite) does wonders resizing images.
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[Method]

Ewwwwwwwwwwww

Cant realy tell if the paint job was decent or not,

Ive never seen that happen with pics before
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[fast_tzr]

Like he said just expand them to full size, you can see them fine then, looks like you did a pretty good job, though the primer and final result do look the same.

[owdamer]

What did you use to take the pictures? a box brownie?? a crayon??

[Jack_Cheese]

Sony cyber shot 1.3Mp. Not a bad camera, tis a bit old, though. It's because they're .gif files that the quality is so crumby.

Anyway, i replaced the shovel of a numberplate hanger today, and got some small indicators. Had to do some chopping and shaping to get it to fit, but it worked well, and i'm happy with the results I'll post some pics up later.

Jack
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[EuropeanNC30R...]

Looks like you've used paint to convert them to .gif's. Did the same thing to some of mine yesterday.

Sort some decent photos out, or if they're too big reduce the size. (easy to do in paint )

[nrml76]

Nice thread . Just the inspiration I need to get started on my top fairing. It's broken in three places though, so it will be a challenge to get it back to new. Where did you source your paint, primer and the spray gun adapter thingy, and how much did they cost?

[Jack_Cheese]

Paint and primer was from B&Q, just under £6 a can. The adaptor thingy i got from halfrauds cost about £1.99 or something - it really saves the ache on your fingers. What colour you doing your fairing?

Jack
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[nrml76]

Candy ligntning blue. TBH, It might be cheaper just waiting for one to turn up on ebay.

[Jack_Cheese]

Got the pics up on bikepics.com https://www.bikepics.com/members/jackcheese/ There's one of my tidier rear, and a photo of the front mudguard. the lighting is a bit poo, so i think i'll have to replace a couple of photos. The fuel tank is next for a matt-blacking!

Jack
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[McGee]

Good job and next time just upload the pics as jpeg's at www.imageshack.us its alot easier mate
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[Jack_Cheese]

Thanks for the reminder I noticed it on the morning i took those photos, but i've since forgotten (obviously). Did you have a paddock stand for yours, and if so - did you use bobbins, because i can't see any mounting points for bobbins at all!

I'm going to get some daylight pictures tomorrow, and i should be respraying my tank sometime later this week provided i can get it off because, contrary to popular belief, this bike seriously does not want to come apart.

Jack
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[palmer]

arent .jpeg smaller files + better quality than .gif?

[Jack_Cheese]

Got some daytime pics of my work on the arse end on bike pics. I had to cut the numberplate hanger down on the inner sliding part to allow it to fit between the holes on the end of the grabrails. I then had to file open the holes to allow the indicators to fit through. A few things fouled here and there, so had to be chopped and shaped, and the left indicator needs another washer going on the bolt to space it out. Looks 10x better than stock, though!

https://www.bikepics.com/pictures/545756/

Jack
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[airpig]

Wanting to prep and paint my fairings but wondering if have to get rid of decals first or just get straight to it with the wet and dry?

Cheers
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[NC30UK]

yes you do, the decals on factory paint jobs are on top of the paint, and under the laquer. You should sand through the laquer, peel off the stickers, smooth it all down, primer, sand, coat, sand, coat, sand, coat, sand, laquer.

[jonnay]

Nice tail

Just need them L plates refitting now, ey?
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