Guest grisler54 Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Any one knows what type of clear lacquer to use on fork leg to protect them, Kuss I don’t want to keep polish them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator mervin Posted April 17, 2008 Moderator Share Posted April 17, 2008 Any one knows what type of clear lacquer to use on fork leg to protect them, Kuss I don’t want to keep polish them. Polish em and then coat em with WD40 or something in the mucky weather in the long run lacquer is not so good it yellows and cracks especially the modern acrylic stuff , dont use the ordinary carplan/duplicolour etc lacquer it washes off again with any solvent near it. if you must lacquer them use either palstikote clear gloss clear coat or metal protekt or halfords petrol proof lacquer, or if you can still find it cellulose, the halfords is a bit of a pain to get right best way is too put it on in thin layers and prevent runs dont worry if the finish is not good put plenty of layers on and ruvb it down with very fine wet and dry after about 6 weeks as this is how long it takes too harden merv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest grisler54 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Polish em and then coat em with WD40 or something in the mucky weather in the long run lacquer is not so good it yellows and cracks especially the modern acrylic stuff , dont use the ordinary carplan/duplicolour etc lacquer it washes off again with any solvent near it. if you must lacquer them use either palstikote clear gloss clear coat or metal protekt or halfords petrol proof lacquer, or if you can still find it cellulose, the halfords is a bit of a pain to get right best way is too put it on in thin layers and prevent runs dont worry if the finish is not good put plenty of layers on and ruvb it down with very fine wet and dry after about 6 weeks as this is how long it takes too harden merv Hi merv thanks for that, I'm going to finish polishing and leave as is to see how that turns out. cheers graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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