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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => FZS600 Fazer => Topic started by: Paulfzs on 09 February 2015, 04:11:34 pm

Title: paint help?
Post by: Paulfzs on 09 February 2015, 04:11:34 pm

Decided my clear (clear yellow discoloured scratched) screen needed to be black and im a tight git so sprayed it (on the inside)
problem is i used gloss and it looks matt through the screen.


Anything i can do to add a shine to it?




looks amazing when wet but i dont have the time to rig up a system to sprinkle water on it constantly!


with and without camera flash




(http://i.imgur.com/7Q1VRUK.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/1rxopD3.jpg)

Title: Re: paint help?
Post by: RMT1983 on 09 February 2015, 09:27:10 pm

Buy mine you tight git!!!  :lol

Title: Re: paint help?
Post by: Doddsie on 09 February 2015, 09:59:01 pm

Spray the outside???

Title: Re: paint help?
Post by: Paulfzs on 09 February 2015, 10:11:29 pm

Quote from: Doddsie on 09 February 2015, 09:59:01 pm

Spray the outside???

itll end up getting chipped and looking terrible, i can't imagine ill get a great paint job on it either.

Title: Re: paint help?
Post by: Nebuchernezzer on 10 February 2015, 12:08:57 am

Plastic polish the outside of the screen?
Toothpaste if you're that tight ;).

Title: Re: paint help?
Post by: Paulfzs on 10 February 2015, 12:12:36 am

Quote from: Nebuchernezzer on 10 February 2015, 12:08:57 am

Plastic polish the outside of the screen?
Toothpaste if you're that tight ;) .

why didnt i think of that, i used toothpaste on my headlights didnt notice much of a difference.

Title: Re: paint help?
Post by: Frosties on 10 February 2015, 09:48:40 am

Seen as you've already got a sprayer, how about a thin coat of laquer?

Title: Re: paint help?
Post by: Nebuchernezzer on 11 February 2015, 02:14:08 am

Yeah i tried it once on headlights too and to be honest i think it's too fine of a polish.
i ended up sanding the headlights back starting with quite a coarse grit (for plastic, about 400?) and finishing up with 2500 before moving onto polishing compound...they came up very nicely.