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3m makes a product called adhesive remover. I use it all the time and just used it to take all the stickers and badges from my bike before I got it ready for paint. It works great, just get as much as you can by peeling it off then just put this stuff on and it will melt the adhesive and off it comes. Paul
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If you use regular car paint and find the color match. Use basecoat clearcoat paint and just fill the chip. When it dries it will sit down into the chip, then just take a drop of crazy glue and fill till level and let dry. You might have to do it a couple of times. when it is dry you can sand with 600 wet sand paper then 1500 and 2000 then it can be buffed out with compound and if the color match is right you will never see it. Paul
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Here in Pa. Federated Automotive (big chain like Napa) has it on sell right now for $4.99 a can. Needless to say i picked up several cans. I have paid as much as $9 around here which is crazy.
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Hi how does it hold up being that it is just a double sided foam tape backer? Does it want to lift when going around tight corners or smaller areas like the air cleaner? Also on the side of the air cleaner where the splice would be do you glue them or tape them so they dont want to lift? I imagine that the straight pieces are easy and stay down nice, I was just wondering how it holds up on the smaller curved surfaces. I see so many cars with this stuff on and it seems like it lifts in spots and wants to pull off (unless they are just done wrong by the kids with the Fast and the Furious mufflers on their Dodge Neons as you know they go so much faster with those mufflers on that they just blow the chrome tape off. YEAH RIGHT!!) Paul
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Hey guys I was out of town for a few days (we have a camp up in the mountains and it is nice to get away every once in a while). I strongly suggest a gravity fed gun (the cup is on the top) Also if you are spraying big hot rod flake like the old muscle cars you will need a bigger tip to spray it. Look through house of color paints thery have everything. Go to you local auto parts store that mixes paint as they can be a lot of help as well and will have everything you need. I also suggest base coat clear coat as you need a lot less color and everything can be buffed out of the clear and you can also add candy colors to the clear to give it that nice look. If you have any questions just let me know. Paul
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Hey thanks guys I think it will be sharp when it is finished. and I want something different so I think that will be the paintjob to do. I am still up in the air on the faid yellow, red, purple or the yellow to white. I am leaning more toward the purple bottom it will hide the dirt a little better than the white. I will keep you posted with pics as I get started on it but I am hoping to get just a little more riding in before then, but I dont know we saw our first snow last night. Not much of anything but still saw some flakes. And by the way George still shreds up the fretboard 20 years later. Paul
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Hey everyone as the weather starts to get cold I am in the process of getting ready to paint the bike. I just can't stand the factory paintjobs and being that I do custom airbrush and paint work I just feel like doing something wild. I was thinking of doing a tigerstripe paintjob with the base color being corvette yellow fading down into red down to a purple fade at the bottom. The center of the tank would be the center of the tiger stripes running down each side of the bike from there. The front fairing and trunk and bags would also be painted to match. It is either that or a tigerstripe with the yellow fading to white at the bottom. It is sort of hard to explain but and I am not sure how to post pics in this forum, so if you go to my website www.bigheadguitars.com and go into the custom shop on page 4 you will see examples of both paint jobs (just click on the picture for a bigger view). I was also thinking of adding some LED lights afterward to show off the paint. Let me know what you think. Paul
