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A man with no nerve by the looks of it !! its not bad for a first attempt,wait a minute I will just have a Butchers at the tank,yes its about a 1950 ‘s one. shame, its taking up some room in the delivery basket. how does he legally stand on the queens highway ?

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Talking of home made motorcycles. BBC2 9.00 tonight, James May’s Toy Story – building a full size motorbike from Meccano. May be worth watching.

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Wow! A homemade motor-cycle. Looks fun, wonder what sort of speed he gets from it? I notice the wrap on the exhaust but some sort of heat shield over that exhaust might be useful!

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Its a spray John, the same product I’ve always used, the 2 pack aerosol(iso free) Yep, have to agree, finding the right colour was a pain. But the guys I use, Automotive Paint Supplies, I’ve known for about 20 years. Been messing with cars for at least that long, friends n family who have minor knocks and scrapes, up to my brother wanting to paint his old white mk1 astra sri, purple……… always used these guys for auto refinishing products. Have never yet known them to not get a perfect match on a colour yet, no matter how old the paint. They supply all the local body shops with paint, panels, tools and consumeables too, Our old unit was next door to them and they were always flat out, busy!

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wow what a journey ! with all that information on paint codes and actually working with the mixing department most of us would have enjoyed the new experience Darren. Results look brilliant but….did you spray, or brush ? which ever way you went it really looks the biz .

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And the frame for the bottom blade…… A new blade and screws was ordered today too.

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The fuel tank has come out really well, no signs at all of the 5 dents which were in it!

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So I got some painting done this evening. The bearing carriers and the flywheel cover, I know this wouldn’t have been painted originally but it was quite badly scratched up.

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Some paint at last!!! Here’s the colour, under a spot lamp and normal lighting.

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“Theanaliser” pfffft, snigger! Sorry, couldn’t help that. I did give them the NCS code of S5040G30Y, I also gave them the HSV,RGB and HEX codes, unfortunately as they are more automotive they dont use these IDs. However, they do use PPG paint matching equipment. The sample on the inner chain cover matched the BS 220 Olive colour. They mixed a small amount, applied it to a sample stick, dried it and put it next to the colour on the chain cover. To them and me its identical, the only difference was noticed under flourescent light. But that could be down to base material, primer colour and so on.

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you know andy although I was offered it,it had been in an orchard for 10 years plus and its only cover from the weather was a corogate metal sheet.it was to far gone for me to get 100 per cent enthousiastic over so that’s what happened and he, the owner realised it was to bad for me and moved it on.,

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Make sure the pump is suitable for the solvent/paraffin based cleaners, if its the sealey or clarke it should be fine……You can mix paraffin and solvent based cleaners to make it a bit cheaper. I do 50/50 mix. Dont buy the water based parts wash solution, I have about 20 litres of the clarke stuff, not much good!

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Well done for trying. Will not be seen much in flouresent light hopefully more in natural light at shows etc. So they had not got theanaliser then.

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Have been to the paint suppliers today, taken the chain cover from the Atco with me. The paint on the inside is in really good condition. We T cut and polished a section of good paint, put it under both natural daylight and flourescent lights, We had both RAL and BS charts/chips, compared about 10 different close matches but the colour which matched perfectly under natural light is BS 220 Olive……….. There is a minute difference under flourescent light, but is barely noticeable. Hope this helps!

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well ime enjoying my self anyway, but joking apart i think when i take this to a show there will be a lot of head scratching going on cos ime making a badge up for the front naming it Paul/ sorry i meant pull

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