Smoothrite

[chipsonfriday]

Brush or spray?


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[(RIP) Tunneruk]

If you're painting railings - Brush
If you're painting the forks on yer bike - Spray!

 

[hughguzzi]

Just used the smoothrite black spray on my rear peg hangers and top box plate - lovely job but slow to dry and needed help with a hot air gun !! Also used the smoothrite silver spray (good match for the BMW ali silver) on the back rack - again nice job but needed lots of hot air to get it to cure. The spray can seems to me to be quite high pressure and is hard apply lightly enough. (top tip, warm the can of spray to room temp and warm the item to be sprayed) When I have used the brush on it cures way faster and is better for small areas (chips/scratches)
Even though they say to apply on rust, your finish will only be as good as the base !
Good luck

 

[chipsonfriday]

I have finally got around to the reason for my question. I have a small issue with corrosion on my GS1200. The usual corrosion on the front engine cover and also some on the headlight and windscreen bracket. Removed the headlight and windscreen bracket and removed the front wheel and crash bars to access the front engine cover. I intend to repair the engine cover in situ (I've seen it done before in a thread here somewhere).

I have removed the loose paint (powder coating) and am left with what seems to be quite solid stuff. But to do a decent job I need to get all of the original coating off both bits. I could just scrape and brush away but could be here forever and there is a huge risk i will damage the metal. So I reckon a solvent is best.

Smoothrite (silver) spray cans and a tin of etch primer at the ready...

Question is this: Which is the right solvent to use? I am sure some of you guys have done this before so will know.

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