Yaaargh- problems with painted uni

[censored] like this always happens to me 🙁

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muniracer said:

* through my wrangling i had destroyed the paint job i
had just been so proud of. *

why r u complaining?

johnhimsworth said:

*coz if you get a painted frame it can get a bit scratched
and beaten up looking and it looks like you've been doing
lots of really serious riding and it makes you look really
good. Chrome just doesn't show the battle scars as well. *

seems to me u just took a short-cut and created the world's
first UPD-Custom paint job?

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I love that quote by Jonh!

But if you are going to paint a frame, why not get it
powdercoated? Ok, so it does cost a little bit more, but it
lasts much long.

If the paint came off when you were just putting the
seat post on, what is it going to be like when you come
off on trail?

Joe, - I powdercoat my unis 🙂

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muniracer <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

i didnt get it powdercoated because its an old frame- i
had been riding with it just chrome for 6 or 7 months.

i repainted it and it looks even nicer. i wrapped clear
tape around the frame in hopes of saving the paint. the
tape will probably teat off and look even orse than the
first crummy paint job but im up for trying anything. ill
tell you how it goes...

Most spray paint that comes from a can won't stick well on
metal, even if it's been primed. The only spray paint I'd
recommend using on metal is made for truck bed liners.
You'll find it in the automotive section and probably only
in black. It's about $7 a can but it sticks better than any
spray paint I've ever found. It has a subtle texture to it
and is more of a flat paint. If you ever did scratch it, you
could just spray over the scratch and it would blend in (due
to the texture). As with all paint, you have to let it sit
long enough to cure before messing with the piece.

I've tried enamels, engine paint and everything thing else I
could find on the shelf. If you want a really nice paint job
on metal, you won't find it on a shelf. You'l have to pay a
professional with the right paint and equipment to do it.

i didnt get it powdercoated because its an old frame- i had
been riding with it just chrome for 6 or 7 months.

i repainted it and it looks even nicer. i wrapped clear
tape around the frame in hopes of saving the paint. the
tape will probably teat off and look even orse than the
first crummy paint job but im up for trying anything. ill
tell you how it goes...

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Dont forget a nice coat of clear over top of everything to
protect it, I've had mixed results on painting frames, the
frist frame I painted lasted in decent shape for quite a
while, my latest attempt of pink with sparkles didnt hold up
long at all, I blame that on the spray paint I used, pink is
harder to find than you might guess. And I ended up using a
non enamle spray paint.

My next trials frame is deffenatlly going to be powdercoated
pink and if I can find it with some big flake glitter to top
it off. Paint only last so long, I dont know how bikes are
painted and it last so long looking good.

Mike

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I would guess that bikes are powdercoated

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i just got back from a BRIEF muni ride, 20 minutes probably
to test out the frame. so far so good. like i said above, i
wrapped clear tape around the fork to prevent the paint from
coming off. i also wrapped blue tape around the seatpost and
top of the frame as a sort of handle. the paint was kind of
sticky so i needed to cover it. so, the end results: the
frame looks great, not as good as it could be if it was
powdercoated, but great! the tape blends the yellow and red
together to make it look even more like flames. the only
prob thus far is that some of the paint on the crankarms
wiped off when my foot would accidently rub against it. but
that was expected.

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Checkernuts said:

*My next trials frame is deffenatlly going to be
powdercoated pink and if I can find it with some big
flake glitter to top it off. Paint only last so long, I
dont know how bikes are painted and it last so long
looking good. *

Some bike frames are stove enamelled, which supposedly lasts
a bit longer than powder coat and looks lovely and shiny.

Joe

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Commercial painting onto metal is often done using a process
that somehow uses static electricity to bond the paint to
the surface. I don't know what this is called, if it's
actually used on bikes (it's used on cars), or if I
described it right. Suffice it to say that a factory paint
job is nothing like a home spraypaint job.

Baked enamel and powdercoating are both stronger than
factory paint, and way, way stronger than a home paint job.

Painting over chrome, probably even if you rough it up real
good, is probably going to come off very easily.

Chrome is the strongest of all. Wouldn't it be nice if
chrome came in different colors?

That's why I prefer chrome over paint in most cases. Most of
the scratches and dings on my unicycles come from:
1. Loading in and out of the car, usually with other
unicycles.
2. Parking it (people will think they're being helpful by
leaning my unicycle with the painted part against a piece
of concrete or a rock).
3. Stuff that happens while riding/dismounting it.

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My favorite powdercoating and the one I will get done to my
mUni when it needs to be repainted is a clear coat. Clear
coat on steel looks awesome IMHO. Especially after the frame
gets a few scratches and you get some rust lines on the
frame! You also get to see the nice blue from the welds.

Here are some nice close-ups of a clear powder job

[image: "]http://www.endlessbikes.com/headtube_back.jpg]

[image: "]http://www.endlessbikes.com/bb.jpg]

[image: "]http://www.endlessbikes.com/dropout.jpg]

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johnfoss said:

*Commercial painting onto metal is often done using a
process that somehow uses static electricity to bond the
paint to the surface. I don't know what this is called, if
it's actually used on bikes (it's used on cars), or if I
described it right. *

John I was going to get this done to my mountain bike
because with that technique they can paint on amazing
detailed paint designs. Unfortunatly I was informed that
something can only be magnetically charged and painted this
way ONCE and that it cannot be done after a paint job has
already been applied...it must be the first paint ever
applied to the metal. So I couldn't get it done.

I was going to have them do my bike in the "Real
Tree"(camo) design 🙂

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zod said:

*Here are some nice close-ups of a clear powder job *

Hey, wait a minute. Those are close ups of a b*ke! What are
you trying to pull here! 😠 😉

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<====== runs away :p

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Please post a pic of the flame uni it sounds fairly cool!!

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maybe in the next couple weeks. i dont have a digital camera
but someone at school might.

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I read muniracer's painting exploits with great empathy. I
recently decided to give myself a weekend project of
stripping my (common as air) orange Summit and repainting
with something really, really unique – say, black. However,
after a total of about 4 days of obsessing over this
project, each time I rode passed a set of cement steps paint
would just fly off the frame. Go figure! Thus, either today
or tomorrow I’m expecting a shipment from Darren Bedford and
my new, surely one-of-a-kind, black, powder coated Summit.
I’ve given-up on paint. Also, I’m in the market to have my
Wyganowski chromed if anybody has a chromer that is does
great work for barter.

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Tmornstar said:

*if anybody has a chromer that is does great work for
barter. *

just curious what would u offer as barter?

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I dunno, wheel truing? - However you'd have to pay for the
shipping from So. Africa. Tommy

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