Recent content by KIKH400

I've put down a few coats of gloss black on the tank, and its looks pretty good. Not perfect or great, but pretty good. I'd like to wetsand the gloss black with 1500 before I clear coat wtih Spraymax. The 1500 should get the paint really smooth, and make it grat to perfect, but it'll flatten...

Read the whole rattle can bling thread. Hope I didn't screw up with the Rustoleum followed by Spraymax plan. Current plan is to let the tank sit for about 10 days in a 70 degree room for the Rustoleum to cure. I'd let it sit more, but the weather has gotten nice and I want to ride. Then...

OK, I did alot of sanding of bad paint off, reprimed, and did a few coats wetsanding in between. Looks pretty good except for some dust specks, but I think its the best I can do. So, how long do I wait until I spray it with SprayMax? The SprayMax has a potlife when opened of 48 hours, so how...

I wet sanded the primer with 400, 600, and 1500. Too much? I thought I should get as smooth a primer surface for the paint as possible. I painted the tail piece as the same time, and it came out fine so far.

I took the tank down to bare metal, filled the dents with bondo, and then sprayed Rustoleum primer and then gloss black.

Don't know what happened, but the paint in some spots on the tank just hasn't cured. Its been under heat lamps, in a heated room, and in some spots the black paint can be scraped off and looks like tar. I've heard and read about paint failures, and now know that they are a major PIA. I've...

Thanks for the advice. I guess I put the paint on too thick, and didn't let it cure enough. The tank is under heat lamps now, and I'm going to give that some time. If the paint hardens, I still gotta' take some off to get it fair and less thick before I try for a final coat. If it doesn't...

I followed the rattle can bling instructions, and have done the primer, color coat, waited 48 hours, and second color coat, and waited 48 hours. When I started to sand the tank, I found that I could dent the paint with my fingernail. After checking it out some more, the paint just seems thick...

After reading the rattle can bling thread (great thread-thanks), I'm doing a rattle can job on my bike's tank and tail. I figured I'd strip the tank, fix the small dents, and then paint. Well, she already had dents fixed with filler, and the stripper softened the filler and alot of it had to...

Is the appliance epoxy paint affected by gas? Good tank paint?

Thanks. Current plan then is rustoleaum prime and gloss black, followed by spraymax clear.

OK--I read alot of pages and may have missed it...so here's my question. My bike had a rattle can job that hadn't been clear-coated, and gas that had been spilled and that I spilled really screwed up the paint. I'm stripping all the paint off the tank and tail, and am going to repaint. If I...