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Painting plastics

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  • 20-10-2014 1:11am
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    cantdecide
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    Not really a car project but I have a plastic bike fairing that I've decided to have a go at fixing up myself.

    I've decided to do so having considered factors ranging from age/ general condition of the bike (and my long term plans for it) through to the location of the damage. The worst case scenario is that it comes out crap and I have to have a pro do it over at a future stage which is an option I can live with. I have some bit of knowledge and experience from DIY body/ paint jobs. I'm going to do this with aerosols. It is as much an experiment to see what kind of standard can be got from aerosols if you create the best possible circumstances.

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    In a nutshell, I'll be doing a simplified version of the paint and graphic combo you see here. Effectively I wish to paint the whole panel silver. When this is done, I wish to mask off the triangular piece and paint that red. Later, I'll get my graphics guy to come up with some simplified graphics. The pic shows the actual damaged panel I have but bear in mind I have found a replacement panel but in the wrong colour so I won't have to deal with the accident damage.

    I've spoken to my local paint specialist who was able to identify the aprilia paint codes. He told me that there is nothing special about the paint, unlike a lot of other bike paint which can involve countless coats of paints or tinted lacquers or the like. It's just ordinary base and clear coat.

    The first question I'd have is how I approach masking the silver base for the red- do I mask it and then scuff the red area? ie will the silver base be durable enough to endure masking tape being applied and removed without clear over it?


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    colm_mcm
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    Wouldn't it be much easier to wrap it?


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    cantdecide
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    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Wouldn't it be much easier to wrap it?

    In a lot of cases yes and it was my initial idea for a solution. However, in this instance I felt that the necessity for the red pain to match the adjoining panels meant that it would be easier to deal with paint only as well as giving a more authentic finished look without the risk of bulges, creases and bubbles that seem inevitable with wrapping, especially when this panel is more intricate than it looks in my poop quality photo.


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