sachsaca painted his tank and side plates

[Guest]

I painted it with the rattle can system, I read in the garage section on how to paint on the cheap. I followed the directions somewhat. I sanded it inbetween each coat of paint with 400. It has about 12 coats of paint, Duplicolor Black Metaflake Laquer. It looks like glass, I am still shocked it came out this nice. It's my first so called real paint job on something that mattered. Thank you guys for your support.
Sachsaca

[twr1776]

Looks excellent, is there any type of sealer on it? From the posts I have read some rattle can paints do not hold up to having gas get on them. Maybe some one else could chime in, I have never painted a tank.

[spyug]

Fabulous job my friend. Ya dun good bro

The key to good paint is always the prep. Get that right and its generally smooth sailing. Sounds like you put a lot of grunt work into it and it looks like it too.

Did you go with a two part urethane clear coat as suggested? The rattle can clears are not going to stand up to spilled gas and it would be a shame to mess up that fine job.

Post bigger pics I want to see your smiling face in that tank.

Cheers,
Spyug

[Billy Ricks]

Lacquer should hold up fine. I used to paint my old T305 with rattle can lacquer and gas didn't hurt it. I'd go ahead and put a few coats of clear lacquer over the top.

[sachsaca]

spyug no I went to our local paint store and they were dumbfounded by the suggestion. I'm thinking I will just leave it as is...
I asked a mechanic at our city garage who paints cars, he said he has used alot of lacquer in his day and as long as it good and cured it should be good. He did say though to be careful with it. If id do run into a problem I am doing as discussed and having a body man I know shoot the two part on it.

[sachsaca]

another pic angle

[Steve]

Must be nice to have a gas tank-shaped mirror in the living room.

Great job. :clap;

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[sachsaca]

you should see the big stupig grin on the guys face who painted it. It blew my mind after I started polishing it. I used the mirror glaze swirl remover and WAMO there she be...
Not to bad for my first paint job. It was a true labor of love. I was just patient, redid alot of stuff over and over and over to get it smooth. I probably used about 12 cans of paint. I was very surprised at the outcome. I forget who did the article on painting the cheapway. They said in their pic it looks more shiny than the pic. He was right. I have to say though I owe it to you guys. I am extremely paranoid about doing stuff and messing it up and several of you were prodding me to go for it. So hats off to you my friends, thanks for the nudge. Sachsaca.

[Bribird]

You did a fantastic job!! I started out back in the day with rattle cans too. If you can do that good of a job with cans .....imagine what you could do with a real spray setup

I would still be very careful when filling your tank... I have had some very nice rattle can jobs get ruined in the past.. Some good quality carnuba wax should help prevent that ive learned..

once again...good job!

[sachsaca]

I purchased new tank badges. It's an L model and came black and gold so the name badges were gold. I stuck with the stock color, some things must be maintained. Any how thanks for the compliments. I have already given it about three coats of Meguiars, cleaner wax while watching a movie. Meguiars has a teflon type of wax protectant it's about $13.00 a bottle and well worth it from what I hear. Either that or the Mirror glaze that they sell. Someone asked me what I did to the underside of the tank. I actually cleaned it, sanded it and put an undercoating on the underside of the tank.

[posplayr]

Looks exceptionally clean. I'm in the middle of spraying a black paint job on a 81 GS750EX. I hope it is close to that, but i will have to rub it out to get that kinds of depth of gloss.

[spyug]

I'll second my original post. Farkin awesome work brother!

I'll be send ing all my "tins" to you from here on. Aand you did that with cans??????? Wicked!

I would still be anxious with the clear. I did extensive studies with rattle can clears and have yet to find one that hold up to gas. In my trials I thought I had a Duplicolor that would stand up and after a test with in the first week of application it seeemed to work. A month later on the tank I painted, one blurp of gas at a fill up and the run was a disaster...just lifted the paint. Never again. Only 2 part urethane for me.

I'm hoping you are good to go as that is too sweet a paint job to mess up.

Now bolt that tank on the bike and lets have some pics to see whatcha got.

Damnnnnnnnnnn you do good work.

Cheers,
spyug

[Nessism]

Another thumbs up on the killer paint job! Looks great! Problem with painting is that it's hard to stop. First it's the tank...then the side covers...then you're looking for excuses to paint other things.

[Bribird]

ya, thats the one thing leads to another, or the "while I'm in there" problem. thats how my 650 build started..I pulled the motor to fix the second gear...then I was like, I could paint the frame without to much effort at this point...then with everything off the bike...you cant put it back on without making it as perfect as you can...3-4 months later, you got a new bike

The teflon and silicone based waxes are kinda like a last step treatment... A good coat of carnuba was will last a long time and not be deluted as much by chemicals(ie.gas) like the others will. Put carnuba on it twice a year and use the others high shine(silicone,teflon) waxes for your maintance coats...

awesome job!

[cyclefvr2]

the new colors out are awsome, and the clear is really good as well, and works, heck i used silver metalflake on my 3 wheeler rims,and it was just decent spray can ,i spilled gas on it and it didnt peel or anything

yours turned out beautiful