Good day today. Picked up the paint, a light metal flake silver - $23.00 CDN to do this painting. Much easier and faster with this 2 part paint scheme. The small inexpensive spray guns, $20.00 CDN, worked well with the metal flake and clear coat.
After some shopping and visiting Sonya's mother, decided to prep the last 8 pieces for painting and set up the garage to do so:
This was the maiden voyage oF the paint booth:
Attached fan to back:
The booth worked quite well. Had to remind myself to get the lazy susan as close as possible to the filter, worked better at keeping the overspray contained. Note to self, keep paint gun air pressure at 16 to 20 PSI. These are small guns with a 0.8 mm tip. Keeps overspray down. At 30 PSI these small guns do flow a lot of product, and you get a lot of overspray. Had cleaned these guns before I put them away, but it would have been good to do a cleaning before I started as the silver metal flake coverage is spotty in some spots. Not concerned as this is a 25 year old bike and you will have to get down and personal to see. Will let these parts sit for the weekend before install. Be able to use my new to me bike lift that I picked up for $100.00 CDN - too good to pass up:
Didn't buy the 1800 in the picture. Here are some pics of the finished product. This is the lower fron cowling that was red and damaged when I got it:
Will spruce up the bike after these last pieces are installed and do pics. Cheers