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[steve hunt]

H'i Chris just a coat of petrol proof lacquer should do the trick, or you can just leave it and fit it. Have a good Christmas and see you on new years day. Steve

[Chris Tindal]

Thanks for all your input, I'll go for a home refurb of some kind and keep it shabby(ish). Might order some proper black paint in an aerosol rather than off the shelf stuff. I think the hardest part will be the double pinstripes. Don't know about Redditch painters but the Indians used to paint them on by hand! Tim NZ well spotted, it's actually a 99 500 motor with 56 timing and clutch covers, sat in a 53 Redditch frame.

[Scalyback]

"Is it shabby chique or a rolling wreck?"



Looks like a well loved Enfield to me!

[Chris Tindal]

It's well loved Scaly but does look at lot better in the pic!

[Adrian]

The oval air filter box would look nice on there. A.

[nigelphoto]

Unfortunately petrol proof lacquer for acrylic paint doesn't do what it says on the tin - its about as effective as lip gloss on a tank. If you want a DIY paint, go to ebay and look for cellulose in a rattlecan and let it harden off for several days in a warm, dry place then it should be petrol resistant.

[jefrs]

Powder coating can be very cheap provided you chose a colour they're doing a bigger job for; black is popular. The bead blasting they use prior to powder will damage chrome but it can be masked off; talk to the powder coat chaps for advice. You will find a powder coating place in a unit in an industrial park in most towns. It's not authentic but the result is extremely tough.

[simon]

I've managed very serviceable pinstripes using masking tape cut into thing strips. If you run a Stanley knife around a roll of masking tape so you end up with strips about four or five mm wide they are very easy to apply even in quite tight bends. You can then apply so that you have as many stripes as you want. I usually do one about 6 or 7mm and one inside it at 2 to 3mm. You can then brush them on using a dagger brush (obtainable at any good art shop). I used a Humbrol enamel which worked a treat. Clearly cheating but if you burnish the tape down before and remove it as soon as you've done the lines and before the paint has time to creep under the tape the overall affect is pretty damn good.

[jefrs]

Years ago the garage applied a stick-on 'pin stripe' to our Allegro after a prang, so that one side was a different colour blue stripe to the other, doh. You can still get these plastic strips on a roll. Not suggesting use them as pin stripes but to use them as masking.

[Chris Tindal]

Thanks for all your input, just found some masking tape that's designed to follow curves, so that could be useful