They've held up, but they don't get near as hot as exhaust pipes. They were also easier to sand since they didn't have that many strange angles.
-Kyle On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Kurt Nolte <vturbine.po...@gmail.com>wrote: > So it's held up through use pretty well, then? > > I'm planning to hit most of the rust with a wire wheel (I have brass ones, > yes) and then probably some high phosphoric acid content "rust converter" > that I've found works well on automotive rust. Iron Phosphate is a neat > underlayer for paint. > > One of the big pieces is a set of stock pipes I got from another list > member. Most of the chrome still looks good on the cones, but the cross pipe > area and some of the header pipes are starting to rust pit, so given my > chrome=meh outlook on life (Applies to browsers too...) I figure I'd like to > paint those areas black. They get hot enough to actually cure the exhaust > paint I have, so that's even better, but that's a lot of oddly shaped real > estate to be sanding and priming and wet sanding and priming. > > -Kurt > > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Kyle Munz <kyle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I picked up some OEM crashbars from a junkyard last year.They were chrome >> and my bike is black so I painted them. I didn't strip the chrome off >> though, I just cleaned the rust off with a brass wirewheel, roughed them up >> with some 600 and 400 grit sand paper, then primed them wetsanding with 2000 >> grit between coats. I kept priming and wetsanding until no chrome showed >> after a sanding. Then I sprayed them with gloss black wet sanding between >> each coat until the primer no longer showed through and a couple more coats >> after that. They turned out pretty well, even with bug splatters and rock >> chips. >> http://munz.kicks-ass.net/nighthawk/?p=312 >> >> >> -Kyle >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Kurt Nolte <vturbine.po...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> So, I have some chrome bits that I would like to make not-chromed. >>> >>> Anyone know of a good way to strip chrome to give me a good base payer >>> for the paint? >>> >>> -Kurt >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lov...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nighthawk_lovers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lov...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nighthawk_lovers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lov...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nighthawk_lovers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lov...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
