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Nice looking bike Plastik. Any more photos.
Looks a bit like a Raleigh Clubman frame
Good eye, probably very closely related. It's a 1981 Carlton Super Course that was brought back from the dead. I managed to retain most of the original parts, but changed the colour from a pearly off-white to a candy red powdercoat.
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Good eye, probably very closely related. It's a 1981 Carlton Super Course that was brought back from the dead. I managed to retain most of the original parts, but changed the colour from a pearly off-white to a candy red powdercoat.
I love the candy red paint... Where did you get it done @Plastik and how much did you pay for? Did you sand the bike yourself or did you get it sand blasted?0 -
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The work was done out at Tallaght Powdercoating and was somewhere in the ballpark of €120-150 - I had work done on the original Carlton fork by Mercian in the UK, and it was painted to match at a later date which added extra to the cost. I started sanding the bike down but gave up when I quickly realised that modern Nitromors wasn't doing a great job at lifting the paint, so TPC sandblasted before doing the powdercoat. The finish is pretty good, almost flawless for anyone casting anything but a thorough eye over it, but when it's your frame and you're the one cleaning it down you can spot some imperfections. This is a fairly common Reynolds 531 frame of the era though and has more sentimental than monetary value so I was happy to live with them. If it was a valuable frame I think you would be less pleased, but then you'd probably go down the road of paying extra for a proper spray job.
I enquired because I've a Surly Cross Check with no value at all, but a sentimental one and i was asked 250 euro for a sand blast and a metallic powder coating here in Cork. Obviously a spray can would do a good enough job for a lot less...
I find the cost of sand blasting and powder coating insane in this country. In Italy, you get your frame sand blasted for 20 euro and powder coated in a standard RAL for another 45 euro. Total 65 euro...
I need a to buy a big suitcase...
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I enquired because I've a Surly Cross Check with no value at all, but a sentimental one and i was asked 250 euro for a sand blast and a metallic powder coating here in Cork. Obviously a spray can would do a good enough job for a lot less...
I find the cost of sand blasting and powder coating insane in this country. In Italy, you get your frame sand blasted for 20 euro and powder coated in a standard RAL for another 45 euro. Total 65 euro...
I need a to buy a big suitcase...
I got a frame sand blasted and powder coated in Carlow for around €90 I think it was but as said by another if it's a particularly unique and detailed frame a good spray job is the way to go. The powder coat tends to fill in all of the fine details and you do inevitably end up with a few bubbles in the powder coat in places hard to cover.0 -
Just past glencree, first non commuting cycle in a few years , thought I'd be more beat
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