Stripping paint and refinishing/repainting/powdercoating a bike

if you want to completely remove it nitromors will do it

thanks

how about removing surface rust?

how about removing surface rust?

There was an answer to that as well in my link... here.

Have you tried searching first?

+1

Nitormors, wire wool and a lot of elbow grease! About £4 from B&Q.

Just finished mine and applying my primer!

I used Nitromors on mine. The stuff in a green can. Its about £4 from B&Q.

My bike as silver. Apply the Nitromores to the frame a and the lacquer will bubble off. Then apply again to remove the paint. Takes a little time and some effort around the tight angles but it is well worth it and will take your bike back to bare metal ready to start again!!

My primer is drying as I type!

1 Attachment

I've picked up an old frame and hoping to remove the paint with Nitro Mors so thanks for the tips here.

The bike will be for the wife and shes specifically asked for a bike that no one would consider stealing, so I thought about letting the frame rust then clear laquering it.

Anyone tried this?

I stripped mine 6 months ago and haven't laquered it yet. The rust is growing nicely though and I'll laquer it before winter properly sets in.

Oh, 6 months is a longer than I thought about rust setting in. May chuck water over it over every night whilst its behind the shed. :)

Yeah, if you want it to go quickly then wrap some wet, salty kitchen towels over the frame and it'll rust overnight. Call me a pedant but I wanted the rust to be real(!) so I've just let nature do its work. My bike lives indoors so it's a slow process.

On a similar note, I have a pile of 1200 wet and dry paper and Autosol in my bag - doing some little bits and pieces - and I might, just might strip my hybrid and polish it up. What should I use to lacquer, and do I need to clean off the Autosol before?

BTW, that's a nice effect Tom; authentic rust all the way.

I used the aerosol spray Nitro Mors this weekend and I can safely say it was a fucking chore and hardly the 'paint'll just drip off' scenarios depicted here. Used the whole can and in the end was just using a shavehook to get a bulk of off but it was a good few hours to move a majority of the paint.

Having to go back and get the paint on stuff and hoping its more effective than the aerosol stuff.

The paint on stuff really does work, be sure to wear eye-protection as it is very easy to flick a glob of chemical evil into one of your peepers.

Ciaran artificially rusted one of his bikes using a rather mad scientist concoction that he came up with that included old batteries broken apart etc- I am sure he will give you a pointer on rust accelerants.

Cool. I'll tap his scrawny arse up for some info.

Urinating on the metal may help speed the process up.

if you want over night rust use soak a rag in vinegar and rub the frame down with it every hour for 3 or so hours... then leave outside overnight.

thats what i did with mine.... had a heavy coat of surface rust by morning, i then just cleaned it up a little with some wire wool.

Cheers Spag. Having seen this last night I'm all up for trying the vinegar trick.

I'm looking to strip the paint of a charge plug frame and chrome it up. What would the best way to do this be? What should I use to strip the paint? Then should I polish and polish the frame until it gets shiney? It will work right? I know its steel so.

Sorry about the jibbering. Cheers.

Once you have the paint off you need to polish the steel frame until it shines - no scratches at all - like a mirror. The chrome plating is not polished its get all of its shine from the surface below. First class chrome is a three layer process. clean and polish steel, plate with copper - polish, plate with nickel - polish, plate with chrome. I had a quote to plate a frame and forks recently £300

Ahh, thanks. That's expensive! I think I would rather just slave away in my shed thankyouverymuch.

Cheers.

for removal, permatex gasket remover is very effective at removing all types of coatings and residues.

it's nasty stuff though as it contains methylene chloride; wear a mask, goggles and gloves and use in a well ventilated space

hello there,
does some one know for a place or someone in east london who could re paint my bike?, it's a shopper raleigh twenty , also looking for fixing the front and the rear light as it seems not to work when pedaling anymore
please contact me

cheers !

Can I ask I have an old columbus SLX frame, im new to this forum how much weight will powdercoat add to the bike, I was going to take it to the local powdercoat place who did a rather fine job on my jukebox front grill, do you need to prime the frame prior to powdercoating it?, and is shotblasting the right way to go, please dont think im asking obvious questions but im new to this as I say Wayne

also the columbus is made of steel will shotblasting it be ok cheers