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I could be wrong but I think most of the early paint jobs were 'wet"!How many times have we heard people trying to match an old school colour with powder with no luck... if it's a struggle to match a colour to a powder now then I very much doubt that there was a powder back then John
Quote from: cheekythirtysix on October 11, 2009, 07:43 PMI could be wrong but I think most of the early paint jobs were 'wet"!How many times have we heard people trying to match an old school colour with powder with no luck... if it's a struggle to match a colour to a powder now then I very much doubt that there was a powder back then Johnthere was powder in the 80s, infact it's been used since the 60s but only in basic colours, i thinkmany of the early 80s frames that where powdered are in the basic colours, ie black,white red ectthat's why it so hard to copy the haro greens ect,
Quote from: SuperBikeDan on October 11, 2009, 09:47 PMQuote from: cheekythirtysix on October 11, 2009, 07:43 PMI could be wrong but I think most of the early paint jobs were 'wet"!How many times have we heard people trying to match an old school colour with powder with no luck... if it's a struggle to match a colour to a powder now then I very much doubt that there was a powder back then Johnthere was powder in the 80s, infact it's been used since the 60s but only in basic colours, i thinkmany of the early 80s frames that where powdered are in the basic colours, ie black,white red ectthat's why it so hard to copy the haro greens ect, yeh Dan.. I know it was around..... but take the Redline red or yellow for example.... not seen a powder nowadays to exactly match it - so if there isn't a powder now then I would doubt there was a powder back then so does it stand to reason that it was a wet paint?From memory it chipped easily too and was easily removed with nitromors and I didn't think nitromors would touch powder?.... just an observation fella as I know you're the man when it comes to painting so I wouldn't doubt your expertise or judgement dude
Matt, Both the USA and Tai 84 framesets have grey primer underneath the paint, Don't know what type of paint it is though.The Torker frames always seem to be well painted, but the Tai frames barely have any paint on as you can see the grey primer though the top coat.Like i've said,i'm not sure what type of paint they used, but would be interested to know, or if there is a way of telling the type of paint used.