Help with painting
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Help with painting
So my regular painter has been down for a couple weeks with a back issue and I am left with extended bags and lids sitting in my den just waiting to be painted. While I have been powdercoating the chrome parts, I've just about convinced myself to take a shot at doing the bags, lids, and inner myself after reading through this thread (http://www.roadglide.org/showthread....rep+saddlebags) I have a good compressor (kobalt 80 gallon) so air shouldn't be an issue for me. I also have a good friend who is letting me borrow his hvlp guns to shoot. I've never shot from an hvlp gun so any advise there is appreciated. I will be shooting single stage urethane vivid black. My main questions revolve around the bag prep and painting steps. I have the V-twin mfg CVO style bags (they seem pretty smooth) and the hog tunes lids. So far from what I have gathered, for the bags and inner i will need to:
1. wash with a good dish soap or wipe with alcohol
2. shoot with adhesion promoter (how many coats?)
3. 2 coats primer (is this needed with AP?)
4. Block with 400
4. shoot with paint ( 1 light 2 medium coats)
The lids should just take a decent washing with soap and then can take a couple coats since they are already primed.
Anyone who has any input would be greatly appreciated before I attempt this next weekend.
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1. wash with a good dish soap or wipe with alcohol
2. shoot with adhesion promoter (how many coats?)
3. 2 coats primer (is this needed with AP?)
4. Block with 400
4. shoot with paint ( 1 light 2 medium coats)
The lids should just take a decent washing with soap and then can take a couple coats since they are already primed.
Anyone who has any input would be greatly appreciated before I attempt this next weekend.
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It came out pretty well. After shooting the bags with a light coat of adhesion promoter and 2 coats of primer, I blocked with 600 then I was able to lay down a pretty smooth finish that only needed light color sanding (which I expected).
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I am glad I seen your post today, I might need to paint a tour-pak to match my bike, I was wondering what I needed to get the paint to stick to the plastic better. I didn't know about the adhesion promoter, I don't have access to a paint gun so I have been looking at the custom matched spray paints. any experience using these?
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