How do you paint motorcycle parts? homemade stand?

[crimsoncustoms]

looking for pics of homemade motorcycle stands to hold pieces to paint. Ive been hanging them but find it hard to paint sometimes with them swingin around. Thought about making a motorcycle "horse" to hold parts. How do you guys line up graphics on separate pieces?

 

[chopolds]

On paint jobs that require the graphics to line up perfectly, I usually basecoat the parts on my stands, then wrap the bike in thin plastic, and put the parts back on the bike. Do the masking there, perhaps spray as well. Then off the bike and onto the stands again, to cut in edges, if necessary, and/or finish the clearcoating.
Nothing like doing it this way, mocking stuff up (off the bike) sometimes results in not-so-good surprises!

I painted an entire bike with the parts on it, with plastic under it, as the "basecoat" was HOK pearls, going from white up front, to dark red in the back, in a seamless transition, from white-yellow-orange-red. Then Candy purple graphics went over that. Since it was a show bike, it had to be perfect.

 

[TAZ]

On paint jobs that require the graphics to line up perfectly, I usually basecoat the parts on my stands, then wrap the bike in thin plastic, and put the parts back on the bike. Do the masking there, perhaps spray as well. Then off the bike and onto the stands again, to cut in edges, if necessary, and/or finish the clearcoating.
Nothing like doing it this way, mocking stuff up (off the bike) sometimes results in not-so-good surprises!

I painted an entire bike with the parts on it, with plastic under it, as the "basecoat" was HOK pearls, going from white up front, to dark red in the back, in a seamless transition, from white-yellow-orange-red. Then Candy purple graphics went over that. Since it was a show bike, it had to be perfect.

A lot of work and steps, but It does pay off.
I know on some of the jobs I do, when I layout the graphics on mock up, once you cut the tape, and remove the pieces, you'll need to continue the tape to the rest of the edge of the part.

 

[crotchrocket]

This is how I've been doing bodywork. Cardboard mailing tubes stuck to the back with a little hot glue or bondo, then stuck to scrap wood. They stand or their own or cn be clamped to somthing vertical. When done the tubes come off easily.

 

[TAZ]

Not too bad.
If you used 36" paper log tubes, you could get them off the ground a little higher.

Great idea though!!

 

[crotchrocket]

True. I didn't use longer tubes cause I didn't want them to be too unstable. When I'm shooting, I clamp the wood to the base of a small table which raises them up, or I bungie them to a saw horse to get them vertical.

 

[gtc73]

personally, I paint my bike tins every couple of years. I have a 3'x6' flat bench set up in my spray booth. on that, I sit a 10" round LAZY SUSAN turn table. Then I sit a piece of scrap wood thats sitting around my shop, like a piece of 1/2" x 12" square piece of pine on the lazy susan, and set my bike cover(s) on that piece of wood so I can spin it as needed to get all sides and edges. Each piece requires it's on piece of wood to sit on so you can pick it up and put it aside without touching your pieces while you bring other pieces into the booth for spraying while the other pieces flash.

that covers the smaller pieces, but for the fenders and the tank I made a home made stand ....it too sits on the lazy susan. I used again a 1/2 or 3/4" x 12" square piece of pine, then screwed up through the bottom of the pine base, into a piece of 2" x 4" cut to about 12 to 14" long. On top of that 2x4 is screwed on a piece of wood about 6" x 12" x 1/2 or 3/4, again whatever I had sitting around to support the fenders or tank while sitting on the lazy susan. Again this allows me to spin the piece.

I agree, handing the piece is a PIA....at least that was my experience....maybe you can see some of these pieces in this picture;

 

[801Rider]

I also like to keep a stock of empty pints, quarts, and gallons and fill them with water for stability