Dented 1000s tank restore

[chuck hahn]

Tell me about the prices!!!! Holy crap. Crazy. I think everyone jumped on the SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES party line during covid and it was just a plan to raise costs unfairly... but thats just my opinion

[nvr2old]

A quart of PPG Concept clear with the hardener is over $200..a pint of red costs $300, pearls even more. 3M masking tape costs 17 bux a roll..it starts to add up to almost $1,000 to get just enough quality materials to do a bike these days..let alone what it would cost to paint a car.

[chuck hahn]

I know the pain....lol

[steve murdoch]

Just for comparable pricing purposes.
I think this is a crazy price but unobtainium is costly.
$900.00 for a real S tank is probably low.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225631437192?hash=item3488ae8188%3Ag%3AIUkAAOSw6JRkk1LC&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4ECP2uFSjayXMx0Aoj56dDi8WyPGKVNTNSH89%2BdoURltPl3jmuLo0TGDFO4gCmfvgSOT74kq8V%2BwPKyYm3AdRHLc4J11tgIZDDqZi1aIxFzNu%2FgGGbaIB9Pue3hUCToxMk%2BGvyNpcTjYrPaEv%2Fu6n4ZYWqd93iyLQkZHIrXKPMof4rWyrjeJu9%2FLzX8Na2J%2FReNMeCQXJS3fNIWYS5igR%2B6ZTCn027TjdJ4Hf9WnIwEdEj7%2F2RSPEoqW%2Fe7zzG2SqAFqiDmdeXDpL64AtOcAu0cvvGf1n4qsNPbq%2BnztSvW8%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_qzqJ-hYg&LH_ItemCondition=3000

[chuck hahn]

Looking close at the reflections from several angles im not CLEARLY seeing any fluting on the parts. I would be asking for some much better pics if i was gonna spend that cash

[rphillips]

I thought the same thing but couldn't be sure. Thinking it is a "79" or "80" tank painted like a "78". It just doesn't look right.

[macbec29]

Hey Chuck, if you sell it and get anything close to the amounts were seeing asked for here I'm going to request an addendum to my give away. Maybe you can meet me one day on your 1000S somewhere between Oklahoma and California and buy me a very cold, very tasty pint. Utah seems to be right in the middle but not sure they would sell us a beer there.

[chuck hahn]

Request considered and denied....lol

[chuck hahn]

Got started on some body filler this afternoon. cant say when i will get another spot to do more but i am picking at it

[chuck hahn]

Took tank to the paint shop today. Scanner easily pegged the white at a 3 which is almost perfection. The blue wasnt so cooperative. Best match the scanner could get was a 13 so they piddled with tinting some Ford Grabber Blue darker and darker till it was so close it was spooky. I remembered someone had mentoned the grabber blue so that was the start point. It was quite alot lighter than this tank so the experiments began till my ultra picky azs was happy

[chuck hahn]

En8kTw.jpg Ive been up since 430 (went to bed at 11 ) so why not finish sand the last skim coat and give it a bath. Traced the original paint lines on so i have a pattern to lay some pinstripe down before primer. Im gonna prime right over the existing paint.. if its not peeling let it be primer!! Anyway, im gonna use a dark self etching ptimer on the blue areas and a lighter etch primer on the white areas. This will give me good lines when painting.
Once i untape it from doing the primers i will sand the ridge line, then mask off respective areas and start shooting colors. Then once its painted all thats left is sand those paint lines, apply decals and clear. So heres where it sets as of this morning. Larry, does my plan of attack seem solid to you?
It took a bit of patience and a lot of add a bit of filler here and there to get the curvature right and to "FEEL EQUAL" from side to side. The primer will fill in things a bit and should be all that much smoother when i lightly sand primer befotre spraying. Some dont recommend sanding primer if it looks good but i disagree. I think sanding just melds the base together very nicely.

[chuck hahn]

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[Nessism]

My opinion, after painting two different S tanks previously, is to first fully strip the tank. Including the underside. There is sure to be rust under the old paint, and clean metal is always the best foundation to build on. Second, an epoxy primer coat as a base, followed by fill primer as needed to level. There is no need for two different color primers, unless the top coat demands some sort of special base to achieve the color you want. And if that's the case, that would be a three-layer formula, which doesn't seem to be the case.

Lastly, I don't mean to sound critical, chuck, but your photos are the size of postage stamps! We need real PHOTOS! Some of us are very interested in watching your project, key word "watch", but those photos are just plain frustrating!

And, BTW, the position, size, shape, of the coloring/strips on the S tanks I've worked on (three different ones) were all different. The paint process at Suzuki was not an exact science; it's a fluid process, literally, and the strips fell where they may, so to speak, during assembly. I wouldn't fret on making them exactly like the old stripes.

[chuck hahn]

Well Ed i have tried all the photo size settings on my camera to try to get big pictires and i cant get any results. Ever since Frank did the latest " upgrade " the photos added to a post AND the sizing has been an absolute abomination. Have i ever voiced my displeasure before??? HMM. I only know how to post off imageshack. I have tried the options listed for linking photos but all i ever get is they are TOO BIG.

Whats needed for computer illiterates such as myself is a sticky tutorial on how to properly use those link things AND how to resize on the computer.. along with some size info for posting pics.

[chuck hahn]

ED,,,, Every time i try to use a linking option i get the picture exceeds the limit of 2,00 MB so maybe that needs to be changed at the server end. Other than that im clueless as what to do about it