MCHardmanUK
11-12-2006, 03:07 PM
This is a general guide for rawing any part of your bike.
The Quick Way: Sand Blasting:
It will cost but find a local body work shop or powder coating business and see if they will strip your frame with the good old sand blaster. I've had quotes of £50 for my frame, bars and forks so expect it it be around that price.
Materials 1000 - 2500 wet and dry paper.
Drill
Vice
J-Clamps
Wire Brush Atatchements
White Spirit.
Dremel
Nitromous
T-Cut (Super Fine Liquid Sanding Solution)
Merr (Polish)
Old Tooth Brushes
Old rags or newspaper.Instructions
Step 1:
Right the first thing to do is strip down the parts you want to raw.
If you have a vice or J=clamps then use those to hold the parts in place on a work bench.
Step 2:
Once you have isolated the parts and secured them in place take out the drill and use a large volume and diameter wire brush atatchment. Proceed to sand of that paint until you can see bare metal.
Continue until you have stripped the entire part of its paint. Don't worry if all the paint isn't off in the hard to reach spots, thats the next part.
Step 3:
Swap over the wire brush atatchment for a thin, small diameter wire brush atatchment and proced to repeat Step 2 in the spots that are hard to reach.
Step 4:
Now with a Dremel contnue to touch up any areas that have not been completely stipped of te paint.
Step 5:
Once the whole part has been stripped and the bare metal is showing take fine grades of sand paper or wet and dry paper and proceed to sand the frame until the stratches and guges made by the drill and Dremel have been removed. Keep checkingt he part for stratches and if you see some use an even finer paper to buff them out.
Step 6:
Right now to make the part shiny. Take a polish, I suggest Merr or T-Cut as it has super super fine particles of grit in it and proceed to polish the part all over. Fine a clean cloth and buff that part to the next leveland ow and behold you'll have a rawed and polished parts.
NB: If you don't want a polished part, just rawed then don't do Step 6.
The Quick Way: Sand Blasting:
It will cost but find a local body work shop or powder coating business and see if they will strip your frame with the good old sand blaster. I've had quotes of £50 for my frame, bars and forks so expect it it be around that price.
Materials 1000 - 2500 wet and dry paper.
Drill
Vice
J-Clamps
Wire Brush Atatchements
White Spirit.
Dremel
Nitromous
T-Cut (Super Fine Liquid Sanding Solution)
Merr (Polish)
Old Tooth Brushes
Old rags or newspaper.Instructions
Step 1:
Right the first thing to do is strip down the parts you want to raw.
If you have a vice or J=clamps then use those to hold the parts in place on a work bench.
Step 2:
Once you have isolated the parts and secured them in place take out the drill and use a large volume and diameter wire brush atatchment. Proceed to sand of that paint until you can see bare metal.
Continue until you have stripped the entire part of its paint. Don't worry if all the paint isn't off in the hard to reach spots, thats the next part.
Step 3:
Swap over the wire brush atatchment for a thin, small diameter wire brush atatchment and proced to repeat Step 2 in the spots that are hard to reach.
Step 4:
Now with a Dremel contnue to touch up any areas that have not been completely stipped of te paint.
Step 5:
Once the whole part has been stripped and the bare metal is showing take fine grades of sand paper or wet and dry paper and proceed to sand the frame until the stratches and guges made by the drill and Dremel have been removed. Keep checkingt he part for stratches and if you see some use an even finer paper to buff them out.
Step 6:
Right now to make the part shiny. Take a polish, I suggest Merr or T-Cut as it has super super fine particles of grit in it and proceed to polish the part all over. Fine a clean cloth and buff that part to the next leveland ow and behold you'll have a rawed and polished parts.
NB: If you don't want a polished part, just rawed then don't do Step 6.