Hi! I need some help. I have worked on bikes for quite some time now but never painted one so i bought a bike frame, but the last owner went little crasy and i think he might have gone little too deep with the angle grinder. Can anyone teach me how to fix this and how could i get a good final result.
by LatterAd169
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That’s a catastrophe. It will take another 20 hours of hand work MINIMUM with different grits on an orbital sander to become salvageable and by that time you will have removed so much material it may no longer be worth the squeeze. The use of an angle grinder on a frame is egregious. If you value your time, I would put that thing on the sidewalk and find a new frame to work on. If you look on Facebook market, they are practically raining from the sky.
For me, this is a gonner, I wouldn’t bother.
You could try to salvage with a primer designed for good coverage, I forgot the name in English (ESL, sorry) but they’re super thick and fill in this kind of disaster well enough, and then hand sand it to avoid this nightmare.
Be honest, you did that, didn’t you? You attacked it with a wheel of death or something?
Edit: Primer filler or spray putty!
What in the meth phased angle grinder crazed shit is going on there?
You’re going to have to use a paint stripper and some cling wrap film to cover it to keep it wet and working on the paint, you’ll know when it’s ready to peel off and do the bits that didn’t get enough.
Sand the frame with 800 grit wet and dry + water to get the majority of the scratches out and what’s left will be sorted with primer and wet and dry over a few coats till it’s finally painted and cleared.
https://preview.redd.it/41ipbuha26xe1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4ee22efea7136a44c2d20de8c52f9f8af28e298
This is how i bought it as
FYI….if you plan on painting it, those marks don’t matter.
It will take a few extra coats of primer, specifically filling primer, but with some hand sanding, the end result could be nice.