09-01-2015, 03:31 PM
Finally got the swing arm primed on Sunday. I'm telling you, we have had the worst weather I can remember in the over 20 years I've been here!! 
I used paint stripper to clean off the old paint then a wire wheel on a hand drill to remove any rust. It looked really good. Then family shit intervened and I wasn't able to work on it for another 2 weeks, and with all the rain we've been having that meant it was nice and rusty again.
So I took some #320 and #600 sandpaper to it and made sure I had it all nice and shiny this last Sunday before I hit it with the primer that I have been dying to try out. (Of course I forgot to take pictures first, it was cloudy and I was worried about the rain starting up again.)
I didn't have much confidence in my ability to rattle-can it, but it actually came out looking pretty nice. I put 2 coats on it and will probably hit it with another before I do the paint. I've been having trouble finding rattle can paint here. I want to do just a matte black - I'm shooting for a no muss, no fuss kind of dark image.
Next up, I need to do the tank, various engine parts and the frame. It would be nice if I could get that far before the end of the year, so I can spend the winter months putting it all back together. I envy the hell out of people with garages big enough to work in.
One thing I learned - make the time to do it all in one day - strip it, sand it and prime it - so you don't have to deal with the rust that grows faster than my grass here.
I used paint stripper to clean off the old paint then a wire wheel on a hand drill to remove any rust. It looked really good. Then family shit intervened and I wasn't able to work on it for another 2 weeks, and with all the rain we've been having that meant it was nice and rusty again.
So I took some #320 and #600 sandpaper to it and made sure I had it all nice and shiny this last Sunday before I hit it with the primer that I have been dying to try out. (Of course I forgot to take pictures first, it was cloudy and I was worried about the rain starting up again.)
I didn't have much confidence in my ability to rattle-can it, but it actually came out looking pretty nice. I put 2 coats on it and will probably hit it with another before I do the paint. I've been having trouble finding rattle can paint here. I want to do just a matte black - I'm shooting for a no muss, no fuss kind of dark image.
Next up, I need to do the tank, various engine parts and the frame. It would be nice if I could get that far before the end of the year, so I can spend the winter months putting it all back together. I envy the hell out of people with garages big enough to work in.
One thing I learned - make the time to do it all in one day - strip it, sand it and prime it - so you don't have to deal with the rust that grows faster than my grass here.
