its a slow process mate evry slow some timesOriginally Posted by RevHeadPete
its a slow process mate evry slow some times
Thats looking cool, make your own brackets.
"I call it a Camberwell carrot as I invented it in Camberwell and it looks alot like a carrot"
yeah been looking around i have some reallt nice light gauge flat ally here so might just do that . thanks heaps guys
Well Done Kev looks a good unit
ok guys picked up a bandit today thats kinda fightered , its got WP suspension bars polished rims and thats about it so far , i have some cool stuff , the bike runs really well needs some TLC but its a good unit , the tank is going to PAV to be repaird later
ok this is what ive started with
and this is kinda what im aiming for but with my own flavour
getting there real slow , off to the hardware store for flat ally tomorroe then its off to the workshop to get stuck into it
why dont you bring that tank up to me kev let me have a crack at it may save you buying another one and the challenge of a big dent like that one would be cool
Ok Steve will get it off to ya ASAP
ok steve can ya repair rust in the tank ?? might be easier just to get one from a wrecker dude i have the colour sorted out
ok guys who knows a snadblaster and powder coater in sydney thats actually any good ??
Ah pete im in sydney and have repaired a tank very similar to that before, if you dont wanna take if up the coast i can help you out with the tank if you want.
Brookvale sand blasters are good and Brookvale powder coaters are supposed to be pretty good as well, i havn't used the powder coaters before but the sand blasters yes.
I prefer to paint rather than powder coat.
ok damo1 is paint better than powder ?
if you mean powder on the frame i have never done it have always painted so dont know the difference in wear factor ,paint is easier to repair as for rust in tank you can reseal the inside but a good one to start with i think would be better ,so when are you going to let me in on your choice of colour.
Ive always been told that powder coating is porous, so you will always start to get spider viens of rust under it
eventually.
The other way to do it if you really want powder coated colors is to 2k clear over it once it's done and it will seal it, but that sort of defeats the point of powder coating because you are painting it anyway so you way as well just put down a color you want and clear it.
So to answer your question i feel that 2k painted finished is better than powder coating, in my eyes its also a much better finish- you can't build depth with powder coating full stop , you can with paint and clear.
Coming along nice kev
Ladies and Gentelmen, take my advise. "Pull down your pants and slide on the ice."
Powder coating isnt porous , if done correctly it is far stronger and impervious than enamel paint. But if done poorly its can be thin in one area think in another and have bits compleatly missing. The biggest prob with powdercoating on frames is the strength of the shit, if your frame develops a crack somewhere the powdercoating can mask it till it is quite large (where paint will also generally crack making the crack easyer to find)
About 15 years back making racing sidecar frame with a mate , using renolds 355 (chromemolly, but easyer to weld can be prone to cracking though) he powdercoated it to bling it up , found out the hard way it can hide a crack lol.
After that he nitrogen charged his frame and run a pressure gauge if it went down he went over the frame real good. Besides paint is lighter !
ok well the GO is i will be painting the frame and subframe
Kev respond to my PM please
I can handle pain until it hurts.
i responded to it telling you what was happening it will be shipped aust post monday please read your PM's
ok we have the front headlight brackets sorted out and all i need is a spacer kit for the rear sets and thats all done
i have to finish off the subframe welding , the its strip down for paint , the paint will be black / blue and silver with polish parts as well now i have settled on the colours and what needs to be do its just getting time to do it , i know this is a slow build but i know the end will result in an awesome bike
cheers guys , special shout to BANDITROD you have been really helpfull from the sidline mate and i really apprecaite your time and your opinion as well
Last edited by kev@vcm; 15-05-2012 at 03:26 PM.
happy to help where i can Kev looking good btw
Glenn Eason drinks and smokes and lends his arse to other blokes
like anything its getting there slowly rod but my god its going to be a fun build
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