Haro Gets A Makeover

Skip and I wanted to test our new IWATA spray paint gun. [www.anestiwata.com] Ryan has been riding his trick bike more lately and it needed some adjustments. We decided it would be a great weekend project.
	Taking the bike apart completely was interesting, but Skip managed. We used 320 grit sandpaper, mostly by hand, before the primer coat. We chose Napa's painted-surface primer because the expert guy says it has the best fill properties and we knew we'd have very little bare metal even after sanding. It was great, but next time we need to put the primer on a bit thicker. We did two coats, but maybe just didn't do them wet enough. Very few drips with this gun, we like it.
sanding
sanding
sanding	Ryan's friends were handy ... helping ???
The Haro emblem is actually engraved into the bike, so it will still be there when it's repainted.	To mix the bondo, we use disposable stuff. The two components are mixed to an even color and then applied. You've got about 4 minutes before it starts to set up and get grainy.
For this brand, one inch of the hardener to one golf-ball-size goo of the other. We didn't need that much at one time, so this is theoretically 1/4 of a golf-ball size of goo and 1/4" of hardener (the brick-red stuff).
painted
Metallic Black	Hugger Orange
	As you can see, we were struggling part way through :)
	Pippy helps too
We're done!
Happy :)