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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 24125" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p>A friend did what looks a super job, using Simonize Engine Enamel, on his Shadow covers. He used about 6 tins. Slowly does it... It has the advantage that if the motor is clean, it can be done without insinuating crunchy little bits of silica into your engine's sensitive little crevices. I should have asked him if he prepped it, normally by using an acid-etch medium, but I didn't. He may not have. I can't remember if he did the heads and barrels, I think not. </p><p>I used Polycote gloss as advised by "well known experts" on my Shadow covers. The finish is best described as "dull" although I may be guilty of exaggeration. It might be worth using a metal prep spray, often phosphoric acid, like the ones supplied by Frost / Eastwood / Restom. </p><p>This response is governed by my aversion to stripping the castings to the bare bones, screwing them all together, blasting them with a medium always erroneously described as "non-invasive", and either spraying them or dipping them in the heated 20 gallon drum of Pinchin and Johnson stove enamel that I don't have. </p><p>If life is too short to stuff a mushroom (Shirley Conran) it certainly isn't long enough to go through the procedure above. So I would go for Simonize.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 24125, member: 4034"] A friend did what looks a super job, using Simonize Engine Enamel, on his Shadow covers. He used about 6 tins. Slowly does it... It has the advantage that if the motor is clean, it can be done without insinuating crunchy little bits of silica into your engine's sensitive little crevices. I should have asked him if he prepped it, normally by using an acid-etch medium, but I didn't. He may not have. I can't remember if he did the heads and barrels, I think not. I used Polycote gloss as advised by "well known experts" on my Shadow covers. The finish is best described as "dull" although I may be guilty of exaggeration. It might be worth using a metal prep spray, often phosphoric acid, like the ones supplied by Frost / Eastwood / Restom. This response is governed by my aversion to stripping the castings to the bare bones, screwing them all together, blasting them with a medium always erroneously described as "non-invasive", and either spraying them or dipping them in the heated 20 gallon drum of Pinchin and Johnson stove enamel that I don't have. If life is too short to stuff a mushroom (Shirley Conran) it certainly isn't long enough to go through the procedure above. So I would go for Simonize. [/QUOTE]
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