Painting gas tank with Epoxy (appliance) paint – some questions

[MAJikMARCer]

Ooo, I wonder if you can still get Harvest Gold?

[SVSooke]

The first time I painted the 750's frame.

And the last time I did it,kinda like the satin.May do a single coat then leave it to see how that works.

Did the 78 1000 frame to.There where 2 cans sprayed on it.The first time I did the 750 frame I used 1 can.That just wasn't enough.I use it on all my hard use parts.The side and center stands for the 750 will be redone in "epoxy".One note here,this is NOT epoxy paint.Real epoxy paint is a 2 part product.My father used to work for a company that made it. Appliance epoxy is a REALLY strong enamel,even says so right on the can.The real epoxy is pretty good stuff with it only draw back being a "chalking" when exposed to UV.

[Gorminrider]

....that's what I thought too, sv'.
Epoxy means "Cold Cure" and the like of it to me- aTwo-part glue or coating that "kicks off".... oh well, it looks like good stuff whatever, but I was worried I'd slept through some great leap in chemistry.

[Triam]

I make stuff at my machine shop that goes on 737s, aircraft carriers, and A-10s. Both Boeing and the government require that we use 2 part epoxy paint. If it's good enough for the aircraft carrier it's good enough for my bike.

[tkent02]

It's pretty hard and tough against rocks and things flying into it? Resists chips and pits?

I need to paint a dirt bike frame, was going to use Hammerite or POR-15 but this may work.

[MisterCinders]

Follow up on this epoxy paint stuff.

Grabbed a few cans of white to try this out on another tank. I'd like to work in some red stripes, but alas, no red appliance paint.

How does the epoxy paint react to other paints (enamels)? Will the appliance paint adhere/cover regular paint? If so, I could shoot the color and tape it off, followed with the appliance paint.

Or, will enamel paints work on top of the appliance paint (after a week of drying time, etc.? That would let me layout the color on top of the white.

[old_skool]

This black epoxy doesn't react too well over other paints, but after cure, the other way around seems to work.

[1948man]

So I have been able to find white, almond, biscuit, black and maybe faux stainless steel. Does that seem to about it as far as the available colors?

[oldrookie]

http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?manuf=Appliance&rows=50

Seems like good list, but haven't checked beyond a quick search.

[1948man]

Wow, thanks. I wonder if you can still buy all of those.