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Old 12-27-2008, 12:49 AM
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looks like a good paint sniffing booth :P
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Old 12-27-2008, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by toyollAZ86
is that a paint booth.
you shoulda just built a little oven big enough for the frame and powder coated that bitch.
you can get the powder coating gun setup for a little over 100.
and the oven woulda been easier to build than that big old building you constructed inside your garage.
but still, its tight. good job.
FAIL, it takes a ton of insulation to bake powder in an oven. i do it on a daily basis

Sky, did you pup plastic on the floor. if not you will have a very colorful square on your floor
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Old 12-27-2008, 01:19 PM
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or just water.

yeah i thought about the insulation part but didnt realize it needed a whole lot. hmm. ?
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Old 12-27-2008, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by toyollAZ86
or just water.

yeah i thought about the insulation part but didnt realize it needed a whole lot. hmm. ?
i have only powder coated with a homemade fluidized bed in my garage. works but kinda thick coating.
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Old 12-27-2008, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by PhilStubbs
Sky, did you pup plastic on the floor. if not you will have a very colorful square on your floor
I've left it bare right now, I'm trying to get it as clean as possible inside the booth, then before I start painting i'm going to put the plastic down. I'm probably going to take off my shoes before I get in the booth as well, just so I don't track anything in with me.
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Old 12-27-2008, 06:40 PM
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with a wood frame, you sould build a port for something like a hvac air filter, like ones used with heat pumps. then let that run for a while before you start. also, i've seen people wet the floor with water before they paint for dust control

---- looks good, can't wait to see the finished product
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Old 12-27-2008, 08:36 PM
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Got my tank stripped today:

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Man, what a pain in the butt! took several coats of paint stripper, then sanding afterward. Still have to finish stripping the front half of the frame itself, and the air tank, but I'm getting really close to priming everything.

I'm also about a hairs-width away from deciding to darth Vader this bike. I know black has been done to death, but I'm just not liking my color combo's right now. I'm thinking about the bike being all black (gloss black not flat black), with chrome wheels, chrome headlight/taillight, and polished forks, everything else black, could be really cool.

What do you guys think?
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Old 12-27-2008, 10:17 PM
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What was the color you where going to paint it?
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Old 12-28-2008, 12:16 AM
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good ----
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Old 01-04-2009, 11:10 PM
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It begins-

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Overall I'm pretty happy with how the primer went on.

There was a moment about 2 minutes into the painting where I was scared of what I got myself into. But when it all comes down to it, you can't learn unless you try, and if I screw it up, who cares? Give it another try down the road I guess

I'll update as I go along
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