Trimble respray (spot the respray) complete

[cherrybomb]

I've heard that said.

 

[JustKev]

Tony - are you painting it in the flat?

 

[tintin40]

Will be spray painting in the garden when I can get to it. Will be returning the frame to black.
Did a couple of min's of rubbing last night.

 

[stew-b]

oh look,fibreglass lol how did they ever get away with calling these carbon?

 

[tintin40]

Or even 'advanced composite'

 

[Croydian]

Stripping...

Check out Bettablast.co.uk in the blast section they have all the different blasting media shown, I'm sure Bill would give a quick reply as to which one would do the Trimble. He's really helpful and has done some impressive work e.g. Donald Campbells Hydroplane.

 

[hamster]

I'm used to this problem for lightweight sailing racing dinghies. Nitromors is too aggressive - it can be used but you have to be very fast. There is another formulation for stripping GRP, but it's not so good.

I would only recommend stripping if the base cost has failed and it's peeling. Otherwise a gentle rub down to key it nor the new coat is fine.

Usually most damage to GRP is done by breaking the outer gel coat. The glass fibres absorb moisture from the air and it all then weakens the structure.

The watchword is gentle.

 

[tintin40]

Ready for undercoat (pictures on page one)

 

[retrobikeguy]

I cant believe you sanded down that one :shock:


that was a class paint job

 

[tintin40]

I cant believe you sanded down that one :shock:


that was a class paint job

Sorry Lee. Yes a sweet job. But I never did like it. And had always planned to respray back to the orignal black