Painting CF

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Do the carbon pieces hold paint well?

 

[Arik F]

Virtually every piece of decent CF is painted with a clear coat to help with UV protection.
Does that answer the question.
Caio

 

[BriarKat]

What about covering up some of the CF with paint? Paint over the clear coat, or sand it down and paint it?

 

[The Viking]

Just scuff the clearcoat and paint over it. Then re-clear, buff and shine.

 

[monkeylovespeanuts]

sweet - thanks!

 

[syazdefined]

Why would you do that?

 

[Racas]

had to replace some pieces after a wreck. i don't like having too much CF on my bike, but I want some on the nose and some on the tail. so I'm buying CF parts and painting over parts of them to limit the exposed CF

 

[I heard from a bird....]

Naw, painting it is no good.....as you can see mine is starting to fade....

 

["Vet"]

The Surface is epoxy, we (in the aircraft industry) paint everything. apart from the fact we don't use woven layup, but Uni Directional ply's. So you would just see a black texture of the top ply. Not the nice woven texture. Hence the term black metal..

Love the effect Smeegle..

 

[Rrrrrrrrrrrrr]

same as paint on anything really as long as its prepped properly it'l stick.