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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Cellulose paint & transfers
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<blockquote data-quote="Prosper Keating" data-source="post: 9204" data-attributes="member: 1376"><p>These are horrible-looking. I recently stripped and redid a tank because it had these things - that look like those giveaway stickers from a cereal packet - and stick-on lining. A dozen coats of ordinary aerosol black, followed by some twenty coats of clear lacquer. </p><p></p><p>Atwood is absolutely right. There was a problem with the waterslide transfers but we felt that this may also have been due to the final drying processes so the tank was slow-baked in the oven - when she-who-must-be-obeyed was on a foreign trip - and hung up for a fortnight. No problems after that. A coat or two of marine varnish applied over the transfers after a few days with a modeller's brush, extending just a millimetre past the transfers, did the trick. The lining was done before the lacquering with a Bugler tool, using a brown paper template held in place with Vaseline. </p><p></p><p>The resulting finish is perfectly acceptable on a machine used as an everyday nail and is probably as good as any run-of-the-mill tank on a machine rolling out of Stevenage at the time. It would be nice to see about producing some proper period-style transfers of the kind applied with artist's size or varnish. They're not as simple as the waterslide type but there is no reason why any intelligent, careful person cannot make a decent job of putting them on his motorcycle. They are much better-looking, with more vibrant colours that last longer in sunlight, and far more durable from the viewpoint of knocks and dings. Remember your old Raleigh bicycles when you were kids? And if anyone here has ever had an original German helmet from WW2 or the 1930s with its decals or transfers in place, you'll know what I mean.</p><p></p><p>PK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prosper Keating, post: 9204, member: 1376"] These are horrible-looking. I recently stripped and redid a tank because it had these things - that look like those giveaway stickers from a cereal packet - and stick-on lining. A dozen coats of ordinary aerosol black, followed by some twenty coats of clear lacquer. Atwood is absolutely right. There was a problem with the waterslide transfers but we felt that this may also have been due to the final drying processes so the tank was slow-baked in the oven - when she-who-must-be-obeyed was on a foreign trip - and hung up for a fortnight. No problems after that. A coat or two of marine varnish applied over the transfers after a few days with a modeller's brush, extending just a millimetre past the transfers, did the trick. The lining was done before the lacquering with a Bugler tool, using a brown paper template held in place with Vaseline. The resulting finish is perfectly acceptable on a machine used as an everyday nail and is probably as good as any run-of-the-mill tank on a machine rolling out of Stevenage at the time. It would be nice to see about producing some proper period-style transfers of the kind applied with artist's size or varnish. They're not as simple as the waterslide type but there is no reason why any intelligent, careful person cannot make a decent job of putting them on his motorcycle. They are much better-looking, with more vibrant colours that last longer in sunlight, and far more durable from the viewpoint of knocks and dings. Remember your old Raleigh bicycles when you were kids? And if anyone here has ever had an original German helmet from WW2 or the 1930s with its decals or transfers in place, you'll know what I mean. PK [/QUOTE]
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