Cleaning and painting calipers???

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cbpayne87

What is the best way I should take on this task? What did you clean them with, I know mine have lots of round cramp places that are hard to sand with sand paper. The wire wheel I have is too ruff, it eats away some of the metal, chemicals? I don't plan on taking everything apart, pistons and seals. Just going to tape the inner sides up. I was reading some other post on here about using epoxy and maybe some clear. Can some one explain that better for me? I want them Black. Thanks.... Collin
 
All, I have ever done is clean with wax and grease remover a couple of times, shot epoxy , base and cleared.
 
Here comes some ignorance out of me. Would I look good if I just painted them with black epoxy?
 
I don't know what black epoxy looks like sprayed on,:highly_amused: even if that was a dumb question. Anyways it doesn't matter I'm going follow what the man said.
 
cbpayne87;31693 said:
I don't know what black epoxy looks like sprayed on,:highly_amused: even if that was a dumb question. Anyways it doesn't matter I'm going follow what the man said.
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Here's an example (bottom of Rusty Gillis's 67 Fairlane). It looks like semi-gloss black paint. Hope this helps.
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So it might actually look pretty good by it self. Its hard to tell if those two above my last post were being sarcastic or not. Thanks Mr. Bob.
 
No sarcasm. Many of us use the black epoxy as primer and topcoat all in one for frames, underhood, and suspension components. It just depends on what you think of the gloss level, which can be adjusted slightly with reducer. I have a customer who liked the duller sheen of the SPI Hot Rod Black for underhood, and that is what he got.
 
No added reducer, reduces gloss. The more you add and the faster the reducer is the flatter they will turn out.

Max gloss, mix 1:1 and spray two wet coats back to back.
 
No added reducer, reduces gloss. The more you add and the faster the reducer is the flatter they will turn out.

Max gloss, mix 1:1 and spray two wet coats back to back.
 
I don't want to start another thread. How durable is the epoxy, would it be worth my time painting my bikes triple trees?
 
cbpayne87;31782 said:
I don't want to start another thread. How durable is the epoxy, would it be worth my time painting my bikes triple trees?
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The epoxy is durable. One test of its durability involves an epoxy-painted panel with a scratch in the coating placed in a cabinet with salt water sprayed on the panel. The epoxy still looks good after more than 40 days in the salt spray cabinet. This thread describes the results:
http://www.spiuserforum.com/showthread.php?2548-Interesting-epoxy-test
 
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