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Od54
| | Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 - 02:57 pm: | 
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I didn't do the polishing on my bike, it was this way when I got it, but I'm pretty fond of it. |
Chasespeed
| | Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 01:56 pm: |
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Actually I was able to remove the powder coat with aircraft paint stripper...
Thats what I use as well... let it sit, and bubble up.. just do it in a WELL ventilated area... and use a putty knife to scrape that crap off, AND using chemical gloves...
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Gohot
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 09:56 am: |
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Aircraft stripper... thats good, the whole point here is to give a reasonable heads up to current products up to the task of removal of coatings from parts we have dreams of painting or polishing anew. While not for everybody, and yes if your going to "Ride" some shiny things can be a great hassel to keep up, with the need to clean and polish, but I guess the bottom line is that there are products to make the task relativly simple. Aircraft stripper is a bit more expensive if I recall, so that was my decission to use the cheaper gasket remover. Yes I have seen all black, or a host of other solid colored bikes, and yes, they inevitably looked good as well. W all like to have something a bit different from the 'cager masses' and different is good. My bike plans were to do a swingarm update, a fork update, 'pending' and the accesories, such as the can, derby, linkage etc. Would I polish the entire bike, NO. it's too much for me, but the fiew parts that I have, look really astetically pleasing to the total look of the bike. Now 'rat rod' to me means most often, a bike sort of put togather randomly, with a paint job consisting of krylon or rusteolium, and while not my cup of tea, it suits the owner. My bike looks far different than it did as a factory stock bike, and has a fiew common performance upgrades, alot to do with astetics, but valuable as performance enhancers. As long as there's motorcycles there will be customizations going on. Also theres a reason polished parts cost so much more, I have untold hours invested in my bikes from polishing aluminum parts, there are difficult to polish parts, such as the sand cast surfices, but heres a point in the same train of thought, my forks had a small amount of rock dings, small, but still able to be seen, polishing and a little prior wet and dry fine grade sanding removed 99% or it. Its little things that make the whole bike stand out promanantly again. Well, looks like its another good day to go out to the barn and dink with my Buell some more, it sure beats real work ! |
Damnut
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 10:03 am: |
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wow that reminds me of a baggermike posting. my eyes hurt.
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Koz5150
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 10:57 am: |
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Well, I just used a box of 3m sanding discs to remove the powder coating. I started with 80 grit and worked up to 400. Then I used a $20 polishing kit to finish the job.
Swingarm = 8 hrs I cut the tabs for the plastic wheel hugger off. Sanding was with air tools, the polishing was wiht my electric drill.
Fork lowers = 2 hours. I left the fork tube assembly intact bud did remove them from the triple trees. I removed the mounts of the dual disk set up for a cleaner look.
Triple trees = 2 hours |
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