Jul 302008
 

Spray GunThis is the 20 oz. 6 CFM Gravity Feed Spray Gun by Central Pneumatic from Harbor Freight. It was my weapon of choice when I decided that it was time to attempt to paint the Shoei RF-700 blue. I had painted it red last year as practice in painting and to match my VFR. I only used spray paint for that project. It was not a good match, but it worked for the time being. This old RF-700 is about 12 years old. My Dad got it back in 1996 when he got back into motorcycles with the purchase of a ’96 Harley Road King. Anyways, onto painting it blue. The past few evenings that I have had free, I sanded the old red to get it nice and rough for painting.

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Jul 212008
 

With a bit of help from Hollifield’s mad skills, I repaired and painted the VFR in preparation to sell. He began the work on Monday the 14th before leaving town. He took charge of the lower fairing that had road rash from my lowside at Arroyo Seco back in November 2006. I did not get the opportunity to document his wonderful bondo/sanding job as he already had a couple of coats of paint on it by the time I got home from work to take him to the airport. The photo to the left is a few coats into the process and no work done on blending in the two slightly different red colors.

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