painting Blue '68 305 Dream

[clarenceada]

Got some pictures out of the camera and am going to try posting them:















If all goes well comments will follow.
these are pictures my daughter-in-law took for me, the primed side covers were taken on a cloudy
day and the ones taken after painting are over-exposed as the paint is darker to the naked eye. Got to get a decent camera. The paint looks great but I am surprised how easily it gets fine scratches in the clear coat. The painter said I would need to buff it out but to wait till after I get the bike assembled, probably so I can touch up the scratches I make getting it togther.

Had a little fun getting the paint to the painter; the paint shop told me to bring in a piece of the bike and they would "shoot it with the camera" to get the color code they needed to mix the paint. When I get there the camera is broke so I pick the closest match from a catalog of a coupla hundred colors. With these 60yr old eyes the blues kinda all look the same so I pick a likely looking shade and then find out that they are out of the blue pigment for that color and it would take days to get some from Eugene. So, as I had the painters waiting for it, I choice a car paint they had the proper pigments for. It's a Toyota code called ,Spectra Blue, Dupont no. f4486 k
Clarence

[Brandonrre]

Looks great Clarence! I can't wait to see the finished product.

[clarenceada]

Thanks, Bran, the last pieces go to the painter Monday and then I can start seeing about getting things chromed and polished. Did you ever find anybody to do your plating? I was surprised it was so hard to find one in the bay area; up here I will have to send it away to Medford, my painter knows a business there that will plat a front rim (dismantled) for $50. I hope he's right, on the forum it runs three times that much.
Clarence

[clarenceada]

up date on this here project: Got the frame and fenders back on the first of july and was happy with the look of the paint; not prefect but acceptable, so I stored them on cloth lined shelves in the shed and have been busy getting the rims and hubs painted and chromed till today I happened to be in the shed and seen a little dirt speck on the back edge of the front fender and tried to scrape it off with my finger nail and the paint easily came off, I mean like scratching off a lottery ticket!!!!!!!!!! Underneath the paint was bondo which they did warn me they would have to use as the front fender had been mangled by dropping off of a curb.

Now the rest of the paint and body work looked real good, they did an excellent job of fabricating a new battery tray (they old one was cobbled up by the p. o.) and fixing the curve of the front fender.
They had quoted me a price of$500 for paint, the body work extra. I choked on the bill, $1000 for a total bill of $1500. I had been quoted $1500 for a paint job at another body shop, I guess they get you one way or the other. I dont want to go in screaming at them as I have other bikes I was planing on having them do some body work on, so:
1. is this a normal problem with painting over bondo?
2. do I suspect the rest of the paint?
3. how do I test the rest of the paint job short of scratching it with a scew driver?
4. what could have gone wrong with the paint job as this shop has a good reputation?
5. should/could it have been done in bronze or lead?

I would be tickled to pieces if somebody answered.
Clarence

[rpr851r]

Clarence,
I have done my fair share of painting and never have had a problem with paint over plastic body filler. It could be limited to just the body filler but it’s hard to know and I don’t know how you test it without picking at it. There’s a lot that can go wrong with paint so it’s hard to tell what the issue might have been. It could have been anything from moisture, low temperature, to surface contamination. I would take the pieces back to the shop and see if they will address it.
Good Luck,
Rich

[Slyk Willy]

Gonna be great when it's done. I've always liked the Blue

[clarenceada]

Trying to tie up some of the threads I left last year when I was having a hard time finding a good painter which I found in Winston, Oregon: Don's Powder Coating.

The paint after setting over a year has harden up so it doesn't come off with a finger nail and I got a bottle of touch up from Toyota (used their no. from Dupont to buy the paint but had to go to toyota's parts store for the touch-up). It comes in a bottle with a ball point applicator like a pen:




I paid $10 for this half ounce so that would be $320 for a pint, makes the Krylon dull aluminum that I'm looking for down right cheap.


Clarence