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Cleaning and Painting Parts

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Indyjoel

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Hi

my storage place leaked and brown water marked most items.

Any good way to clean them.

I have tried to use WD-40 and carb clean on a piece and seems ok.

What sort of black paint is best to use to paint these now?

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Personally, I'm in the middle of a strip-down and rebuild myself. I'm going to use semi-gloss high-temp black for the fram and misc. items. For the body pieces and tank, I'll use Rustoleum, since it contains fish oil, and repels petroleum products, like oil, gas, etc.

FYI, for the tougher to clean parts(IE: motor, oil pan, etc), I just get some carb dip on a toothbrush or utility brush and scrub the grime out.
 
Simple green to clean is great.
I like to rub my parts down with alcohol before I paint being sure not to leave any cleaner or body oil on anything I am going to paint.
I would use caliper paint on those parts do not know if that is necessary, but thinking It would hold up better then reg paint including on levers.
Though my reservoirs do not need paint I am trying a chrome paint on them just for looks and the chrome is not looking like chrome but I do like the finish.
Bike not fully reassembled yet so I do not know how well the chrome is going to hold up yet.
The chrome has primer under it but not the caliper paint.
Do not know if that is the proper paint for the parts but makes sense to me :)
 
Crankthat said:
Simple green to clean is great.
I like to rub my parts down with alcohol before I paint being sure not to leave any cleaner or body oil on anything I am going to paint.
I would use caliper paint on those parts do not know if that is necessary, but thinking It would hold up better then reg paint including on levers.
Though my reservoirs do not need paint I am trying a chrome paint on them just for looks and the chrome is not looking like chrome but I do like the finish.
Bike not fully reassembled yet so I do not know how well the chrome is going to hold up yet.
The chrome has primer under it but not the caliper paint.
Do not know if that is the proper paint for the parts but makes sense to me :)
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I would follow the above advice, but anything that you do to those parts should improve them.
 
Wow. I am as lazy as the next person.

I tried WD-40, Carb Cleaner, Thinner bath etc etc

Then I thought "Hang on, we have a glass bead booth at work"

WOW what a difference. Next up a coat of black acrylic and lets see how they look.

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This is what I used for my black mirrors...
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I used the bumper coating on the left-Dupli-color
 
Indyjoel, you mught want to consider using epoxy paint. It's glossy and is tough as nails when it cures.
 
Indyjoel said:
I will go and grab some black epoxy now. Will post photos in a couple of hours
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Sorry for these dumb questions. I just went to a couple of stores and could only find Acrylic in the old spray cans.

Can you get epoxy in a spraycan or do i need to get the spray gun out?
 
cleaned the part with paint prep. Sprayed it and ooops stuffed it.

got runs, and didn't look good.

Cleaned with Acetone and will try later.
 
Large quick sweeping motions, start spraying before part and do not stop until past part.
I will make a couple of passes to hit any areas I may have missed then wait until recommended time for next coat.
The can should tell you how long to wait before next coat.
Will heat up parts before first coat in the oven sometimes low heat until warm depending on the part. No plastic or rubber seals
The less humid outside the better.
 
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