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Title: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: oldschoolace on June 20, 2014, 02:34 PM
Alreet lads, looking for suggestions to maintain the raw shiney side/high spots on a set of lesters if they are powder coated. What do we reckon, labourious masking before powder or labourious dremeling after?



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Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: oldschoolace on June 20, 2014, 09:54 PM
 :tumbleweed:
Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: pickle on June 20, 2014, 09:55 PM
Can't help you but maybe SBD would know  ???
Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: chubby on June 21, 2014, 02:07 PM
I'd go with laborious masking  clint, dont want slipping dremal scratching the fresh powder  :chin:
Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: griff on June 21, 2014, 02:27 PM
What about the masking tape pulling off the powder as you remove it?  >:D
Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: fischflo on June 22, 2014, 12:00 PM
masking, cause you stay in control, the other way is fail and the oooh aaah should've listened to fischflo etc..

What about the masking tape pulling off the powder as you remove it?  >:D

powder, cause you stay in control, the other way is fail and the oooh aaah should've listened to fischflo etc..
Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: animal on June 22, 2014, 12:03 PM
Powder then flat em carefully after . Nerves of steel tho  ::)
Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: Redline on June 22, 2014, 01:30 PM
I would wet spray them... then "draw file" across the top surfaces. I would imagine paint would be easier to work with than powder  :-\
Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: oldschoolace on June 22, 2014, 01:49 PM
Did think about paint as its easy to mask with a liquid mask but would prefer the harder wearing powder. I think sanding after powder is likely to be the best solution  :-\
Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: CustardLips on June 22, 2014, 02:09 PM
Is it worth the hassle ? They look pretty tidy to me or is that a pic of their good side.  :)
Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: CustardLips on June 22, 2014, 02:10 PM
Oh just thought is a change if colour your after.  ???
Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: oldschoolace on June 22, 2014, 04:52 PM
That's just a stock photo, mine deffo need a restoration. besides I'm thinking of a radberry colour or teal  :-X
Title: Re: Lester mags... top tips needed
Post by: Gary72 on June 23, 2014, 08:52 PM
Powder or paint then block sand after. If the braking surface is bad I would give them a sanding before you paint/powder then work your way through finer grades of paper.
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