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Engine Paint?
Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 9:50 am
by JamesL
Post the Welsh Weekend my next upgrade is to touch up the engine paint where the OE coating has spalled off mainly around the headers, but also the fins / water trap inboard from the rocker covers. In the past I've used POR-15 high temperature silver. It's a reasonable match and has performed OK except it has a tendency to go yellow after a while. So, just wondering if there's an 'official' paint one can use? If not I'll carry on with POR. Ta! J
Re: Engine Paint?
Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 6:22 pm
by dave the german
Hammerite smooth rite silver is a pretty good match or look up RS Motorcycle paints
Re: Engine Paint?
Posted: Mon May 22, 2023 7:27 pm
by JamesL
OK, ta, I'll have a look. I blow hot and cold on RS paints. The colours are a good match but are water based so you need to apply the lacquer to fix them. Trouble is, the pots of lacquer go off in a few months so if I find myself having to order more in each time... Anyway. I'll check out Hammerite and see what's what. J
Re: Engine Paint?
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2023 3:18 pm
by KTM AL
Did you use silver Hammerite on your engine? If so how did it go?
I have used it on fork legs ect, but not on an engine.
An 1100S project coming up and it will need a bit of tidying around the engine. Cheers
Re: Engine Paint?
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2023 4:12 pm
by dave the german
Search for posts by RSBowling. He painted the engine with Smoohrite and made a really good job of it
Re: Engine Paint?
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2023 4:23 pm
by dave the german
Search RSBowling there’s more than one post but if you look up “winter project “ you’ll see the results of his paint job
Re: Engine Paint?
Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2023 10:40 am
by KTM AL
dave the german wrote:Search RSBowling there’s more than one post but if you look up “winter project “ you’ll see the results of his paint job
Cheers