Is there such a creature??
Yes,but the only way you get a true clear coat from a aerosal can is if you buy the 2K. Which is a two part clear. Eastwood sells it and a couple others. Easy to use and works good. wear a respirator.
Should have provided more info...sorry.
Going to try to get all the parts pulled from my chopper and swapped to the other frame over next winter. Going to have a bare fuel tank, oil tank and fenders. Don't want to put any $$ into the body work until after the bike is ridden and any bugs that may be present are chased away. Was going too just rattle can prime it...but the 1.6 miles silty dirt road out is going to be a nightmare to keep it even remotely clean with the porosity of primer. Suppose I could prime/sand/prime/sand but if I can just hit with a clear coat just seems to make more sense...at least from my fuzzy point of view...
I like it,Ink. (your concept...) Don't prime it..... If you have access ,to a local Napa, see if the can put clear into a rattle can. (When I used to mix Martin Senour paint, you mixed paint straight off the toner banks, could load it in a spray can.) An outside option Doug, that Eastwood setup , is interesting.
Thanks. Meant to ask the NAPA I deal with but forgot when I was last there. Plan is for it to be a short term thing...but knowing me it will become permanent. Thanks to the dirt road the chopper gets washed with a pressure washer. Have a pump style weed sprayer filled with Simple Green. Spray it down, rinse it off and hit it with the air hose to dry it. With that being said really don't see the point of painting it...I like it,Ink. (your concept...) Don't prime it..... If you have access ,to a local Napa, see if the can put clear into a rattle can. (When I used to mix Martin Senour paint, you mixed paint straight off the toner banks, could load it in a spray can.) An outside option Doug, that Eastwood setup , is interesting.
With that being said really don't see the point of painting it...
I assume you're referring to the frame primarily. Have you put any thought into powercoating it? It is a very hard, durable, lower cost alt to paint...
well my clear is engine paint clear. I didnt relize that you wanted to clear paint. Thats because I'm stupid and drink to much! :drinkers:
Off topic but..
Is there such a thing?
Unless you are out of your favorite beverage or flat on the floor then you do not drink to much!
Rattle can clear is fine if your just hitting small pieces and just want to protect them better.
Thanks. Meant to ask the NAPA I deal with but forgot when I was last there. Plan is for it to be a short term thing...but knowing me it will become permanent. Thanks to the dirt road the chopper gets washed with a pressure washer. Have a pump style weed sprayer filled with Simple Green. Spray it down, rinse it off and hit it with the air hose to dry it. With that being said really don't see the point of painting it...
Back home we use to use liquid laundry detergent mix with a wster 5 to 1 water in a spray bottle on motocross bikes didn't have to use high pressure washer then as it pushes dirt into seals etc and kot as harsh as simple green
I never pull the soap nozzle out of the pressure washer so I don't have any troubles with gunk getting past seals...
Visited my buddy at NAPA today. His store hasn't mixed paint in 20 years or so. He has a lacquer ready to squirt clear coat....
Should have provided more info...sorry.
Going to try to get all the parts pulled from my chopper and swapped to the other frame over next winter. Going to have a bare fuel tank, oil tank and fenders. Don't want to put any $$ into the body work until after the bike is ridden and any bugs that may be present are chased away. Was going too just rattle can prime it...but the 1.6 miles silty dirt road out is going to be a nightmare to keep it even remotely clean with the porosity of primer. Suppose I could prime/sand/prime/sand but if I can just hit with a clear coat just seems to make more sense...at least from my fuzzy point of view...
There is a NAPA that deals only with paint I believe here in Spokane. At least I think there is. There is a real good paint supply house on Market St.,Wow... I don't know about where you are at, the Napa distribution center for your store,should have a paint mixing bank in house your store can order from. I know Eastwood Products is doing catalyzed enamels in rattle can,as well.
Thanks for the info on the plastic wrap. A neighbor is going to do the body and paint when I want it done. Mike has a machine fromCheck out Eastwood's Elastiwrap. It will cover your sheet metal & protect it, then when you're ready to do the bodywork & painting on it you can just peel it off.
If you try to clear coat right over bare metal it really won't adhere to the bare metal. Bare metal has to be etched & primed for the paint to bond. Also you will hate it when you have to strip it all down to bare to recoat or do bodywork.
http://www.eastwood.com/paints/elastiwrap-coatings.html
Will not be spraying it, if I do, over anything that gets hot.I just did the eastwood hi temp clear and am not real impressed. At first it looked beautiful over the engine paint, then once the heat hit the engine it wrinkled real bad on the valve covers. I have them off now stripping them and starting over.