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V50 Guzzi re-paint ie: Therapy

nvr2old said:
I know just what you mean. I spent half my life in a single car garage with makeshift heat and lighting with a box fan sucking out more heat then over spray. The down draft in this booth removes all over spray in literally seconds and maintains a constant 80 degrees at the same time. So amazing.
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Back when I worked at an auto processing center we had a top of the line downdraft booth and full PPG mixing station. Such a luxury! The heating system was amazing; turn it on and an hour later the paint is dry enough for sanding or polishing.

This is (was) my current paint curing oven (yes, there is a story behind it...)

IMG_1348 by nessism, on Flickr
 
Nessism said:
Back when I worked at an auto processing center we had a top of the line downdraft booth and full PPG mixing station. Such a luxury! The heating system was amazing; turn it on and an hour later the paint is dry enough for sanding or polishing.

This is (was) my current paint curing oven (yes, there is a story behind it...)

IMG_1348 by nessism, on Flickr
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Where do you keep your underwear when the dresser drawer is occupied?
 
Buffalo Bill said:
Hey Larry, do you sometimes use an airbrush?
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Ya know, Bill, the only time I used an airbrush was for doing murals. I did a ton of them back in the seventies. l also used one for blending the colors in flames. I stopped using mine when I got into restoration painting, and discovered that using a really nice small detail gun serves me real well for bike parts. I kinda miss it, though..especially full size van murals. No detail guns back then, though. You can really dial them down to almost the same fan size as an airbrush.
 
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nvr2old said:
Ya know, Bill, the only time I used an airbrush was for doing murals. I did a ton of them back in the seventies. l also used one for blending the colors in flames. I stopped using mine when I got into restoration painting, and discovered that using a really nice small detail gun serves me real well for bike parts. I kinda miss it, though..especially full size van murals. No detail guns back then, though. You can really dial them down to almost the same fan size as an airbrush.
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A detail gun, will have to look at those.
Murals in the 1970s? Back in the mid 70s I was in art school and I remember a visiting artist showing slides and telling about all the mural projects he organized in Chicago neighborhoods.
 
Here's a quick pic of the one I use. It's cup is big enough to actually hold enough paint to lay a coat or two on most tanks. Great for touch ups and stripes. I think I paid about 125 dollars for this one, but you can buy really inexpensive ones that are OK at Harbor Freight for about 35 dollars, too.

 
Looks like a normal gun with a small cup. What tip size do you use mostly with your mini gun?
 
I should've put a normal gun or a match book next to it..;).. It's actually about 1/2 the size of a standard paint gun. Very light and delicate feeling in your hand. Not sure what the tip size is, I'd have to look, but it'll spray a fan about 4 inches wide down to a spray pattern about the size of a nickle. I do all my stripes with it. It allows you to mix up such a small amount of paint and then takes it a long way.
 
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Spent last weekend block sanding all 9 parts. Guide coat for everything.





The Moto Guzzi fairing needed a bit of spot filler.





Only needed to guide coat the worked area of the S fairing.



Also needed to prime the back sides of everything this go round.



Looking better every time they're primed and hit with finer and finer sand paper.



I'm totally stoked with how the inside and outside of the Guzzi fairing is turning out.



 
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Remember how ugly these turn signal recesses were?









The Guzzi tank and fenders look good too but didn't show up on a pic worth a darn in the white booth. Slow but sure. Getting so close to color, I can taste it..
 
Got a full 8 hours in the shop today. I was able to final block sand all 9 parts with 400, and get the GS fairing painted and clear coated..

This is the factory fairing that came with my S when I bought it..ouch..that's why I replaced it with an Airtech fiberglass one..but it didn't have the trailing edge bead. I have since learned how to fix these and will do so eventually.





I'll break out the detail gun for this.
Painted the black first to get the black stripes layed out first followed by the white stripe.









Ready to spray the white..pulling the tape will reveal the black stripe.





On to the blue..



 
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All three base coats are on successfully..;)



Three coats of clear..and done for the day. Let it dry tonight and go get it tomorrow.







Just need to cut and buff this fairing, paint the back satin black and on to the red for the Moto Guzzi next weekend.
 
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I dunno, I found the feathered edge of black over white the most compelling. Solid blue? meh…
3 coats of clear, then wet sand and buff. I get that.
 
Sorry if I'm boring you, Bill.. It was actually white over black, too.. I don't have to do this. I do, to share the process and to maybe show some tips on techniques that I've spent years learning. I don't have to spend a ton of time taking pictures, uploading and posting them in sequential order either. I do this for my friend and client, Jim. It's a way for him to stay updated, also. If you've learned it all for yourself, good on you.
 
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