Recent content by d9canada

About blasting - I switched from soda to bead blasting last year because the soda residue is a PIA. With bead, for clean-up you can just blow off the dust and prior to paint, wipe with acetone and you're done. With soda, if you don't really wash the part, that residue can remain, causing...

Does anyone know a current paint color (for example "90 Chev cherry red") match to Honda Candy Ruby Red (R-C4), Candy Gold (may be R-81) or current automotive color matches any other Honda colors. I have a big collection, with a fair bit of painting experience and I'm ready for color on a bunch...

Honda didn't use catalyzed paint, nor did they even clear over it. In fact they used a crude primer/paint combo on frames and the application was very hit/miss. If you've ever bead blasted a chassis even with a small home system, you'll find that frequently the paint on the underside of a...

Awesome response! Thanks advCo! I knew I came to the right place!

I'm aware that many people have used Rustoleum Appliance paint for motorcycle frames. I'd appreciate advice from people who've actually got experience using this product. I have a number of Honda 4s I want to modestly restore. So far I've stripped them down and power-washed each chassis...

Darn! I should have thought this might happen. Another thing you could do in future, and again, do a test piece first, but I think you could just paint the raw styrofoam with cheap latex paint and let that set up, then you could use Spackle or even Bondo. The latex should seal the styrofoam...

I should have thought of this before, sorry, but you could use "Spackle" (sp?) the drywall patching material instead of bondo, build it up, sand it. It won't attack the styrofoam and you can get a great finish on it. Then you can paint that. It's way cheaper than using epoxy and I wouldn't...

Looks great, even upside down! ;D ;D Markie, if you're using a Windows computer and have your pictures loaded there, you can go into File Explorer, right click on the file and you'll get options including "Open With" click that and you get a choice of several products to use to view your...

And now for my next trick - a word about fiberglass materials and absorbency. If you attempt to fiberglass something by wetting a surface and then getting glass materials stuck into it and then try to get the material "wet out" well and all air entrapment removed, you'll find that's not a...

Thanks to JPMobius and others for your thoughts on this. I didn't want to be the only voice because despite my experiences, like many of you, I am no expert. I do agree generally, for this project, making a mold is an overkill, certainly, much more expensive. There's one thing we did not...

Yeah, I never got around to saying "Kudos on the metal work" on your project. Very nicely done! As for a mold, yeah that's my comfort zone but it is not a requirement. If you go that way, look at the Tracy body mold I made and you'll see that making a part and cutting it up may not be the...

By all means, I'm no expert, just experienced, and I'll help if I can. And don't beat yourself up. I've seen more than once at boatyards where guys were pounding on molds with rubber hammers and stuffing thin strips of cedar between the part and the mold, trying desperately to get the boat...

Markie, I've done a lot of fiberglass and epoxy glass, including mold making, mainly marine stuff, but I don't recall ever trying to lay up over raw foam. We have used the blue foam as reinforcement in epoxy layups and it reacted well and bonded perfectly. And I'm not sure, 1 Is your plan...

1+ to Brotus, I'd get the hoop so you can be sure you can align the laterals and hoop. Also think about whether you want to stash electrics in a box between those rails and if so, make a cardboard mockup and think it through. Cardboard is cheap. But don't get "writer's block" - it's not like...

I'm trying to help a friend fix a bike he bought. I need to get a shop manual, prefer a download, for an 83 Honda 650 DOHC. Everything I've found online by Google is the crap where you have to enter a credit card number and sign up for a subscription, even for a free download.