welcome back to Berm Peak I'm Seth and today we're going to be doing something a little bit
different but kind of the same let me get this stuff off because I can't you guys can't hear me
ah we're going hard in the paint today or hard in the spray paint so we've been doing a lot
of bike restoration stuff lately and I've been painting little parts to color match our projects
and quite a few of you have requested a tutorial how are you painting these parts and how are they
coming out so good with just a rattle can well I'll be the first one to tell you that I am not
qualified to teach you how to paint but maybe that actually does make me the right person to tell you
how to paint because I'm not going to tell you to buy a bunch of stuff and I'm not going to tell
you to do some long complicated process okay so we have here this stem cap this goes on the top
of your stem just to put pressure on the bearings and it's a good thing to theme so I'm just going
to take this cheap bright blue spray paint that I got from the hardware store and we're going to
give it an awesome paint job so number one this is all smooth there's no way that paint is gonna
grab to it so we have to sand it now I'm gonna use 400 grit sandpaper if you're gonna get one type of
sandpaper it's gonna be this and I have here a spray bottle and there's just water in it we're
going to wet sand it so get it covered in water wad up the sandpaper a little bit and sand it
now you're probably not going to notice much of a difference when you do this we're just scuffing it
up so if I've thoroughly sanded every part of this it should not be shiny at all when we dry it off
and as you can see it's now very dull that's what we want if you see any spots that are not dull
you're going to have to sand them or the paint is not going to stick right so the next thing
we have to do is remove any sort of grime or grease so I'm going to use rubbing alcohol
and then put it in your paint booth
okay so when you're spray painting do it in a really well ventilated place like
all the garage doors open close to the garage door I'm gonna shake it up really really good
oscar you're gonna have to get out of here how many brain cells do you think he's got left
okay so the first thing I'm gonna do is just put a really light spray across this you want to start
somewhere else and do a pass when you first press this there could be little spatters there could be
a little more paint than you want and then that's going to cause like
drips and stuff so start painting someplace else and then pass the item okay so with this
kind of spray paint if you put a bunch of just little tiny light coats over it it's not gonna
come out all glossy and nice like you think when you look at the can we gotta make one last coat
that's really heavy now if you go too heavy it's going to drip if you go too light it's
not going to be all glossy so it takes a little bit of practice but I'll show you
ah now we're talking just a nice smooth coat right across it no drips or anything so
we're gonna leave that for about five minutes and then hit it with a heat gun
so here I have the item curing the more heat and the drier the air the better the paint is
going to cure and 15 minutes later it is dry it's good to go we're gonna put it on a bike
so I can show you how to look but I mean look at how shiny it is this is a really cool way
to customize your bike and it's probably one of the easiest things you can paint
and there you go add a little splash of color to your bike and this is the way that I paint a
lot of things I painted the damper switch on the sloped duro bike with cheap hardware store paint
I've taken it through the bike wash I've scrubbed it I've gotten it covered in mud it's fine
and everybody was like how did you make it look so good with cheap hardware store paint but there are
a lot of reasons why you might not want to use cheap hardware store paint let me go over that
this is automotive grade paint and it costs way way more this is like 12.99 a can and honestly
that's a rip off but you know what you're getting first of all automotive grade paint has a way
better nozzle in it so you're going to get a better spray it also has hardener in it so the
paint is going to dry way harder and more durable so when I'm painting things that are going to get
a lot of contact then I always use this and it's going to be way nastier if you inhale this stuff
even for one second you die instantly just kidding you'll die slow so on that note we're gonna paint
something else that I think gets a little more abuse the little cap on the end of the cassette
but the process is going to be a little bit different because this doesn't look perfect it
has all sorts of nicks and scratches and things in it we're going to need a lower grip so here
I have 120. it's rougher it's going to actually change the finish of this and make it smoother
so now that we've sanded down all the rough edges with 120 the correct thing to do is
to step up to like 200 sandpaper and then 320 and then I'm gonna go straight to the
400 and just spend a little bit of extra time on it because we're trying to save money here
so now I'm going to introduce something else that is not mandatory but it's nice to have and that is
tack cloth what tack cloth is is it's kind of a waxy gauze this is a great way to clean off
dust in between coats it's a great way to prep something before you paint it so here it is I'm
just going to very lightly hit it with a tack cloth and any dust that's on this thing is going
to stick to the cloth okay now we're about to use the nasty spray paint and so I'm going to suit up
if you leave like 30 seconds or so for it to dry in between it'll keep it from
dripping so I'm using a heat gun to aid in the drying process it's pretty chilly out and it's
very humid out the best place you could live is like the desert right uh the oh
the worst place you could live is a temperate rain forest which is where we are ah
stuff's gonna happen you're gonna get drips your whole setup is going to just go to hell
so let me show you what to do so we're getting it good and dry
there are only a few coats of paint on there and yet they were wet and when it went face down it
got all sorts of dust and things on it so we're gonna give it a light wet sanding again and then
we're just gonna go right back to what we were doing don't keep your tack cloth in your pocket
all right let's take this out of the curing booth and there we go
nice durable paint job they're not going to look at it from this close they're going to look at
it from this far away and that's what we're doing today painting to the lowest common denominator so
this is an inexpensive matte black stem that I got off of one of the flip bikes I want to reuse
it it's nice and short we're going to paint it graphite color it's actually going to look more
different than you think and then we're going to make it really glossy so we're going to take all
the bolts out of the stem we're going to take the cap off and we're going to paint that separately
paint is not just a color it's actually something that is on what you're painting so
if we paint the inside here it's going to affect how it hits on a handlebar so I'm actually going
to throw tape over it and we're not going to paint the inside these holes that screws
go into you get paint in the threads not good especially this paint that dries really hard
going to make it very difficult to screw things in so let's clean this up sand it down and then
we're going to mask off all the areas that we don't want to paint let's get to wet sand
we are going to take some masking tape and try our best to tape the inside of here let's try it
bam good use for rusty bolts I'll just stick them in there now we can't get any paint in there
perfect so in this case we have these bolts sticking out so we can tie
a string here and suspend it up in the air when we're painting it
now we can paint all sides of it uh now we just have to go someplace where we won't die instantly
oh look a drip we got a drip on it because I suck great thing about learning from a complete
beginner is I can show you how to fix your screw-ups which are definitely going to happen
we're going to sand down until it's smooth you're still going to see it
but you're not going to feel it if you run your finger over it and you can't feel it it
means you've sanded it down thoroughly enough some paint expert's going to be like well if
you just do it then it will never drip well I did so it dripped and so that's how to fix it
yep looking good all right now we're really gonna let this cure pretty nicely before we
put the clear coat on because as this is drying with this type of paint with the hardener in it
it's actually off gases and so if you put a clear coat over it to make it nice and glossy
too soon then those bubbles are actually going to come up into the clear coat and you're going
to see them you're going to be bummed because you're have to sand it all down and redo it okay
so the thing with clear coat is you want to lay it on really thick but you don't want it to drip
see that's the side that I wet sanded and you can't see any of the dullness now that
the clear coat's over it and as shiny as it looks now drying that's what it's
going to look like when it's totally cured all right out of the curing booth it comes
there's our stem we can screw this together in fact let's attach this to some handlebars
like I said I'm not a paint expert but when it comes to painting little things you really don't
need to be now should you get involved in painting and take it up as a hobby and start doing it a lot
the best piece of advice I could give you is to stop listening to me
go to painting experts and read books and look things up on the internet hopefully this
gets you hitting the ground running so you can restore little parts color coordinate your bike
and just have a little fun with spray paint without breaking the bank
so I hope you enjoy spray painting for those of you who do know how to paint tell us how to do
it cheaper in the comments thanks for riding with me today and I'll see you next time you