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Dented 1000s tank restore

I thought the same thing but couldn't be sure. Thinking it is a "79" or "80" tank painted like a "78". It just doesn't look right.
 
Hey Chuck, if you sell it and get anything close to the amounts were seeing asked for here I'm going to request an addendum to my give away. Maybe you can meet me one day on your 1000S somewhere between Oklahoma and California and buy me a very cold, very tasty pint. Utah seems to be right in the middle but not sure they would sell us a beer there.
 
Got started on some body filler this afternoon. cant say when i will get another spot to do more but i am picking at it
 
Took tank to the paint shop today. Scanner easily pegged the white at a 3 which is almost perfection. The blue wasnt so cooperative. Best match the scanner could get was a 13 so they piddled with tinting some Ford Grabber Blue darker and darker till it was so close it was spooky. I remembered someone had mentoned the grabber blue so that was the start point. It was quite alot lighter than this tank so the experiments began till my ultra picky azs was happy
 
En8kTw.jpg Ive been up since 430 (went to bed at 11 ) so why not finish sand the last skim coat and give it a bath. Traced the original paint lines on so i have a pattern to lay some pinstripe down before primer. Im gonna prime right over the existing paint.. if its not peeling let it be primer!! Anyway, im gonna use a dark self etching ptimer on the blue areas and a lighter etch primer on the white areas. This will give me good lines when painting.
Once i untape it from doing the primers i will sand the ridge line, then mask off respective areas and start shooting colors. Then once its painted all thats left is sand those paint lines, apply decals and clear. So heres where it sets as of this morning. Larry, does my plan of attack seem solid to you?
It took a bit of patience and a lot of add a bit of filler here and there to get the curvature right and to "FEEL EQUAL" from side to side. The primer will fill in things a bit and should be all that much smoother when i lightly sand primer befotre spraying. Some dont recommend sanding primer if it looks good but i disagree. I think sanding just melds the base together very nicely.

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My opinion, after painting two different S tanks previously, is to first fully strip the tank. Including the underside. There is sure to be rust under the old paint, and clean metal is always the best foundation to build on. Second, an epoxy primer coat as a base, followed by fill primer as needed to level. There is no need for two different color primers, unless the top coat demands some sort of special base to achieve the color you want. And if that's the case, that would be a three-layer formula, which doesn't seem to be the case.

Lastly, I don't mean to sound critical, chuck, but your photos are the size of postage stamps! We need real PHOTOS! Some of us are very interested in watching your project, key word "watch", but those photos are just plain frustrating!

And, BTW, the position, size, shape, of the coloring/strips on the S tanks I've worked on (three different ones) were all different. The paint process at Suzuki was not an exact science; it's a fluid process, literally, and the strips fell where they may, so to speak, during assembly. I wouldn't fret on making them exactly like the old stripes.
 
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Well Ed i have tried all the photo size settings on my camera to try to get big pictires and i cant get any results. Ever since Frank did the latest " upgrade " the photos added to a post AND the sizing has been an absolute abomination. Have i ever voiced my displeasure before??? HMM. I only know how to post off imageshack. I have tried the options listed for linking photos but all i ever get is they are TOO BIG.

Whats needed for computer illiterates such as myself is a sticky tutorial on how to properly use those link things AND how to resize on the computer.. along with some size info for posting pics.
 
ED,,,, Every time i try to use a linking option i get the picture exceeds the limit of 2,00 MB so maybe that needs to be changed at the server end. Other than that im clueless as what to do about it
 
Chuck,
I took the liberty of creating an Image Shack account just to see if I can help you and others post better pics that others can appreciate more. You do such nice work, it would be a shame not to share the best images possible. Hope this helps.

See Video below. This is one way to get full size images to post on the forum.
It is also possible to put multiple images in one post. Just RETURN after you insert each image, RETURN TWICE to create some white space separation between images and do it again with another image before you click Post Reply. Imgur and Flickr make posting pictures easier by giving you a link to the BBCode. I found no way to get this code on Image Shack. With the BBCode, you don't need to use the toolbar image button on the forum, you just copy the BBCode and paste it into your post. I have a post linked in my signature if you're interested in using one of those free image hosting sites instead of Image Shack. Looks to me like my Image Shack account is only a free trial and they will want to charge me after the trial is up. That's not going to happen.

 
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Taped off the blue area along the factory seam lines and shot etching primer. I will peel off the tape and lay tape on the blue area and prime the white area. So what we have here is the blue area primed and tape removed. It will sit overnight and the white area gets primer tomorrow.

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