84/85 Tecate Owners and Everyone Else

[oldsking86]

Here is a photo of my painted tank

hmm that looks really nice man, what exactlly is the paint? was there a lot of prepping involved?

[moose 53]

The paint is Industrial acrylic urethane ,used for dump trucks and heavy equipment.It is gas and alcohol proof and very scratch resistant.The trick I use to get it to stick to plastic is to sandblast the plastic with a fine carborundum sand.It leaves a fine Velcro like fuzz on the plastic that the paint really sticks to,and then I sand the paint which is easy.

[scooterroo]

theres a high temp paint out there by duplicolor i believe called grabber green, thats what i used to do my t3 tank and rear fenders, it is off from the original color, but not by much. as long as you do the right prep work, it should come out fine and looks great to me.

[Tecate250]

Yeah I used Grabber Green. The paint is not very strong and flakes off easy. Thats why my bike is being painted.