Today’s reflection……
- This topic has 7 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 7 months ago by .
- Posts
Here’s a very rare 1981 Harley Davidson FXB Sturgis that I repaired and refinshed, completed this past Sunday night (5/5/13).
Don, the owner is a good customer of mine. I’ve previously repaired and painted two 70’s classic Ducati cafe racers for him. Don imported this Harley from the USA and bought it purely based on description and photos because the seller said that it was in concours condition. Unfortunately, upon receipt of the bike, Don quickly found that the owners perception of what he defined ‘concours’ was very different to what concours actually is! So, Don decided a complete rebuild was in order. He broke the entire bike down and we had all the metal work including wheels and frame media blasted/stripped. The process revealed various dents and damage and some splits in the metalwork that needed to be repaired so we did all that. He had the frame and wheels HPC ceramic coated in satin black and I painted in the orange stripe on the wheel edges. I also did some other engine parts in direct gloss black (not pictured here).
The bike was then primed and blocked two separate times then painted in PPG Deltron D789 Jet Black and clearcoated with a MIPA CC6 2:1 high solid clearcoat with fast hardener reduced at 10%. I then let the parts sit for a week, we rubbed everything down to a perfectly flat finish, applied the decals and I then flowcoated the parts with another 2 coats of high solid clear (3 over the decals to lose the edge).
Believe it or not, what you see below is an ‘off the gun’ finish. It went straight out of the spraybooth and into the owner’s Landcruiser, no denibbing or polishing required (concrete floor side downdraft booth too!). The owner was completely stoked with the results. And I’m chuffed too! Now he has his concours bike!
Hope you all like!
[img]http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n19/simon-richards/image_zps50228dce.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n19/simon-richards/image_zps8f2f633a.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n19/simon-richards/image_zps54ce4d57.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n19/simon-richards/image_zps107f6dda.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n19/simon-richards/image_zps54642757.jpg[/img]
Looks mint :cheers
Plenty of deluded people about thinking they have best bike/car about I’ve a car here at min guy thinks its one of best around when in reality he has bought one of the most overpriced fibre glass reinforced examples out there :wakVery nice job , looks shit hot!
What kind of paint and clear do you use? Looks great!
Thanks for the kind words all!
Strawberry, the info was in my original post! 😉
[quote]The bike was then primed and blocked two separate times then painted in PPG Deltron D789 Jet Black and clearcoated with a MIPA CC6 2:1 high solid clearcoat with fast hardener reduced at 10%. I then let the parts sit for a week, we rubbed everything down to a perfectly flat finish, applied the decals and I then flowcoated the parts with another 2 coats of high solid clear (3 over the decals to lose the edge).[/quote]
Not sure if you also wanted to know about the primers I use, but I used Metallux DTM etch primer (from South Africa) and Mipa 4:1 Acryllfiller with 5% reducer. I love the (German) Mipa primer because in addition to it giving you a 300 micron build over 3 coats, it sands really well and doesn’t shrink back or map as long as it is fully cured before topcoat.
Sweet!! :cheers
Off the gun? Impressive!
[quote=”NFT5″ post=31925]Off the gun? Impressive![/quote]
Thank you!
I finished painting at 2am Monday morning, baked the job, left everything hanging in the booth and the customer came to pick the parts up at 10.45am. No polishing! It’s the cleanest multiple-part job that’s ever come out of my booth.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.