Painted Carbs

[Guest]

renobruce should offer up his services to do this on a full time basis. I bet there are a lot of gs owners who would be willing to have this done by someone who gets such good looking results.
Beautiful work mr. renobruce.

I am for hire!

Carb rebuilding and painting, and aluminum polishing.

As slow as my regular business has been, I'm always looking to make extra money. Lately I've even been doing automotive mechanic work...brakes, tune-up, clutches, etc. :-&

 

[Don-lo]

wow, stunning. Niceeeeeee job

 

[beingblueeyes]

I buy my SS screws locally from a place called Mr. Metric www.mrmetric.com, and also a supplier named Olander www.olander.com. But there are many others. McMaster Carr, as Bruce mentioned is a popular supplier.

I started using button head screws rather than cap screws. I think they look more like the original philips heads and still shows a little bling. See the red carbs for an example.

I liked what you did so much with the screws I did the same thing with black ones (I like flat black/black) I found them at Lowe's and got 16 of them for 6.72 (with Maine tax, yea I know they saw me coming) they really do look good and better in real life

 

[Tom MLC]

I liked what you did so much with the screws I did the same thing with black ones (I like flat black/black) I found them at Lowe's and got 16 of them for 6.72 (with Maine tax, yea I know they saw me coming) they really do look good and better in real life

Black is Beautiful.

I have heard that the iron oxide (black screws) rust pretty quickly. Keep an eye on that.

 

[Skyboy8950]

They sure do.

 

[Skyboy8950]

Reno,

What kind of prep did you do on the cross bar that holds the carbs together? They have some kind of coating or something to them.

Thanks,

 

[Guest]

Reno,

What kind of prep did you do on the cross bar that holds the carbs together? They have some kind of coating or something to them.

Thanks,

Yes, they have some kind of gold anodizing? on them. The gold will polish off on a polishing wheel. What I did on Joe's was hit them with a soft wire wheel, sanded, etch primed, and painted.

 

[Deivets Cetdar]

$ooo

$ooo

What doe$ that type of job go for?
Inquiring mind$ wanna know.
Or atlea$t my little 'ole mind doe$.
Deviet$ Cetdar


pm me if ya wanna be private about it.

 

[jwhelan65]

I'll let Bruce answer that, Im sure it will vary with condition and what you decide to do, hardware etc.

 

[Deivets Cetdar]

Actually...

Actually...

I kinda lo$t track of the po$t.
I wouldn't a$k a cu$tomer that que$tion.
That would not be right.
It wa$ meant for Renobruce.
$orry for any confu$ion there.
Deivet$ Cetdar

They ju$t look $o great. I am curiou$.
O.K. NO more $ a$ $'$ I Promi$e

 

[deemon113]

I kinda lo$t track of the po$t.
I wouldn't a$k a cu$tomer that que$tion.
That would not be right.
It wa$ meant for Renobruce.
$orry for any confu$ion there.
Deivet$ Cetdar

They ju$t look $o great. I am curiou$.
O.K. NO more $ a$ $'$ I Promi$e

Just curious, does your 's' key not work?

But anyways, nice job on the carbs. I have been wanting to do something like this on my bike as well. I may have to steal your methods such as the boiling. Just saw a set of carbs on eBay for my bike. Now I just need to convince the girlfriend.

 

[Guest]

What doe$ that type of job go for?
Inquiring mind$ wanna know.
Or atlea$t my little 'ole mind doe$.
Deviet$ Cetdar


pm me if ya wanna be private about it.

PM sent.

 

[salty_monk]

Yes, they have some kind of gold anodizing? on them. The gold will polish off on a polishing wheel. What I did on Joe's was hit them with a soft wire wheel, sanded, etch primed, and painted.

If they're the same as all the carbs I've come across that's a zinc plating with a yellow passivate (yellow is better rust protection that the BZP (bright, silver blue colour) you mostly see.
In theory you should be able to paint straight over the top for ultimate protection. Etch primer would probably work well on it I would think.

Fingers crossed we've hit the bottom of the slow down & things will start to slowly head up... I read that there has been a huge amount of liquidation of inventory globally that at some stage needs to be restocked. Here's hoping.

Dan

 

[jwhelan65]

With Pods...

 

[Bribird]

purdy!! Reno really did a nice job for you.

 

[oshanac]

RenoBruce-is that all rattle can? Freaking amazing! I just beadblasted a set of carbs I rebuilt for my bike and were going to just leave them alone. You have inspired me (US) to take they GS's to the next level

Also, what is the name of the black paint with the purposed wrinkles? Very different.

 

[Guest]

RenoBruce-is that all rattle can? Freaking amazing! I just beadblasted a set of carbs I rebuilt for my bike and were going to just leave them alone. You have inspired me (US) to take they GS's to the next level

Also, what is the name of the black paint with the purposed wrinkles? Very different.

Yes, it's caliper paint from a rattle can. The tops of his carbs are plastic, so I just cleaned them up and used S100 Engine Bright on them.

 

[jwhelan65]

RenoBruce-is that all rattle can? Freaking amazing! I just beadblasted a set of carbs I rebuilt for my bike and were going to just leave them alone. You have inspired me (US) to take they GS's to the next level

Also, what is the name of the black paint with the purposed wrinkles? Very different.

The stock tops are textured, Bruce just used a little S100

 

[Guest]

Those really look nice with the pods on them. I could look at them all day!

 

[Kcwiro]

GOSH.... that is SOME BLING... don't let me friend see this thread he'll want to repaint his all over again LOL