Spray Painting uni

powder Coating is very strong and durable, but can be as high as $75 for
a frame. Try using a lot of clear coat, if you are already using it, an
start if you havent.

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i'm a complete newbie about this,
what is it and where can I get it 🙂

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Do you mean a powdercoat? look up Powdercoating shops in the yellow
pages. I think and average powercoat costs a about $65, but you will
never have to paint your uni again.
Or do you mean claercoat? You can get that in the spray paint isle. all
it is is clear spraypaint, but when apllied in 3+ coats it makes a good
barrier.

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I can't really look 'em up cause I have no idea what it is in dutch 🙂
Since I live in Belgium

Last time I put on 3 caots of spray paint, but alas, Didn't last very
long

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I'll never paint another unicycle after experiencing powdercoating.
Darren Bedford had my beloved Summit powdercoated last year and after
hours upon hours of abuse the finish is still near perfect!
Powdercoating is BY-FAR the way to go!

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You cannot have any chrome or shiny surfaces on the frame. Slight
sanding of the chrome will not work. The paint won't stick to chrome.
I sand blasted one of my frames to take off the chrome, put 1 base coat,
3 coats of red, and 2 coats of clear and it is holding up fine.

Powdercoat is awesome, but it's expensive if someone else does it for
you. Luckily, I have a powdercoating machine and oven 😄

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Another thing to remember about painting your uni is that a few light
coats of paint are better than one thick coat.

*Give your frame a light sanding,
*hang it up somewhere that is well ventelated and not too windy.
*spray many light coats of paint untill your happy with the way it
looks. Then give it one more for good measure. (wait for each coat to
dry before going with the next one.)
*Some people might do a wet sanding with really fine grain sand paper
here, I don't because I'm lazy.
*Go over the frame with a few layers of clear just like you did with the
base color. Be sure not to touch the wet clear at all as you will have
some nasty looking fingerprints.

Paint will not last as long as powder coating your frame but take your
time and you should have a nice looking frame.

Also try to find enamal spray paint if you can, in my experences it
holds up way better than the regular stuff.

Cheers
Mike

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Donaldini said:

*I can't really look 'em up cause I have no idea what it is in dutch
🙂 Since I live in Belgium

*

I can't translate powder coating but a short explanation of the process
might help you find a Belgium supplier.

It involves hanging the frame on a hook and spaying a very fine powder
which is attracted to the frame by static electricity. the residue goes
past and is caught in a water trap. The frame is then moved to a large
oven which cures the paint leaving a tough finish.

I found a local company who coated my home built frame for 'beer money'.
I had to have a colour they were using for another (paying) customer but
that wasn't a problem.

Keith

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Donaldini said:

I can't really look 'em up cause I have no idea what it is in dutch 🙂
Since I live in Belgium

Powder coating =
Poedercoaten
(soms: Poeder applicatie d.m.v. electrostatisch spuiten.)

Typ poedercoaten in Google en je vindt vast een bedrijf dat het kan
doen.

Klaas Bil (Dutch)

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Kicking around silly paint ideas with another guy. We wondered if
anyone has ever coated a uni with Rhino liner- you know the spray-on
truck bed liner? I did the inside of my Jeep, but I dunno how a uni
would look done up all halloweeny like that.

Any thoughts?

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Kayote said:

*We wondered if anyone has ever coated a uni with Rhino liner- you
know the spray-on truck. I did the inside of my Jeep, but I dunno how
a uni would look done up all halloweeny like that.
*

Ben is looking to buy a Jeep next year. In our research, we ran across
a picture of a Wrangler finished on the exterior with the Rhinoliner
coating. Looks like a good choice for wheelin' in the woods. I bet it
would be neat on a Trials frame.

Checkernuts said:

*Another thing to remember about painting your uni is that a few light
coats of paint are better than one thick coat.
*

Ben had his bicycle stolen last year, which we found the next day when
we pulled the remnents out of the bottom of the lake (we had an educated
hunch). In order not to let the punks win, we decided to restore it.
We had the frame sandblasted ($10) then used good quality spray paint.
Mike is right, many light coats and lots of patience. I'm by no means a
paint or painting expert. We found that if we sprayed from too far
away, some of the paint droplets dried in the air before reaching the
frame's surface and gave the frame a rough looking finish up close.
Fine wet sanding didn't work for us because the paint film was so thin
that it sanded away in spots. So we decided to put up with the
not-so-perfect finish and keep spraying away. Sort of helped that the
color was black, I think. Eventually, we ended up with 3 or 4 coats of
color and 3 coats of clear lacquer finish. Then we gave it plenty of
time to cure. So far, so good. It's far from professional but it's
holding up fine.

Bruce

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Along with prepping the frame, nobody mentioned the most important part,
PRIMER!!!!!!!!!
Be sure to get at least a couple of good coats of primer on the sanded
or blasted frame to get the paint to adhere 😄

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I always wanted to paint my uni like this!

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A really good walk through of how to get a good finish out of spray
paint can be found here

http://tinyurl.com/5ram6

The same rules apply to painting anything, it just so happens that a
rounded uni is a bit harder and you have to be much more careful when
sanding.

This guy doesnt put any clear on his project but the time to do that is
after the finish is looking good and before you go to rubbing compound,
I would recomend applying 2 coats of clear then sanding, and then
depending on the surface do another coat of clear sand again or go
straight to using rubbing compound to get that sweet finish.

A side note I havent painted my uni with this method but have done other
stuff, it takes a long time but the finished product can look great if
you take your time and do things right.

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