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Hi.Im new to the forum.I can help you with paint and body questions so if your having a problem fire away.

to the 'hood Fast. Always helpful to have somebody with bodywork experience around.

(Don't worry Barney, we still love ya )

FastrSHO

Where abouts in GA are you? I'm headed down there next month to visit my folks....

i live in valdosta ga,on the fla ga line right off of i75

Bummer, I'll be on the opposite side of the state. SC/GA line on I85

want to polish my frame, any tips on what i need to do it and how to do it? I realize its a long project, and will be doing it in bits and sections at a time, probably starting with the swingarm

Start off with a DA use 180 grit paper till you get all the anodizing off the frame. Then move to 220 grit, then to 400, 600, 800 and finally 1000 with the air powered DA. When you get this far your frame is pretty close to polishing. Next pull out the 1000 grit wet and dry paper, sand by hand and sand in one direction only, cross sanding will cause scratches. Then move on to 1500 then to 2000 all with wet or dry paper, now your frame is ready to polish.

Get out a handy car buffer with polishing wheel and use a rubbing compound ruff cut for automotive buffing, this will take a bit of time for the first time polisher. I use a car buffer for my frame jobs, rims are too small to use it on, keep pad damp so that compound doesn't ball up or gum the pad. Once you are done with this stage clean pad and use an automotive polish such as Perfect It III POLISH! Re buff the frame one more time with this and your ready to use MOTHERS aluminum polish on a baby diaper or polishing rag, remember with the final polish to keep your rubbing motion in one direction. For rims I use a automotive paint stripper. Remove all paint and start sanding same as above , but instead of using a car buffer I use a high grade DIE GRINDER with polishing wheel and same as above.

I hope that this helped you out, its really not that hard but it takes a while to get the results you want. The first frame I polished and I did it the exact same way I told you took me 1 hour on each side to fully polish my frame to chrome like finish


If yoiu dont have a da sander you can always do it manually with your hands just be sure not to sand in all different directions DO NOT CROSS SAND!It gets real scratchy and cloudy looking when this happens,the key to a nicr polish job is attention to detail and time.I can do them pretty fastat this due to the amount ive done but that comes with experiance.By the time your done youll probably never want to do it again.I didnt after my first time

that helps alot, i have a d/a sander, but im going to try polishing out on my swingarm and do it manually , i dont want to get too crazy with the d/a and make more work for myself haha
thanks again

post some pics when done..good luck!

hey got my frame half ass polished, about 3 days into the job, i realized that it was the middle of prime riding season and im sitting here with sandpaper, so I put the bike back together and decided to do it at winter time, i got the main part of both sides of the frame done, i still need to do alot of detail work, and the cast part, i'll have to go over the part i've already did starting at 800 grit or so because its a little scratchy
thanks for the help though

LOOKIG GOOD,GLAD I CAN HELP.Next i would polish the lips of the wheels.

Fastrsho, or anyone else know of a site that give a good over view of doing body work. I just want to read up and get a basic education. That way my future questions can be somewhat educated.

I dropped my street bike in the parking garage! Was just pulling out of my spot, leaned over for a tight turn and I bicycle came flying out between two parked cars. I jammed the brake to avoid the collision and down she went.

Nothing serious damaged but multiple hairline scratches in the paint. I've used touch up paint before but it always went on way too thick.

What to you suggest? I was think of trying an air brush?

Kontoboy

P.S. I was due--some guy merged into my lane that morning--no signals no warning--I still don't know how we missed. And later last night I was waiting at a red light to turn left. It turned green, I paused and then looked both ways and see this lady on the phone in her big black SUV run straight through. It was a dead red--she didn't even slow. I'm so glad I looked or I'd be RIP.