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A dream of mine. Not a BMX, but has some BMX parts
Midschoolfool:
Other notes. The wheel has now been completely rebuilt also. Axle is new, and both the sealed and unsealed bearings are all brand new now too.
I *may* use a touch up brush to paint along the lines of where the carbon sheet joins in black. We will see. You can see what I am talking about with the above pics. They were still visible when I cleared them before, and, IIRC were visible when I got the wheel. It is not a flaw, it is just how early carbon was done. They wanted the wheel as light as possible back then, so did not layer on more than one single layer of matt. The wheel has a sort of sponge core, then they laid literally one layer of carbon over it, so the joins in the sheets are visible.
I am unsure if the chromacoat layer would hide this, so yeah I may indeed paint along those in black to conceal them under it. Again like I say, I will see.
Midschoolfool:
TBH that took the longest. Hours.
I got four coats in, then the rain started. I wanted five, I will take four.
2k clear tomorrow. Well, providing the weather forecast says absolutely and utterly no rain. After 12 hours the inside of the can will turn into rock, so I get one day with it and that is it.
I also treated myself.
That fookin thing cost me more than the wheel and the paint for it :LolLolLolLol: but peace of mind wins. I also got this. Hand made real leather frame pad.
Midschoolfool:
Dear god......
That's without any sunshine or clear coat.
Midschoolfool:
I would say that challenges aside (fukkin wind snapped the wire and it fell with no damage, nozzle clogged after one fukkin coat but the one from the chromacoat worked) it came out flawlessly.
Given it will be useless by tomorrow I also shot the amp controls (not the sprocket, that just got satin black at the same time) as well. Been restoring an old Musical Fidelity B1 for my care worker since last winter. Just had no good time to paint, and even now is piss boiling given the wind.
Midschoolfool:
Took the masking off last night. I know how hard 2k goes.
And the graphics I am working on.
For which I ordered this.
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