Sun Worksop Re-Paint

>> Friday, 3 July 2009

The last paint job I did on my frame was bloody awful so I decided to give some enamel paint a go and to at least try and strip the frame properly first. I busted out some Nitromors and it beat the living daylights out of the graffiti paint, it came right off. Unfortunately as soon as the Nitromors had done its job it started pissing down so I had to paint ANOTHER frame in a dark, small, filthy shed in damp weather. I primed and painted it blah blah blah, then made a truly pathetic attempt at baking the enamel dry using a rotating heater, they paint still wasn't fully hard this morning and I ended up leaving some fingerprints on the top tube but they may come in handy one day! I can't be bothered to write any more now, if it's boring to write then it must be really boring to read.

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
Primer, enamel gloss, Nitromors, Bianchi cap, Silver Jews t-shirt, boosh!

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
Ready for action

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
As dangerous as they make out?

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
Within seconds!

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
Within minutes...

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
...fizzle, fizzle

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
After some chiselling

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
Mostly free of paint

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
Primed in the shed

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
All the bits wait patiently

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
A pathetic attempt at baking the enamel dry

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
Looked nice in the morning

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
Ready for work

sun worksop frame fixie fixed spray paint red swansea wales
Outside Exist in town

3 comments:

Beks 15 July 2009 at 16:45  

Would be really good if you could write up a step by step how-to!

tfrancis 16 July 2009 at 21:48  

the colour is really not all that in the flesh, haha.

bex, i was gonna write a step by step but i got bored, maybe next time (please don't let there be a next time!)