Stripping paint and refinishing/repainting/powdercoating a bike

here's the situation......im broke ha ha ha

i just managed to get a reynolds 531 for 30squidaroons, good price and good condition....
the question i pose to forum types is:

have eny of you attempted/ tried spraying a frame youself?

how it turn out?

is it worth it?(well if it comes out well thn corse it is save 40squid)

and, any tips?

cheers Aidan

I would say get it professionally done. I painted one of my old bikes once...It took forever. To do a good job you need to sand and clean like your life depended on it!

if you want to spray it yourself, sand down the frame with some fine-grit paper and take it to the spraybooth at college. you'll need to put a coat of primer and then several coats of the colour you want. make sure you're not too close or the paint will goop.

it won't look as good as a powdercoat but if you're after a quick and dirty paint job, then rattlecan it.

how good do you want it too look concours condition or ??? i painted mine with hammerite it wasn't a picasso by any means but looked ok ? smooth finish hammerite sets hard and rust proofs

tin of hammerite 3.95

dicki, did you do your "dale???

yeah professional job huh !
nice illiteration by the way

yeah, wouldn't have know just by looking, gonna have do have a go myself
good job.

Just use tippex

I read that last bit as 'snorted'. Must just be a word association thing I have with 'tippex' (even though Aussies call it "white out")

scott not scot that's a good idea, except we'd have to colour co-ordinate. OR just make a mixture of every colour nail polish available in the greater london area, which would probably come out surly steamroller brown ha

just get a flesh tone crayola and colour the tippex in, works a treat. you then need to spray fixative into your nostrils to make the crayola colour stick though.

Interesting fact: the main guy in charge of choosing colours for crayola was colour-blind! he only admitted this after he retired, ha!

don't do it

You'll end up with an arts and crafts bike..

Brakeless - is that your new ride hippy?

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photoben Brakeless - is that your new ride hippy?

Yeah, only difference is I've swapped the tyres for red slicks and mine has a basket on the front..

wow didn't know you can use a door hinge for a headset. very aggressive geometry... those forks must be twitchy. disc wheels too. nice engineering there, reminds me of the lotus bike.
when are you taking it out for a ride hippy? bet you'll leave us trailing behind your dust.

looks like it's got plenty of horsepower and thats the mane thing...

a door hinge lmao

It's the red that counts.. red goes faster!
I reckon I'd have most of the skinny fsckers pegged on the downhills.. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ;)

Turd Fergurson here's the situation......im broke ha ha ha

i just managed to get a reynolds 531 for 30squidaroons, good price and good condition....
the question i pose to forum types is:

have eny of you attempted/ tried spraying a frame youself?

how it turn out?

is it worth it?(well if it comes out well thn corse it is save 40squid)

and, any tips?

cheers Aidan

Sprayed a bike with rattlecan black the other, the aim being to make it look baaaaaad. So that it wouldn't get nicked. Bad news was, it came out looking really good. So I failed. I though about gaffer taping it to make it look bad but I can't bring myself to! It looks really good now....

A tin of Nitro-Morse makes short work of most paint jobs. Don't wear gloves, it hurts like hell but makes you a man.
Don't get it in your mouth. Eyes would hurt too, but I haven't tried that.

Me and a mate stripped on of his bikes, you could read "Reynolds 531" one one of the tubes, written in small.
The braisings came out real nice, it looked so cool. I wanted to just lacquer it as it was.

It took us days to re-paint it with an old air gun. We sprayed it in his shed which was stupid but my choice, I later lost consciousness.

I never thought of using Nitro-Morse all those years ago. would have made light work of it. Although I now have real man hands from all that abrasive sand paper. My added advice though is pick a nice summer day to do it. it helps to get that paint baked on.

Anybody got any tips or experience? What should I use to strip it? What should I use to prime it? What should I use to paint it?