painting drums and backplates

dominicbeesley · Jan 17, 2014

On the 109 I'm very slowly restoring I want to repaint the brake back plates and maybe the drums. It looks like the originals were powder coated will red oxide and chassis black do on the back plates? What to use (if anything) on the drums?

Cheers

D

oxides · Jan 17, 2014

Enamel (can you still get Japlac?) over red oxide seems to work but there's all sorts of newer solutions. My son has just sprayed a roll cage with Rustoleum satin straight onto the bare steel and it looks good.

divie · Jan 17, 2014

Painting black is fine but to save the effort consider powder coating. I was always against it and still am for some applications. This week I have had a wheel hub and wheel rim for my 1929 bike coated for £15 including blasting. The results are amazing.

Land Raver · Jan 17, 2014

Red oxide and black Hammerite on mine. So far so good

oscar03 · Jan 17, 2014

painted mine with red hammerite straight to metal, that was 3 years ago. still fine now

onecelledcreature · Jan 17, 2014

ive been spraying the back plates with red oxide and hammerite silver. putting new drums on, but probably wouldn't paint old ones if i was keeping

dominicbeesley · Jan 17, 2014

Cheers lads,

I'm not a fan of powder coating, I could probably get it done for free or price of a pint if I wanted but had too much disappointment in the past...

I'll red oxide the drums and red oxide and chassis black the back plates (I've got a lot of chassis black!)

Cheers lads

D

mrchurchill109 · Jan 17, 2014

Sprayed mine out in primer and gloss black over top, and did the drums in grey (because I like the colour).

Still looks good years on.

ajr

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