Painters advice needed

[themess]

Hi, yeah I'll second the PPG, thats what we use also along with house of colors, yes it is expencive but the finished product for most jobs is extraordinary. ps, I cant remember but I think we use low voc clear or something, I always wondered what that exactly ment, can you shead some light on the subject for me? thx-darren

Nessim defined VOCs correctly. Examples include turpentine, lacquer thinner, xylene, toluene, methanol, ethanol, gasoline, brake cleaner, carb cleaner and so on. "Volatile" means that it evaporates easily. The EPA has rules to try to reduce the amount of VOCs in the atmosphere because they cause health problems.

"Organic" means that it contains the chemical element carbon.

Without getting into a lot of chemistry, most coatings that survive being immersed in water are organic and organic coatings dissolve better in organic solvents. To get rid of the solvent, it must evaporate.

In the last few decades, chemists have learned a lot about reducing the VOC content of paints, using some fairly complex chemistry.

[rustybronco]

Bronco, sweet deal man See if you can track down my medium gray :-\"

details please

[J_C]

Oh I was just kidding man Thanks though.

I'm going down to a supply place as suggested to look through the paint chips. Trying to match something like this:

[justin caise]

Whoa! This is CREEPY!



Same tank, Same dent (roughly), same time (roughly).8-[
Our bikes must be related.
Doh! Silly me. Of course they are.

I'm gonna try to bang mine out.
Also my tank has holes that seem to be from a previous and different petcock location. I'm not sure of the year and model of the tank but it's colors are different than the rest of the sheet metal on this 79 GS1000 so I know that it must be a replacement.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/justincaise/GS1000/DSCN5546.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/justincaise/GS1000/DSCN5548.jpg

This 2nd pict shows petcock placement for the 1000. PM me if you need measurements or anything - May be same as yours.

Thanks for the descriptive resto tutorial - It'll help.