frame color

What color silver is everyone using for their frame?

Spray paint or powder coat ? I went with spray paint (auto type) so when your boots scuff up both sides of the frame you can touch it up in 2 mins. Powder coat is not so easy how would you ever match that with out looking like you tried to match the paint and it did'nt... I think I went with gm silver from advanced auto it has metalic in it but it looks dam good when dries. Check out my build in vintage resto projects under My bad 79 wr.

I was looking at your bike the other day. Looks nice. I'm doing the spray bomb job. It's a rider and like you said, it's easy to touch up.
I see you went with the 40mm forks. What length shocks are you running? I have a 78 CR250 I'm doing. I bought a parts bike with 15 inch Ohlins. Can I run the 40mm forks? Here's a photo. Not the best pic but it was tight taking it.

I use duplicolor engine paint, aluminium on the the frame with the clear coat engine paint.

Yes 40's will work , you will have to change the triples too. My shocks are ohlin remotes they will be 16" when I am finished. After you strip the frame make sure you use a etching primer first then your regular primer it should help all to stick to the raw steel better. Good luck and have fun in the process and allow more time than you think..

I have all winter to do it. With the time change it's dark at 5:15 now. So no outside playing til spring.

ORIGINAL PAINT HUSQVARNA
liquid
CHRYSLER H84
years 1988 /1993


powder electric
RAL 9006
white aluminium

For powdercoat check here:

www.powdercoatingspecialties.com for
# T353-GR938
It is supposed to be the closest match to Husqvarna Silver.
There is a 5lb min purchase at $12.00 a pound, enough to do 2 frames. You must e-mail Jack when ordering -
jack.howell@powdercoatingspecialties.com 303-278-0406



From Vintage Tech courtesy of www.husqvarna-parts.com

before frame WR 1981

after sandblasting
and powder coatings
200 C° !
(powder AKZO NOBEL
dupont de nemours )

Note - I just used the Husky club H84 paint mixture. It is the best silver match I have seen yet.
took a bit of time. I used base coat/ clear coat with enamel primer. Will post pics as soon as I can.


Much prep work - I removed the powder myself. Note : the local blast shop kicked my parts out and did not complete blasting.
Thats another story to tell !


Powder coatings have failed in two different attempts by a couple locale shops for me. Do you know your powders ?
Their are so many types of powder and how they are applied. One could not get a speck of any solvent, gas, etc ( melted ) , another the clear
second coat needed for almost all silvers - check and cracked on the base silver.

I choose to try painting - I will post pics soon. I will also post a powder coating chart to make sure you get the right kind of
powder if you do powder coating.

Please note if you use the Powder color noted above from Jim . Get a color chip first. I did. It is is very dark silver so I did not use it.
it is not husky Silver.

Here for reference is a chart of how different make ups of powder coating performs.

I did not know their is so may kinds of powder.

I am not sure how accurate a color chip is as I have never depended on them. I have never really seen an actual match between a color chip and what I get out of the spray gun.

I tried the appliance epoxy paint but there was a lot of heavy over spray. After it dries there was a rough finish. Not sure if it was a bad batch of paint or what. I wound up using duplicolor silver engine paint with clear coat.

I used the appliance epoxy on my 1984 white frame. The key is to coat in several tack coats then go a wet coat that will flow out. I got into trouble by building coats too fast and ended up wet sanding a few coats off before I got the hang of it