Builds 3 days and 3300 miles later (22 Viewers)

[buckroseau]

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[beaufort-fj60]

do you ever have any drips or orange peel when painting. Looks like you lay the paint down light.

 

[buckroseau]

do you ever have any drips or orange peel when painting. Looks like you lay the paint down light.

I have runs every once in a while, but not to often. Not that big of deal to sand out with 1500 grit and buff out. As far as orange peel, not really either....maybe a little, but I sand out to 1500 grit the day after clearing and then buff, so it looks perfert either way.

As far as light on the paint...I would say I am far from that. I lay primer, base and clear on fairly heavy. So far had pretty good luck not running it all over the floor. As far as any runs, that usually occurs when it is -30 below out and it gets to cool in the booth. Orange peel usually occurs I believe when the clear drys to quickly and doesn't get enough time to flow out on the surface....I very rarely have a, "drying to quickly" scenerio.

Matt

 

[buckroseau]

Looking good Matt. Are you going to have it ready in time for Cruise Moab??

I'll probably have it ready...but, not sure if I'm going to be. With only a few weeks to cruise Moab I'm probably going to be a chick sh-t about driving across the country in this thing.

It probably would make it just fine...but there is that chance it might have couple bugs in it after taking everything apart and putting it back together?? We'll see how it goes the next few weeks ;p

Matt

 

[beaufort-fj60]

I have runs every once in a while, but not to often. Not that big of deal to sand out with 1500 grit and buff out. As far as orange peel, not really either....maybe a little, but I sand out to 1500 grit the day after clearing and then buff, so it looks perfert either way.

As far as light on the paint...I would say I am far from that. I lay primer, base and clear on fairly heavy. So far had pretty good luck not running it all over the floor. As far as any runs, that usually occurs when it is -30 below out and it gets to cool in the booth. Orange peel usually occurs I believe when the clear drys to quickly and doesn't get enough time to flow out on the surface....I very rarely have a, "drying to quickly" scenerio.

Matt

My paint skills stink, I'm way to impatient to put paint down properly. So anything better the mine looks great. I guess what I was trying to say with light, is your edges look light or feathered. My impatient lay it down heavy method leaves "hard" edges.

 

[buckroseau]

About 8 hours today on the lpb if you included about 3 hours in transit time.

Started on the day at 6:30 am by heading to the muffler/exhaust shop. After a couple hours there...he was done. Took a couple pics, extremely happy with the job he did. Nice and clean from front to back and tucked up nice and tight.

Headed back home and talked my mechanic buddy into giving me a hand with 3 brake lines that need to be made up. After a couple hours at his place (no pics, sorry) we had all the new lines fitted up and the brakes bled out......so now I have brakes again.

Trailered the lpb home after that and un-bolted a couple parts off the lpb that need to still be painted. Took a photo of some stuff that needs to be either blast and painted. Probably tackle that job tomorrow. I need to get the kick vents primed and jambed on the inside so I can get those installed and then the entire rig is ready for wet sanding and paint.

Matt

 

[buckroseau]

About a lazy 6 hours on the lpb today....really didn't try to hard.

Started off by blasting all those parts that I took a pic of in the bed last night. After that, hung all of them up in booth and shot a couple coats of DP50LF on them. Kinda screwed around a bit on the truck for an hour or so with misc. little stuff while primer was drying. This evening I just shot a couple coats of single stage ureathane that I had mixed up at the auto parts store about 2 months ago. It was a yellow for the jack and handle crank(s) in the truck. It was the closest thing I could get..I think it lookes pretty factory after I shot it.

Hoping to shoot base/clear tomorrow night and all the other parts. Then hopefully can get those kick vents installed on Wed. or so.

Matt

 

[nuclearlemon]

....really didn't try to hard.

dude...you tried a helluva lot harder than i did. today, i sat on my butt in front of the tv watching movies and drinking. kinda betting i'm not the only one that did diddly squat to their rigs today.

this is really getting sad. you're going to have two beyond showroom rigs done before i get one rig even running.

 

[buckroseau]

About 2 hours tonight on the lpb.

Majority of my time was spent shooting color on the remaining parts in the booth and then clearing. Took a few photos of that. Spent a little time on some other stuff. Took out all the bolts on the bed, so that's ready to be removed again for painting.

Hoping to get the kick vents installed tomorrow. Depending on the weather I would like to try to wet sand on Friday. I like wet sanding outside since there is so much water flying and it's kinda mess. See how it goes I guess.

Matt

 

[James w]

Wow, i just read the whole thread. I don't visit the 45 section to often Your work is incredible. Can't wait to see it done!

 

[buckroseau]

11 hours on the lpb today....8 of them wet sanding.

It was a really nice day so I had the truck outside while I wet sanded. Went good, just took all day to do it. I had my neighbor come over and help me lift the box off and back onto the stand so I could wet sand behind the cab. After I was done sanding I wheeled the box and backed the truck into the booth. Spent about 3 more hours back taping this evening. Still have a couple more hours of taping to go, but plan on starting again the morning. I remember seeing my body man buddy using some rope one time around weather stripping before he painted. I used some 1/4" nylon rope and pulled out the weatherstripping and stuffed it behind there. Allows the paint to get in behind the weatherstripping vs up against the edge of the weatherstripping.

Anyway...few pics of todays fun.

Matt

 

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[buckroseau]

Ok....about 7 miserable hours on the lpb today

The plan was to get up this morning, finish taping and start shooting base. Well...the finish taping and shooting base happened but...ran into some major problems on shooting the base. As soon as I started shooting the first coat I had some MAJOR fisheye's all over the edges of the front fender's and 1 of the rear quarters. I don't know what the hell got on there, but wet sanding and scrubbing the entire vehicle down with water and a scotchbrite pad the day before obviously wasn't enough to get off what was ever on there.

So..then I had to wait about an hour and wet sand out the fisheye'd areas. I then mixed up some DP50LF and shot 1 light coat after that. Fisheye'd again on the passenger side fender again, this time in a smaller area. This wet sanding and priming went on for 3 more hours and 3 more times in that area before I finally got off whatever was on there???? Then I started shooting base again.....got on 3 solid coats and......ran out of base Can't win today.....I have good coverage, but it's going to need 1 or 2 more coats for sure. So I was done shooting base for the day around 5 pm, figured I better call it a day before something else goes wrong.

Threw in a couple other pics of the XS chopper, 2 hours on that tonight. I road it a bit in the last week and needed to make a couple mod's. I managed to get rid of the Yamaha on each side. I had brought the case covers upto a machine shop last week to get the Yamaha milled out. Didn't want to do it because they thought the aluminum might chip and it might get a tad thin. So....I sandblasted them, fill the Yamaha up with bondo, sanded out and shot a coat of DP50LF, coat of base and the cheap clear. Also, made a 3.5" bend on the bars. Even as tall as I am and I designed the bike to fit me...still a stretch, this should help. The shifter and rear brake rod, used some 1/4" pipe, sleeved them both and welded the ends to stiffen them up...getting a little flex on them both when used. I will have to blast those rods and the handle bars again since I barked up the paint, but as soon as the lpb is out of the booth I'll get those painted again. I'll make sure to use the cheap clear since I think I might have went about $20 over my $600 dollar budget on this thing now ;p

Anyway, few pics of todays action..

Matt

Plan on getting another

 

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[semlin]

both are looking nice. did you grind out the yamaha logo as i can't see it? also curions how many dollars do you have sunk in that bike now?

 

[buckroseau]

both are looking nice. did you grind out the yamaha logo as i can't see it? also curions how many dollars do you have sunk in that bike now?

Hi Simon,

Didn't grind.....sandblast, bondo, prime and paint. Machine shop wouldn't machine it so I had to take matters into my own hands.

I was trying to stay under $600 and I think I am right about there now. I got lucky with a buddy hooking me up with the tank, headlight and taillight...so that helps. If I wouldn't have got the tank from him I would make one, so it wouldn't be much more and I think it would look as good.

P.s. Keep me in mind when you head up to that island cabin this spring.....still in need of those parts.

Thanks, Matt

 

[nuclearlemon]

both are looking nice. did you grind out the yamaha logo as i can't see it? also curions how many dollars do you have sunk in that bike now?

obviously, you look at playboy for the pictures....you must learn to read.

"I managed to get rid of the Yamaha on each side. I had brought the case covers upto a machine shop last week to get the Yamaha milled out. Didn't want to do it because they thought the aluminum might chip and it might get a tad thin. So....I sandblasted them, fill the Yamaha up with bondo, sanded out and shot a coat of DP50LF, coat of base and the cheap clear."

 

[semlin]

obviously, you look at playboy for the pictures....you must learn to read.

"I managed to get rid of the Yamaha on each side. I had brought the case covers upto a machine shop last week to get the Yamaha milled out. Didn't want to do it because they thought the aluminum might chip and it might get a tad thin. So....I sandblasted them, fill the Yamaha up with bondo, sanded out and shot a coat of DP50LF, coat of base and the cheap clear."

this is the cruiser porn thread isn't it?

actually i didn't see that and i could have sworn i read it

 

[MYTANK]

What an amazing job you've done!

I wish i had the time and space to take my 60 apart and give it the care it deserves..