Carbon fork repaint.

Hi all,

I want to respray a carbon fork, I am wondering if anyone has ever done any paint striping on carbon, what are the best options to do it, and what are the results.

I have check around and seems that with sanding the actual fork down with a thin grid, primer and paint should be fine.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

You wouldn't need to strip the paint to be honest. You could just key up the painted surface and paint that. As long as the surface has a good etch on it the paint will stick. I personally wouldn't risk sanding down and possibly damaging the carbon by getting a bit overexcited and sanding too much.

Yes I thought so too but with a thin grid I will get a bit of a riught surface and the primer will stick better isnt it?

400 grit dry for a decent key, paint it, then depending how good you are at painting so how much ripple you need to flat away 400>800>Wet 1200>polish.

No need for primer if you're painting on top of other paint.

No primer? why, wouldn't the primer protect the paintwork properly or I am wrong? Basically I will be painting over a well painted and lacquered blue fork, in black.

Primer is to make top coat stick to the original material and/or to help fill imperfections. The original paint will have had primer so you don't need more unless you take the original off.

I did something similar once. I just sanded down the decals followed by a few coats of rattle spray paint.

Nice, thanks all, I think I will do that.

Primer also helps the top coat pop better. It makes the colour reflect the light giving a more vivid look.