Modern Vespa

It's getting to the good time of the year to paint in a outside rig like that. Cool, dry, sunny days are the best!

Cool set up!

(Down here that thing would double as a sweat lodge.)

75 degrees and low humidity here. I got lucky.

I resent that! 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

Today I learned never to underestimate petrol as a cleaning agent....

I favor 100LL avgas. Works great and I have access to a good supply. 😉

Avgas that's tje best fuel, zero ethanol and pinking free

Ah if only

Paint is down, and It was a bit tight.
New paint suit didn't have a hood . Lesson learned! :rofl:also need to upgrade exhaust fan!

Almost like you planned that! The eyelashes set it all off. Reminds me a bit of the 80's.The first big part I painted turned everything blue in the makeshift paintbooth/bathroom at my work.

I present to you the perfect 20 ft. Paint job!
Still learning, but making progress.
1 bug and a couple of intern hairs in the paint, could be worse. But no runs and minimal dry spots.

That looks pretty darn good to me

Looks good from my house!

Bitchin!!

Trying to make sun tea without looking like a drug lab.

I don't have the knowledge or the stones to pull that off. And don't kid yourself, it looks great
Good man, JH.

Isn't half the fun of making sun tea looking like a drug lab?

When you've boiled down all the other problems...

You said keyload!! Drug lord! Arizona is the best place to make sun tea. Over here takes 8 hours!

Intern hairs! Lolz.
Looks really good. I bet it's perfect from 2 feet, not 20!

Day 2 of 20 ft paint.
I think I'll stick to smallframes for paint, fewer parts!

Have you ever heard of a "Lambretta?"

Owned a few, painted one. Never again!

Getting the band Minarelli back together. Should get the rebored cylinder and piston back this week. In the interim, I have bolts to clean and a seal set to find.

I dont make sun tea in the UK.. weather is not predictable enough

Sounds utterly delicious and refreshing though

So after my two steps forward (successful rally ride route plan, Riverside painting completion), I had a bit of a step back...went to go to the grocery store and realized there was Riverside blue overspray on the car.

So I spent a couple hours cleaning that off. I'd say I got 95% of it using acetone and microfiber cloths, which may have to be good enough.

Not my best move.

Whoops! maybe the car would look good in two tone?

Ouch! When I used to paint houses, the boss missed sealing up a garage vent. My job was only shooting paint, no prep. The black Jeep Comanche truck with matching shell in the garage was covered in white paint. Boss said it was my fault, I told him to pound sand and continued spraying. Took him a day and a half to clean it off.

Doing a buddy a solid. He was having trouble finding anyone to reassemble his CB160 engine.

Clean parts and inventory the bits first.

itty bitty polka dots Oof. This whole experience makes me realize how lucky I got that this is the only time it happened. I spent close to two and a half hours cleaning it off.

Mrs. SoCal banished me to the patio for this

Saturday when I sprayed my frame, I noticed a funky hair sticking out from between the top of the horncast and frame. We have different types of tweezers in the booth for picking out junk that gets in the paint between coats. Game changers.

That engine looks tiny all taken apart. Cool looking crank.

Been there, done that. I've rebuilt a lot of Honda engines while working at a Honda dealer back in the early 70s. My first thought when I saw that was "I bet I could assemble that, even all these years later".

Yours or ChandlerLady's?

Mrs Chandlerman's. We only have the one car and I normally just ride if I'm going somewhere by myself.

Spin it as a new styling exercise. Candy Button finish for tactile enjoyment and retro-style cred. So you're telling us this could still lead to an explosion?

Been there, done that with a very similar situation. But my friend knew i had automotive painting experience so he begged me to remove all the white speckles off of three different cars that the rest of his crew oversprayed. I spent three full days spiffing up those cars outside in the cold winter time rain up here in oregon. It was a VERY unpleasant job.

At my job (hospital) I spotted a rolling cabinet in the basement that was waiting for the dumpster truck...



The top is covered in small residues of sticky plaster that has eaten the plastic surface ! Plus a lot of acetone drops through the years of service... A drawer is stuck. No keys for the lock

Took the thing apart, all panels are riveted, no screw, very solid construction.





Fixed the issue with the drawer, sanded the top then applied 2 coats of 2k Raptor liner, et voila !

A brand (almost) new tool cabinet !



Also installed a new lock

Top marks! Nice save.

Only fault is in the removing of the Cardic Shocka sticker.
(Hmmm. Maybe we need to get one of those for Chandlerman.)

O reports popping out of gear at high RPMs…