Tips for using two bottle touch up paint.

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May 19, 2017 | 01:06 PM

mgmonster

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Tips for using two bottle touch up paint.

Does anyone have tips or suggestions for using the Harley two bottle touch up paint? I have a couple of gravel nicks in the saddle bag lid.

May 19, 2017 | 01:15 PM

UltraZac

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I could tell you all sorts of horror stories about this subject. I searched You Tube and found quite a few useful videos. I had some great success touching up my rear fender by following the tips on You Tube.

May 19, 2017 | 01:16 PM

svarnster

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patients is the key, little bit at a time

May 19, 2017 | 04:29 PM

fourburgs

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Take the two bottles and the bike to your local and trusted body shop and let them do the job ...

May 19, 2017 | 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by fourburgs

Take the two bottles and the bike to your local and trusted body shop and let them do the job ...

Leave the bottles at home and take 'em to your trusted body man. Unless he asks for them. The trick is, as has been said, a little at a time, build the clear just a little higher than the surface and just very fine grit paper to bring it all level again, then buff or rub. One doesn't just develop those skills in one job.

I have an acquaintance that borrowed some black touch-up paint one time that I had. This clown polishes his Road King a LOT more than he rides it. He polished it so hard and so much that he wore the paint right thru the clear, past the ghost flames, and into the black. And he was so stupid that he thought the black touchup paint would fix his foul-up.

Hence the term 'acquaintance' rather than 'pal'...or 'buddy'...or 'friend'...