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Touch up paint chips or leave it alone?
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Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
I started to touch up a black bike I have that had many scratches and red primer showing. while it looked better from 15 feet away it did not look better up close. I did about 3 or 4 then stopped.
Grey Ghost
Wore out three sets of tires already!
Most people thickly dab on touch up willy-nilly and then wonder why it looks bad when they are done. Good examples of this above.
I used a very fine liner brush and was careful not to go “outside the lines”.
I also used a very light coat. After it dried the color match was quite good, better than I expected.
I resisted the urge to use another coat because the color might have popped out from the base coat.
After it dried I used a very fine polishing compound to smooth everything out.
I was satisfied with the color match, it didn’t look like a bunch of spots and lines all over the paint.
4 coats of a very special blend of automotive wax/polymer topped it off.
I am very happy with the results. It looks so much better than the trashed finish it started with.
Sure, if you look close enough, you can see where I touched it up. However, even then, it looks more like shallow chipping instead of the all-the-way-to-the-primer gashes it had.
To me, original only goes so far before it turns to “junk”.
All the components were in very good shape, very little rust and oxidization. Not junk.
The paint was junk on this bike. Now it looks pretty good and doesn’t clash with the rest of the bike.
I used a very fine liner brush and was careful not to go “outside the lines”.
I also used a very light coat. After it dried the color match was quite good, better than I expected.
I resisted the urge to use another coat because the color might have popped out from the base coat.
After it dried I used a very fine polishing compound to smooth everything out.
I was satisfied with the color match, it didn’t look like a bunch of spots and lines all over the paint.
4 coats of a very special blend of automotive wax/polymer topped it off.
I am very happy with the results. It looks so much better than the trashed finish it started with.
Sure, if you look close enough, you can see where I touched it up. However, even then, it looks more like shallow chipping instead of the all-the-way-to-the-primer gashes it had.
To me, original only goes so far before it turns to “junk”.
All the components were in very good shape, very little rust and oxidization. Not junk.
The paint was junk on this bike. Now it looks pretty good and doesn’t clash with the rest of the bike.
. I’ll do the paint touchup when I get this machine set up and ready to go out the door.
Grey Ghost
Wore out three sets of tires already!
Ahh, C’mon, it wasn’t THAT bad!
On second thought, maybe it was....
On second thought, maybe it was....
razinhellcustomz
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
I built up a 68 Orange Krate Rat bike several years ago that had rough but og paint that I just left as is and rode the wheels off of and sold a few years ago...Was really happy the way it turned out..Great starting point and to each his own... RideOn...
razinhellcustomz
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
Looks like the primer came off with the top coat as well.. Schwinn used red primer on their dark colors and silver primer on the lighter colors...
GTs58
I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me!
That’s incorrect. Schwinn used the red primer on all paint, solid colors and opal radiant colors. The candy paint had a silver base over primer. But Schwinn did experiment with a silver base/primer around 1963 on the flamboyant red color.
razinhellcustomz
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
That maybe true, but I have several Coppertone frames with silver primer so that's not true either...
GTs58
I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me!
Oh yes it is true! The candy colors have an aluminum base coat over the top of the red primer. The Coppertone is considered a candy color and if you look close you’ll see red primer underneath that silver reflective basecoat.
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