Respraying

My bodyshop is in Harlow, Essex. But i split my time between london and essex - so i can collect/deliver parts within London.
I take lot of pride in my work and am happy to discuss your ideas.

I spray things like this too:

sprayed this with a matt clearcoat. ultra fine gradient:

Somebody mention custom paint?
http://www.deathspraycustom.com/

sprayed this with a matt clearcoat. ultra fine gradient:

Thanks for posting samfish, we'll await with interest to see some frames painted for us forumengers. This mega gradient could be tasty end to end.

You mention 2Pack being tougher than wet paint. How does the process differ from stove enamel and powder coat? Can you mask chroming to save, and paint contasts on tubes, forks or lugs? I've heard powdercoating* can* be a bit hit and miss in that kind of work (though that may just depend on the painter, I don't know).

Cheers

DSC: nice work too. I love that Giro in icy blue. Keep us posted on your bike sprays please.

2pack is the same process as normal wet spraying, except you mix a catalyst in with the paint before you spray, this makes the paint dry far quicker, and gives you a much more durable finish.
it works the same as a 2 part resin.
most modern production cars are finished with 2pack paint.
the only downside is that it is far more toxic than single pack paints, you are required by law to have a respirator/helmet with it's own air supply.

...as spagettihoops said.
Nice work by DSC. You using 2pac too? 1K with 2K clearcoat? Alot of work goes into a frame like that. Burying the metal flakes in clearcoat for a start...

An advantage of 2pack is that it can be polished back to a high gloss if it gets scratched.
If the paint is thick enough you can carefully rub out a scratch with 1500 wet and dry and polish-up.
Small localised repairs can also be resprayed and polished in with the rest of a panel, creating an invisible repair.... not possible with a powdercoat.

@ samfish Yeah i use 1k paint and 2k clear, I use a lot of mid coat clear to protect. Is that your shop? I might have some car work I can send your way, will email you later dude

DSC, Im working from my Dads premesis. Cheers for that, although Im trying to steer away from automotive as I dont find it as interesting - I did fine art originally and panelwork can be quite dull. im sure you know what i mean.
An email would be good anyway: samfishy@googlemail.com
Nice work with the site, great eye for detail bro.
Fish

This looks much better than a spray job I did once... how many coats did you do? How long did you leave it to dry? and did you use a clear coat to seal?

love... hate is a great idea

This looks much better than a spray job I did once... how many coats did you do? How long did you leave it to dry? and did you use a clear coat to seal?

Are you really comparing a home spray job to a professional one?

No. I am not. But I tried spraypainting a frame once and it looked pretty bad. At least the one above looked a lot better than my attempt

(sorry, couldn't help myself)

hmm, I am planning a respray, doing it myself, luckily for me, we have a set of spray booths at uni, cleanroom style for design modelling... We use the automotive grade paints and clearcoats... well looking forward to it... got to get a frame first... :p

im about to respray my raleigh wayfarer and there are two chrome caps on either side of the forks at the top.

i was thinking about using vaseline to cover them then just wiping it clean after
any one tried this before?

Maybe wax might be more accurate.

cheers.
sprayed it now.
a few little spots but nothing a small bit of sanding wont sort out.

Someone mentioned about spraying carbon earlier in this thred, i heard that normal spray paint reacts with the epoxy in the carbon and the carbon will start to delaminate is this just an old wifes tail to get you to have it done professionaly, im not to bad at spaying and was keen to have a go at my carbon frame but was put of by what i had heard. Maybe a special type of paint is used? anyone any ideas.

Someone mentioned about spraying carbon earlier in this thred, i heard that normal spray paint reacts with the epoxy in the carbon and the carbon will start to delaminate is this just an old wifes tail to get you to have it done professionaly, im not to bad at spaying and was keen to have a go at my carbon frame but was put of by what i had heard. Maybe a special type of paint is used? anyone any ideas.

I would advise against spaying any frame, specially a crabon ;)

Spraying Carbon is absolutely fine. They are clearcoated from the factory most of the time.
Thought I would share some more pictures of paintwork :)

I have been spraying some 'chrome' too - which can then be tinted. A few samples below.
The paint is amazing stuff - very strange - Very expensive.

I have made a few Carbon fibre pieces too, and am just about to buy a 'Lorch' AC/DC Tig welder for making aluminium components - Mainly for Artists and props, but also some Motorsport pieces.

Frame painting prices start at £180.
For that you will get a very personalised service, and a show quality finish.
Regards
Sam
samfishy @ gmail.com

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