Painting a rear seat cowl

[DrSavant]

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I know a bunch of people around here do things like this, and I'm too lazy to search - winter hibernation is upon me

I have a Ready For Paint rear seat cowl by Pyramid Plastics, for my 919, which I'm looking to paint stock silver - where should I go?

 

[DrSavant]

Anybody?

 

[DrSavant]

Found a place, please delete.

 

[Dresden]

Found a place, please delete.

Share the wealth... Where? Cost? etc.

 

[ETR]

Depends, you can do a pretty good job yourself.

I paint some of my own supermotos since they have plastic parts, and they come out nice. Just go to canadian tire, and get engine enamel spray paints, and clear coat paints, and take your time spraying them, and depending how glossy you want the paint the more steps are involved.

for the first three layers i usually do a 1metre distance spray, let dry for 15 mins each layer, and then closer distance half metre spraying another 3 layers, and 30 to 1 hour dry time between layers. let sit for three days then sand, clean, dry for one day, then add 3 more layers and let dry for 3 days at 3 feet distance, then add clear coat 5 layers, and let set for a week, comes out pretty bad azz for a can job and nothing much else but time! its all about taking your time, the right distance and spraying technique, i learned how to spray cans from friends who are pro graffiti artists. But im no professional, good enough to make my bikes paint look legit. And yea i hate this part of a bike built too.lol takes too lokng if you want good results.

 

[jeffjones]

for the first three layers i usually do a 1metre distance spray, let dry for 15 mins each layer, and then closer distance half metre spraying another 3 layers, and 30 to 1 hour dry time between layers. let sit for three days then sand, clean, dry for one day, then add 3 more layers and let dry for 3 days at 3 feet distance, then add clear coat 5 layers, and let set for a week, comes out pretty bad azz for a can job and nothing much else but time! its all about taking your time, the right distance and spraying technique, i learned how to spray cans from friends who are pro graffiti artists. But im no professional, good enough to make my bikes paint look legit. And yea i hate this part of a bike built too.lol takes too lokng if you want good results.

That definitely sounds like a major overkill.
I painted my ram air covers black and they came out amazing with about 4-5 coats and a good 2000 grit wet-sand and about 3 coats of clear.
If you can get your spray can with a fan type nozzle it makes life alot easier.

 

[DrSavant]

Share the wealth... Where? Cost? etc.

Another member on this forum. Let me ask him if he's ok with me sharing his info - will post or pm. Cost offered was great - $80-$100, in North York.

@ETR @JeffJones - makes a lot of sense, however time is not something I possess any of, at all I've somehow managed to complete my custom streetfighter project, which took me over a year, however now with a second kid, and both of them being very small, it's a wonder I have any time for my bike It's easier to pay someone at the end of the day.

 

[TheDutchDream]

Depends, you can do a pretty good job yourself.

I paint some of my own supermotos since they have plastic parts, and they come out nice. Just go to canadian tire, and get engine enamel spray paints, and clear coat paints, and take your time spraying them, and depending how glossy you want the paint the more steps are involved.

for the first three layers i usually do a 1metre distance spray, let dry for 15 mins each layer, and then closer distance half metre spraying another 3 layers, and 30 to 1 hour dry time between layers. let sit for three days then sand, clean, dry for one day, then add 3 more layers and let dry for 3 days at 3 feet distance, then add clear coat 5 layers, and let set for a week, comes out pretty bad azz for a can job and nothing much else but time! its all about taking your time, the right distance and spraying technique, i learned how to spray cans from friends who are pro graffiti artists. But im no professional, good enough to make my bikes paint look legit. And yea i hate this part of a bike built too.lol takes too lokng if you want good results.

Your first 3 coats with a spray bomb are from 40 inchs away?

that must be one hell of a aresol can.

in a paint booth with a gravity fed gun spraying at 18- 25 psi.... paint gun in is held at best, 10-14 inchs from the object being sprayed.

 

[ETR]

That definitely sounds like a major overkill.
I painted my ram air covers black and they came out amazing with about 4-5 coats and a good 2000 grit wet-sand and about 3 coats of clear.
If you can get your spray can with a fan type nozzle it makes life alot easier.

Yes definately over kill, this was on a project bike i built and some of the panels needed extreme jobs, because being a streetfighter supermoto it needed that extra for off road use, so the paint work needed to be long lasting for rough use, i guess wouldn't need as much on panels or fairings for SS bike related work.

Another member on this forum. Let me ask him if he's ok with me sharing his info - will post or pm. Cost offered was great - $80-$100, in North York.

@ETR @JeffJones - makes a lot of sense, however time is not something I possess any of, at all I've somehow managed to complete my custom streetfighter project, which took me over a year, however now with a second kid, and both of them being very small, it's a wonder I have any time for my bike It's easier to pay someone at the end of the day.

I completely understand i actually posted this at the same time as you posted never mind found someone, then i felt stupid. LOL

but yea i had a project as well, i built a streefighter supermoto, and it took me the exact same time 1 year, im a student so i have time, but yea in your situation its better to have it done by someone who can do a nice job, why not.lol

Your first 3 coats with a spray bomb are from 40 inchs away?

that must be one hell of a aresol can.

in a paint booth with a gravity fed gun spraying at 18- 25 psi.... paint gun in is held at best, 10-14 inchs from the object being sprayed.

It was not to really cover the panels the first 3 coats, i did that because when i ordered the fairings and panels from a custom japanese company, they accidently added clear coat on it, when i asked them not to and that i wanted the rough finish "without clear coat" so i can sand it off what ever colour they had on it (language communication problem)... i had them spray it grey (as to my order), because even before i searched for the body panels i had already registered the bike as grey,my custom color option was to come later, it was my fault i should have just got the basic primer or plastic but then i needed a colour to register it and first thing came to mind was grey.

When i got the panels i saw removing the clear coat and finish would be a pain, when summer came, sprayed from far, just to get 3 coats of rought surface, and let it settle and harden and seen if it stuck to the clear coats, and it did, after that i sprayed closer, and let the proper spraying stick onto the rough surface, paint came out awesome, and never peeled, i was just worried about peeling paint, because i sprayed all this over the original clearcoat.

It probably wasn't necessary, im not a pro painter, but i guess it made me a little, at ease, to know i got some tough skin on my panels for a while, specially for a bike that goes off and on road.

 

[croco]

Another member on this forum. Let me ask him if he's ok with me sharing his info - will post or pm. Cost offered was great - $80-$100, in North York.

I don't want to break any site rules, so mods feel free to delete this post if I'm stepping over any boundaries.

I'm the forum member in question, I do work at a car body shop that can paint bikes or parts professionally. The price I quoted DrSavant includes paint and clear coat for a paint ready piece, but there are obvious variations. Individual pieces requiring repairs cost more, while whole bikes with little damage will cost less per piece. It mostly has to do with the amount of prep work, and the quantity of colour matched paint required, since the minimum you can buy covers more than a single piece.

 

[jeffjones]

I don't want to break any site rules, so mods feel free to delete this post if I'm stepping over any boundaries.

I'm the forum member in question, I do work at a car body shop that can paint bikes or parts professionally. The price I quoted DrSavant includes paint and clear coat for a paint ready piece, but there are obvious variations. Individual pieces requiring repairs cost more, while whole bikes with little damage will cost less per piece. It mostly has to do with the amount of prep work, and the quantity of colour matched paint required, since the minimum you can buy covers more than a single piece.

My buddy that has a paint shop also says bodywork to bring the part to paint ready usually costs more then the paint process.
But as always the quality of the prep work will determine the final product for the people that want to prep them themselves and just get them sprayed professionally.

 

[croco]

My buddy that has a paint shop also says bodywork to bring the part to paint ready usually costs more then the paint process.
But as always the quality of the prep work will determine the final product for the people that want to prep them themselves and just get them sprayed professionally.

Absolutely correct. If you have a good booth, gun and compressor, spraying paint is the easy part IF you have the experience. The prep work however determines the quality of the final product because no amount of paint and clear coat will fix a wave in the body filler. And it's almost impossible to see these defects until after painting the piece. At which point you realize you have to start all over again.

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