Update on Painting

Just a quick update on where we're at with painting the bike.

Items painted so far:

Frame
This has been shot blasted to remove any surface corrosion and general crud and then received a number of coats of zinc based primer to a provide a  rust proof barrier for the future. It's then been coated with satin black paint and clear coated to provide knock resistance. (picture doesn't show it painted, just primed)

Forks
Shot blasted, base coated and then sprayed with a hard wearing silver paint and finally clear coated.

Swinging Arm, rear shock and rear shock linkage
Both of these have been shot blasted, base coated and then sprayed with a hard wearing silver paint and then clear coated.

Torque bar
Shot blasted, base coated and then sprayed matt black.

Top and bottom yoke + headlight bracket
Shot blasted and then spayed with hammerite black smooth. These were painted with this paint instead of the satin black used elsewhere because of their exposure at the front of the bike. All stones and weather will hit these first.

Horn
I've covered this in a previous post

Brake calliper
Cleaned up and then painted with black gloss calliper paint. I'll post an article on the brake calliper at some point because it required a little work to get it back to working order.

Fuel tank
It took Andy around 6 hours to get all the green, purple (!) and silver (possibly the original colour?) paint off the tank. Whatever they painted this Superdream with was certainly tough stuff. It's now been primed and finished off with some very lovely bright red paint, and it looks fantastic!

Stuff left to paint / apply:

Side panels & Rear cowling
These still need to be cleaned up, but seeing as they are plastic they should clean up a bit easier than the tank (hopefully).

Get some replacement decals for the tanks and panels
Decals have been ordered, they won't be applied until the whole bike is back together just in case they get damaged in some way.

Fork restoration - part 2 - painting the legs

For the first part of the fork restoration go here: Fork restoration part-1 stripping them

The surface of the fork legs was looking very corroded. We decided that it was best to sand blast the legs to get all crap off them and then paint them back up. Andy fired up the compressor, got some sand and blasted the legs. Sadly I don't have any pictures of them after they were blasted but I do have one showing them being painted:

 (that's my parents garage aka Andy's spay booth)

and a little closer:

covered in primer drying off.

Once they were dry, we sanded them down with some fine (1200) wet and dry paper to get all the rough edges off them (thanks for your help James). They were then ready for the next stage of paint. Andy had some nice silver paint which I think is normally used on alloy wheels. It's a nice colour, works well on alloy and is pretty tough stuff so that went on in a number of coats.

Top job in the spay booth Andy!

After a couple coats of clear and this is what they looked like:

I know I am biased but I think they look fantastic. Stanchions next....