Re: A Bike is Born, Triumph Bonne frame coat

Jan 03, 2005 7 Replies

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "JBM" saying something like:


I saw the The Discovery series, A Bike is Born, with Mark Evans,
>where he restores a Triumph Bonneville:
>
>He brush painted the frame (I cannot afford powdercoating so I'll be doing >the same),
>and he used some nice gloss enamel auto coat.
>It was difficult to see on the can the brand of the paint he used, but it
>was not Hammerite.
>Was something that ended with "*ofte", I believe.
>
>Does anyone have an idea which paint he used?
>
>Thanks, Jan
>

x-posted to uk.d-i-y, since some very knowledgeable paint bods live there.

Not Plastikote, is it?

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:48:08 +0000 (UTC), Frank Erskine strung together this:

Just what I was thinking. I remeber he used Plastikote on one of the projects.

================ It might be 'Tekaloid' which is a good brushing car paint.

Cic.

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know this bloke. If you want an email address ask me nicely and tell me where to send it :-)

Yes. A good brushing cellulose has the benefit that it may be sanded down after it's hard to remove any brush marks and then compounded to the most amazing shine.

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Thanks in advance.

Jan B. Madsen

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