one thing I've always been curious about is if it's possible the seracote
something plastic so I'm gonna pull a plastic part off the 125 and try coating
it this should be interesting these are easy candidates right here the
caliper and rotor guard will be perfect parts that test on and they will look so
much better in black these guards are getting pretty beat-up and yellowed but
I should be able to revive him with some coating here so what I'm gonna do is
clean them up with degreaser wipe them down with acetone since I'm not really
sure if they would hold up to it soaked in acetone then bead blast them and then
see if they would take some heat through the oven
I'm not quite sure if sandblasting is safe for plastic or not I mean it
definitely Ruffins up the material which is great for preparation for a coating
but it kind of impregnates a plastic with little beads of sand so I'm gonna
wipe these parts down with acetone and then see if they can take some heat
through the oven
so I ended up cutting down the hanging wire is pretty short so that way the
parts are farther away from the heating element definitely don't want to store
it or melt them at all so seracote recommends curing plastic parts at 150
degrees for two hours so I'm gonna try these parts in the oven at 150 for like
20 minutes see if this type of plastic will hold up or not
so why seracote instead of something like spray-paint
well first off spray-paint usually doesn't hold up very well on plastic and
in my experience seracote or ceramic coating is a much more durable finish
but I'm not quite sure how it'll hold up on something like these plastic guards
which are pretty flexible and they get bent and beat around quite a bit on the
bike so what I'll probably do is finish up the coating mount them up on the bike
do a few rides and report back with how they're holding up so I've had this
stuff in the oven for about 20 minutes now hopefully there's not a pool of
plastic on the bottom of the oven no looks like they're holding up pretty
well so I'm gonna pull them out and shoot them with seracote
so it's been a full two hours of this stuff in the oven I really hope it
turned out good Hey look at that not too bad at all
so I've looked the seracote cooled down and hardened up for a few hours and this
finish actually looks pretty good although it's still a bit scraped up
from before so I'm really hoping that this type of coating holds up one thing
I was curious about with the seracote is if it can withstand the flexing of
plastic this rotor guard gets a ton of abuse when on the bike so it'll be
interesting to see if it can withstand that so right now I'm just gonna bend
the guard around kind of twist it up see if that seracote cracks at all looks
like it's holding up pretty well but now the real test will be running these
parts on the bike
I would have to say that looks a whole lot better than white now I could have
just gone out and spent 30 or 40 bucks on new guards from Honda that are
already black but you know what I'm gonna do it yourself type and this is a
fun little project and it was more of a test for a future project you guys will
be seeing soon so I'm gonna do a few rides on these guards and report back to
see how they fare it's a few weeks later never in the bike a couple times just
finished washing it up so let's take a look at these rotor and caliper guards
so far I don't see any white showing through there's a few scuffs here and
there but pretty impressive results for just spraying a coating on some plastic
house I put more hours on these parts I'll post a little update over on
Instagram with how they're holding up so go find that page it's at Cameron Imola
same spelling as here on YouTube hope you guys enjoyed this little experiment
it's really fun to do and I've got a lot more of these coming your way so stay
tuned thanks for watching and keep it prime everyone
you