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what kind of paint do i use for dirt bike plastic i want something like candy apple black?

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right lets get this straight
CANDY APPLE is not a colour it is a surface finish. The colour is in the Base layer.
CANDY APPLE is clear coat that has had a proportion of paint added to the laquer and is applied in thicker coats than clear laquer to give it the same appearance of an apple dipped in hard boil toffee/candy
so you can see the object underneath.. IE like a TOFFEE/CANDY APPLE you get at a fair or carnival..
you usually use a base coat of SILVER GOLD or BRONZE or aDEEP metalic coat.
This is buffed and flatted back and sealed with a thin layer of clear coat. then the candy apple is applied
this is then cut back and sealed with clear coat...
SO you can MAKE ANY colour OF CANDY APPLE.
BUT unfortunately if it is flexible plastics on a dirt bike... it isn't going to adhere as the whole thing about candy apple is that it is a hard skin process and will flake off of flexible surfaces

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mdcbert said in January 14th, 2010 at 7:22 am

there is no such thing as a black "candy" paint.

"Apple red" is a candy color that you spray over a base color (usually silver or gold).

to get a deep black color, you paint it black then several clearcoats over the black.

Krylon makes a flexabile paint for plastics…
http://www.krylon.com/products/
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deljack05 said in January 14th, 2010 at 7:49 am

Good luck my friend. I have not found a paint yet that will stick to bike plastic. You could try to go to a auto parts store that sells paint and when you order the pain ask them to add flex additives. This will help for a while but I can tell you from experience that it will not last long. Don’t waste your money on the Krylon Fusion paint. It will last maybe 3 weeks tops.
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racefanwfo56 said in January 14th, 2010 at 8:05 am

you can not paint the plastic on your bike it will not stick do not waste your time or money. if you want to change the color of the plastic you
need to buy new plastic.
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Colin said in January 14th, 2010 at 8:17 am

Here is a heads up. DO NOT PAINT YOUR BIKE.
Krylon fusion will work. But within a week your bike will look like crap. If you get an chemicals on the bike, gas, brake cleaner, chain lube, it will melt the paint off.
The paint on the gas tank will bubble, badly. Gas needs to breath and the paint will stop that causing the paint to bubble.
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Philip P said in January 14th, 2010 at 8:59 am

right lets get this straight
CANDY APPLE is not a colour it is a surface finish. The colour is in the Base layer.
CANDY APPLE is clear coat that has had a proportion of paint added to the laquer and is applied in thicker coats than clear laquer to give it the same appearance of an apple dipped in hard boil toffee/candy
so you can see the object underneath.. IE like a TOFFEE/CANDY APPLE you get at a fair or carnival..
you usually use a base coat of SILVER GOLD or BRONZE or aDEEP metalic coat.
This is buffed and flatted back and sealed with a thin layer of clear coat. then the candy apple is applied
this is then cut back and sealed with clear coat…
SO you can MAKE ANY colour OF CANDY APPLE.
BUT unfortunately if it is flexible plastics on a dirt bike… it isn’t going to adhere as the whole thing about candy apple is that it is a hard skin process and will flake off of flexible surfaces
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Kristy said in January 14th, 2010 at 9:40 am

have you actually raced before?
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