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03-10-2010, 11:20 PM MotoMartin Joined on 03-02-2010 Oceanside California Posts 36 Seat pinstriping - who has painted it? I bought a new seat cover and it looks plain and non-stock, I'm thinking about buying the BDesigns seat pinstriping kit, http://bdesigns.ca/1982_CX500_NorthAm.htm has anyone out there done this? How did it turn out? Any tips?    Report

05-28-2010, 3:20 PM Moose Joined on 05-13-2009 Southampton, England Posts 37 Re: Seat pinstriping - who has painted it? I haven't done a turbo seat but have done some stencilled paint on 60's motor scooters a few years back. The biggest problem that I had was getting the paint viscosity just right, if it was too thin then it did osmosis runs in all of the grain effect. On the other hand if it was too thick then it tended to peel. It took a lot of tries to get it right and I was pleased that I spent a lot of time practicing on some spare cover material that the fella had given me, if you get it wrong it is a total pain to try and remove it with thinners. My advise would be to get some vinyl material and take a whole lot of time to get it right , maybe even use a viscosity meter to measure what works, something I didn't do unfortunately. Final thing, it was far better to be too thick on the viscosity than too thin, as too thick will at least peel when dry, albeit still a dog of a job to do!! CX650Tcd currently not running CX650Tcd (in boxes) CX500A, First bike I had bigger than 200cc(Now sold) BMW R1100GS Various beaters/clunkers I think 18 in all now    Report

06-15-2010, 10:03 AM slipchuck Joined on 04-26-2007 canada Posts 309 Re: Seat pinstriping - who has painted it? <BLOCKQUOTE><table width="85%"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/cs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>MotoMartin wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4">I bought a new seat cover and it looks plain and non-stock, I'm thinking about buying the BDesigns seat pinstriping kit, http://bdesigns.ca/1982_CX500_NorthAm.htm has anyone out there done this? How did it turn out? Any tips?</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE> I haven't done my seat yet but just finished the side vinyle sitckers and they were very tricky indeed. I got the color numbers and then went to a sign shop to buy the material. I would first try to buy some 3M pin stripe masking tape (avalible from 3/16" and up) and try to reverse mask on some practice material. this stuff isn't cheap, but you only have one shot on the 50 dollar stencil you get from him so far I tried a paint marker and it seems to stay on very well. duplicolor makes a vinyle paint I am going to test as well good luck cheers randy Save a child with cancer! http://www.csolve.net/~randyroi    Report

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