Recent content by TRM

All of the accent graphics are done!

May the fourth be with you.

Got all of the masking off from around the black accents. First, all of the edges were wet sanded to help prevent the possibility of pulling off any new paint along with the tape. Everything will eventually be sanded anyway so this also knocked down some of the edge before prepping for...

Finished laying down paint over the weekend.

Got it. Hard to tell from the photo.

It may be hard to tell from the photo, but it looks like the fork is ok and the stem just needs to be lined up. Nice rider!

I'm not sure what the original colors where. The girls bike had several colors on the parts and the boys bike was a repaint when they came to me. Sadly my wife is not into riding either. She loves skating! I have a set of his and hers Monark Super Deluxe bikes (not matching colors) that I...

Wow. I'm stunned that posting this project has brought out such angst in your life STIG. Who could have known that the word 'restore' had so much power over anyone? Maybe you can start a thread of your own in the General Discussion area about your opinions on what constitutes a 'restoration'...

Here's todays progress report. Everything is masked sanded and ready for some more black paint! All of the paint work should be done this weekend.:)

That's great @THE STIG , thanks! That was my error. I should have been clear in the first post. I'll just call it "less than perfect restoration" (aka half ass'd). To clarify, my goal is to restore the bikes to a point in time (not the day they were new) that gives them the character of an...

Thanks @THE STIG for your input, but I'm not sure why you are being so adversarial about it! I will attempt to clear up the concerns that you pointed out for the benifit of everyone else that is following along. Sometimes photos can be misleading. Even though it's does appear that one of the...

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Thanks @fattyre . I've used the paint frames for lots of parts like wheel hubs, cranks, bars, etc. Basically if you can suspend anything with wire, they work great! Here's a wheel set that I painted a couple of years ago using them. I simply ran the bailing wire through the spoke holes. The...

Today I started masking the two tone parts for paint.

After some mild body work and paint prep everything was treated to several coats of automotive single stage enamel. Using my triangle paint frames made easy work out of painting the frames.