Ok straight to the point this particular tube on my bike looks pretty ugly, some dumbass (me) tried touching it up with nail polish which I think made it worse there’s also some sticker residue on there. It doesn’t need to look perfect and I don’t want to repaint the entire frame. Is there any way to even out the paint soften the nail polish spots and get the residue off without scratching the rest of the paint. I’d honestly be happy if I could just get the nail polish and sticker gunk out of the equation.
TLDR this thang ugly help me fix it
by preachers_daughter69
4 Comments
would now be a good time to introduce you to more stickers?
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Looks like someone attempted to touch up the paint with a brighter white than the cream white color that’s on there.
Some of the darker areas on the scrapes are actually “friction smears”. Those areas can sometimes be cleaned and smoothed out by using your finger in an old athletic sock with automotive brake cleaner spray it on it – then rub the “friction smear/scrap” and watch it start to look better.
You have a lot of chips and scrapes. That’s pretty far gone. I’ve cleaned up a lot of frames and touched up paint but this is too much.
What you would really need to do is mask off the front red portion and spray the back with new rattle can paint it would be easy with just white. I would try to get some automotive rattle, camp paint and an auto parts store in the form of or acrylic enamel.
Regular enamel is for kids, model, paints, and crafts, does not drive very hard.
Lacquer dry as hard, but does not go over other pants very well they can wrinkle the under coating
Acrylic enamel is a good hybrid. In America, O’Reilly and AutoZone both carry it in a variety of colors.
These are generally not things that bike shop mechanics do but more or less bicycle hobbiests ……who used to be bike mechanics.
Remove all the parts. Strip and sand to bare frame. Rattle can that bad boy.
Goo gone removes the sticker residue. Acetone removes the nail polish. Cover the rest of the bike with stickers. It’s not a particularly collectible bike and looks like it’s your daily commuter putting in hard miles on a cool frame and parts.
Make it more ugly and death proof.