London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

Just wanted to add this to the proper thread.

ArmourTex Powder Coat - RAL 2003 - Orange Metallic

I could taste Fanta in my mouth when I looked at that photo.

Looks nice. Any chance of a pic of the whole frame?

Hobo, why don't you try and contact other powdercoater on colour? they may have some you want.

Forgot to add my latest bike to this thread after sticking pics of it in Current Projects...RAL 5015, with metallic sparkle lacquer (future use of this colour has now been outlawed). Forks and handlebars rattle-canned in plastikote by yours truly. Click on the link for a bigger picture, sorry not the best image quality...



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3385/...74301579_b.jpg

Even sexier in the flesh. The bike, that is.

ral2002
gloss red/orange, no laquer

Is that a scratch on top of the fork crown? ;)

bitch!

Well nioce rocksteady.

thanks, complete job just posted in current projects. av a butchers

hey 'fingaz,, i agree, er.. after this! now almost 'finished' mrs.dasmiller's ride,, had it done in 5015 ages ago, honest!



click the link for bigness, more pics in current projects if u like..

budda fingaz will be livid ! lol

Lish! What bike's that on Dwayne?

its a "stratton" or "sutton" or something starting with an "s"

heheh

i just cant remember... im sure it had 2 t's in it

Got my frame back today, 7021, kinda graphite black. It's much a much lighter colour than I thought it would be though.

Does any one know if i could take the bike away before lacquer is put on pick out the lugs and paint what ever i feel is needed and then have the lacquer put on? woudl i need special paint?

George Stratton: http://www.londonfgss.com/post691514-9503.html

Looks good.

thats lovely that is!

quick question about powdercoating, do you need to remove the forks from the frame to get it done? Or do they just do it in one go?

Yes, remove the headset.

Deserves the picture. This is one great finish, I love the decals and the way the pop out.

Slack chain.

Also interested in this, anyone know?

Edit/

After reading through the thread, I now understand this is not possible, never mind...

Im phoning them tomoz/ taking my bike to be resprayed i will let you know how it goes Alexander im thinking perhaps i will get them to spray it and do the lacquer myself it cant be that hard right...

Cheers, I'd like to know how that goes, I think I'm going to go for RAL 9001/1013, gloss. I'll post some pictures as soon as I pick it up.

be warned when i went in there they didnt have all colours in all finish the colour i wanted was only in matt and i ended up with a compromise in satin which was fine cause i didnt have my heart too set on anything

I chatted to the guy a little and he said once sprayed if you take it away they wont laquer it just because it is too hard to get it clean enough again for the lacquer to adhere properly
so i am going to pick out the lugs chuck some home made decals on and then lacquer it myself and he said i would do best to use poly urethane based paint and also lacquer but always make sure both paint and lacquer have the same bas ingriediant. I did a lil research of my own and it seems poly urethane laquer drys far harder than standard because it is basically liquid plastic.

Picking the bike up tommorow i went for a deep blue grey (cant remember the RAL code) with white lugs it should look sick photos soon

How did you do the decals on this?

When i was in their last (i seem to be going weekly at the mo!) i enquired if they had anyone who could do pinstripeing, or lug lining , and they said they had tried it a couple of times, but didnt have great success.

I suggested it might be worth having an arrangement with someone to do it for them

Damn Alex are you some kind of Armourtex runner...?

well if i have success maybe i will get them to chuck some trade my way

Armourtex RAL.. sparkly purple. I forget the number. 5001 or 4001 or something.

Does that say Level on the seat stay?

Indeed it does. Can you actually tell from that photo or are you pulling my leg? ;)

I swear it gets clearer every time I look at it but I think it's just my brain playing tricks. I will eventually mask it off and strip it back.

Pull the other one, it plays 'Jingle Bells'.

This is ace, I love the colour!

alex is your bike built up yet?

I used to work for Raleigh back in the 90's, when they actualy made bikes & we used to get our bikes & any old stuff run through the paint shop.

I got to know the paint chemist very well &he would come out with some crazy colours.

These guys are putting out some nice stuff though, a good powdercoater is hard to come by, a bit far to travel from the midlands though.

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Yeah it's built up and it looks ace in the flesh steel.

Very nice! That's just how I wanted my frame to look, but for some reason (can't remember now, lack of stock maybe) I just had to go with a flat orange.

Armourtex Cobalt Blue with gloss finish, done a month ago.

Lovely. But this post is useless without a RAL number. :)

he might have just asked for cobalt blue, like I just asked for gloss black.

Paint Nazi

Ral or gtfo

Well I just picked it off the chart he showed me, as the RAL colour I had in mind at first was out of stock.

updates on getting powder coat then paint, all this is also on another thread but i think it will help to put it up here

if you get armourtex to powder coat and not lacquer you can highlight lugs best with either sign writers paint (one shot enamel paint) or hobby paint such as humbrol enamel paint available from model shops (one in camden called hobby stores) you can then just use this and a paint brush
there was also a suggestion of filling a paint pen with enamel paint this could be easier than a paint brush

dont worry about lacquer as the powder coat is strong enough with out it and some one said that spray lacquer will make the enamel paint blister

i will put picks up of my efforts soon