My road back to being a zed owner!

[dixiethedog]

The red paint above was fitted to a hard tail fj1200 engined chop that I believe was featured in either BSH magazine or 100% Biker. It was nice when it was all finished.

[dixiethedog]

I am not looking to find any paint jobs to take on at the moment. I have enough on my plate with all of my own stuff! So please don't think that I am out to make any money from anybody cos I am not!

[Hard Road]

:D I am not looking to find any paint jobs to take on at the moment. I have enough on my plate with all of my own stuff! So please don't think that I am out to make any money from anybody cos I am not!

nice job on the paint and the paint booth
I like to do my own paint now and then but I fail badly on the prep work !!!!!! its defo the hardest bit
just rattle cans but I use that 2K clear stuff in a can, really good but £25 a can

[dixiethedog]

:D I am not looking to find any paint jobs to take on at the moment. I have enough on my plate with all of my own stuff! So please don't think that I am out to make any money from anybody cos I am not!

nice job on the paint and the paint booth
I like to do my own paint now and then but I fail badly on the prep work !!!!!! its defo the hardest bit
just rattle cans but I use that 2K clear stuff in a can, really good but £25 a can

£25 a can. Wow! That is expensive, but if that is what you have to do it is probably alright. The materials for the chop thing that I am busy with came in at about £70 but I could probably do 2 paint jobs with that.
Thanks for the kind words on the paint job and paint booth.

[Hard Road]

:D I am not looking to find any paint jobs to take on at the moment. I have enough on my plate with all of my own stuff! So please don't think that I am out to make any money from anybody cos I am not!

nice job on the paint and the paint booth
I like to do my own paint now and then but I fail badly on the prep work !!!!!! its defo the hardest bit
just rattle cans but I use that 2K clear stuff in a can, really good but £25 a can

£25 a can. Wow! That is expensive, but if that is what you have to do it is probably alright. The materials for the chop thing that I am busy with came in at about £70 but I could probably do 2 paint jobs with that.
Thanks for the kind words on the paint job and paint booth.

that £25 tin is the 2K stuff where you pop a button in the base to mix it, just as good as a paint shop uses. the only problem is you have to use the full can within 24 hours

[dixiethedog]

My Mrs is off today and hovering around the kitchen.
I need the digital kitchen scales to measure my paint for spraying. I am going to offer to make her a cuppa so that she might move her butt to the toilet so I can sneek the scales out. The diesel heater is on, and the temp is perfect for spraying.

[Hard Road]

My Mrs is off today and hovering around the kitchen.
I need the digital kitchen scales to measure my paint for spraying. I am going to offer to make her a cuppa so that she might move her butt to the toilet so I can sneek the scales out. The diesel heater is on, and the temp is perfect for spraying.

good luck

[dixiethedog]

My Mrs is off today and hovering around the kitchen.
I need the digital kitchen scales to measure my paint for spraying. I am going to offer to make her a cuppa so that she might move her butt to the toilet so I can sneek the scales out. The diesel heater is on, and the temp is perfect for spraying.

good luck

The kitchen scales now where they belong. In my shed!

[dixiethedog]

Never spray metal flake!!

What a erm... mess on (to be polite). The flake I am using is a pre bought litre of the stuff, basically 1 litre of 2k clear coat with flake added. After a shake, the flake looks nice in the can but once into a spray gun and sprayed it looks rubbish. I figure to get a coverage of what you would describe to be a metal flake paint job you woul need to spray 20-30 coats by which time the paint would be about 3-4mm thick. As a stupid experiment I decided to strain the flake paint through paint strainers to seperate the flake from the clear, which when done the flake could be emptied back into the can to make a more dense higher concentrate of flake to clear. But after 10 minutes figured that I should just buy some more flake (50g) and add it to the can. Job done.
In the past, I have done a few flake jobs, so I don't have a clue as to what I was thinking when I was planning this job out? Old timers discease I think.
This is a crappy video, but the way I did this orange paint made more sense than the one I am busy with today. Never mind. Upward and onwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxAsx5Db1v8

[Hard Road]

Never spray metal flake!!

What a erm... mess on (to be polite). The flake I am using is a pre bought litre of the stuff, basically 1 litre of 2k clear coat with flake added. After a shake, the flake looks nice in the can but once into a spray gun and sprayed it looks rubbish. I figure to get a coverage of what you would describe to be a metal flake paint job you woul need to spray 20-30 coats by which time the paint would be about 3-4mm thick. As a stupid experiment I decided to strain the flake paint through paint strainers to seperate the flake from the clear, which when done the flake could be emptied back into the can to make a more dense higher concentrate of flake to clear. But after 10 minutes figured that I should just buy some more flake (50g) and add it to the can. Job done.
In the past, I have done a few flake jobs, so I don't have a clue as to what I was thinking when I was planning this job out? Old timers discease I think.
This is a crappy video, but the way I did this orange paint made more sense than the one I am busy with today. Never mind. Upward and onwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxAsx5Db1v8

it doesn't look that bad in the video ! but its all a learning curve

[dixiethedog]

Last week I broke my camera. Things have been progressing but seeing as I don't have any pics I have not posted anything.

I have gone for almost 20 years without one of those mobile telphone devices. Tools of the devil and all of that. I worked in the finance dept. of T-Mobile where we chased up debt from phones. And when I had the misfortune to speak to a customer as to why their phone was off and they needed to pay some money I used to question the sanity of people spending a fortune every month on a phone. Back then contracts and charges were crazy. So I put my company supplied mobile in the bin. Even though it was free. I was fed up with people phoning me to ask, "What you doing?", to which I would say, "I'm at work, I'm busy etc" and they would say, "But I am bored and want somebody to talk too..." So I hated the things.

But I have just bought a new mobile telphone device! I am in the process of changing my broadband supplier and as from next month will not have a landline (FFS!!). My Mrs said, "You will be able to take photographs on your new phone and you will not need a camera".
So today I might have a look online and buy a new camera. The new mobile thing can go in the cupboard. I can't see that one of those will take decent photo's!

[Hard Road]

all my pic's are taken on my phone and it takes excellent photo's. most modern phones come with a very good camara

[dixiethedog]

all my pic's are taken on my phone and it takes excellent photo's. most modern phones come with a very good camara

I am fighting technilogical progress. I am more like a caveman than a hi tech person.

I think mobile telephone things are a fad and people will soon get fed up with them.

But having said that, your photo's do look excellent.

[Hard Road]

all my pic's are taken on my phone and it takes excellent photo's. most modern phones come with a very good camara

I am fighting technilogical progress. I am more like a caveman than a hi tech person.

I think mobile telephone things are a fad and people will soon get fed up with them.

But having said that, your photo's do look excellent.

yeah i know what you mean, im not into all this techno crap but only use my fone for calls/txt and pics.
when i worked for a Suzuki dealer back in 2007 i was on a GSXR1000 with a laptop on my back and plugged into the bike then back to the shop to adjust the F.I. not for me, i left not long after.

[dixiethedog]

all my pic's are taken on my phone and it takes excellent photo's. most modern phones come with a very good camara

I am fighting technilogical progress. I am more like a caveman than a hi tech person.

I think mobile telephone things are a fad and people will soon get fed up with them.

But having said that, your photo's do look excellent.

yeah i know what you mean, im not into all this techno crap but only use my fone for calls/txt and pics.
when i worked for a Suzuki dealer back in 2007 i was on a GSXR1000 with a laptop on my back and plugged into the bike then back to the shop to adjust the F.I. not for me, i left not long after.

I agree. I own 3 bikes with fuel injection but I prefer struggling for hours trying to get 4 cylinder banks of carbs into rubbers into tight airboxes.