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powder
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:06 am
by eddie
My trix is going to be off the road for a looooong time
So I am thinking of stripping it down and
Gettin the frame powder coated a different
Colour
Do I have to get the frame blasted or can they
They coat over the existing powder coat
Any advice welcome
Re: powder
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:55 am
by Rod.s
eddie wrote:My trix is going to be off the road for a looooong time
So I am thinking of stripping it down and
Gettin the frame powder coated a different
Colour
Do I have to get the frame blasted or can they
They coat over the existing powder coat
Any advice welcome
The frame needs to be blasted back to bare metal for the plastic (powder) to adhere to the steel.....
Re: powder
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:44 pm
by Bullet
Just degrease it, the powder coating firm will blast it themselves.
Re: powder
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:59 pm
by eddie
Just got a quote from nw coating in chorley
Blasting and coating 83 squid
Sounds like a good price to me
Re: powder
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:04 am
by xxr55
What colour? Had mine done red, love it.
Re: powder
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 6:38 pm
by eddie
I was thinking of a orange frame
Black tank fairing and seat
With an orange stripe or stripes
Down the tank
Watya reckon
Re: powder
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:30 pm
by Carlb1058
eddie wrote:I was thinking of a orange frame
Black tank fairing and seat
With an orange stripe or stripes
Down the tank
Watya reckon
S'upside down to mine
my frame was silver now black, was the Dark Blue/Green now Laverda orange tank, fairing etc, and I finally (digits crossed) get my orange fade to silver wheels (were gunna be white but changed me mind) today although he said yesterday was today but yesterday turned in to tomorrow's today so I'm hoping today today will be the day coz I can only clean underneath the bike some many times
In short if you can work a paint/graphics program on a computer there's a few line drawings of TRX's on the Interweb that I used to finally narrow down how I wanted mine to look. If you can't find em gimme a yell I've got left side view and top down view from the manual. It gives a good idea of what things will look like before comitting to paint, then finding after it's done you need comitting
Re: powder
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:16 pm
by xxr55
eddie wrote:I was thinking of a orange frame
Black tank fairing and seat
With an orange stripe or stripes
Down the tank
Watya reckon
Sounds like a great colour combo to me, some KTM's look great in black with the trestle frame in orange. I like it when the frame 'pops'
against the rest of the bike. The TRX frame is cool
, why not show it off.