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Puddle Jumper
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huntington In. | I am thinking about painting my Big Blue Vic. I want to make her mine, uniqtoue among unique bikes. That said allow me to
Show my igno rance. I read, saw, heard that paint won't stick to plastic. This must not entirely true since I have seen pictures of painte Visions. This leads me to my question.does it take a special paint or technique? I would like to have a little informatoin before I start talking to people so I might be able to tell if they know what they are doing. |
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Visionary
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| Yes paint sticks. Most painters will just scuff the surface and prim and paint. Get readdy for sticker shock. If your thinking of pearls or candys they can run you a couple thousand.
check out this site and you can see coast for just paint.http://www.tcpglobal.com/hokpaint/hok-shimrin-kandy.aspx |
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Visionary
Posts: 4278
| you'll need a good gallon if not more with all the body of a vision
http://www.tcpglobal.com/hokpaint/hok-shimrin-kandy.aspx |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 1109
| johnnyvision - 2012-11-16 5:47 PM Yes paint sticks. Most painters will just scuff the surface and prim and paint. Get readdy for sticker shock. If your thinking of pearls or candys they can run you a couple thousand. check out this site and you can see coast for just paint.http://www.tcpglobal.com/hokpaint/hok-shimrin-kandy.aspx At least a couple thousand. I remember ten years ago some friends spending 5-6k for paint. Never made sense to me. |
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Tourer
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New Orleans, La, | Willie, I have painted and you don't need a gallon of paint to paint a Vision even with the trim peices. I painted my KZ1000 super gas bike for a big auto show and did the tank, side covers and tail peice/rear fender, and front fender with 3/4 quart and had paint left over. Automotive paint is not like house paint. You must add thinner/reducer and the catalyst all of which expand the volume and therefore the area a particular volume the pure paint can cover. I'm assuming you are planning a clear coat base coat job so figure equal volume of clear coat and all that is needed to apply it. More important the big part of the cost is labor, essentially, that type of job requires that each part be painted twice. I would be more concerned with the painters skill level and lobor cost than the cost of the supplies. Speaking of supplies there's tape, paper, filters, ect,ect,ect. By no means am I trying to discourage you just want to afford you some food for thought. |
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Cruiser
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Duanesburg N.Y. | when my vision took a nose dive off my bike lift and destroyed itself the dealer just took all the scuffed parts with the new parts and the body shop just painted them. That was 2 years ago and the paint is fine. you have to remember that the body shops have been painting rubber bumpers on cars for over 20 years and have it down to a science on additives to be added to be used on plastic.
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Cruiser
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Conneaut, OH | Your bike has paint on it now.... it will stick just fine as long as it is prepped right any good paint job starts with the prep |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 1066
Peru, IN | conn-e-rot - 2012-11-19 5:40 PM
Your bike has paint on it now....
Yeah, but it's powder puff blue.  (Just messin' with ya, Bill.) |
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Puddle Jumper
Posts: 48
huntington In. | Yes, that it is. You have found my only problem with the bike |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 1066
Peru, IN | I vote for orange. Maybe a dark orange. Different, easy to see, stands out in a crowd, screams "custom". |
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