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Jan 7, 2006 | 04:50 AM

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I am restoring a 77 highboy and I want to paint my frame silver. Wondering what would be the best kind of paint to use. Thanks.

Jan 7, 2006 | 05:08 AM

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Jan 7, 2006 | 09:15 AM

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Not silver paint that's for sure.

It may look nice at the start but after a while it will be awful.

If you have the money, powdercoat it a silvery grey.

Jan 7, 2006 | 04:34 PM

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I think silver would be fine on a frame. A good base coat-clear coat with a couple extra coats of clear should work fine. Yes, it will get chipped up, but it's faily easy to touch up. Powder coating is of course harder to chip, but very difficult to color match on touch ups. Even powder coating will chip.

Jan 7, 2006 | 08:01 PM

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Cheap alternative - Tremclad makes a silver/grey roof paint for tin roofs on old houses. Specially formulated to sit up there on a boiling hot or freezing cold steel roof and take the elements.

Jan 8, 2006 | 02:24 AM

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Look at Rust Bullet, I just did my frame with it and then topcoated it gloss black but they say you don't need a topcoat, I almost left mine silver, it looked pretty good.

Jan 8, 2006 | 01:46 PM

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I find the silver oxidizes and rusts at a greater rate than other colours.
That's the only reason why I suggest an alternative colour.

To see rust form on a newly painted frame ....to me would suck

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Jan 8, 2006 | 06:48 PM

Dave Severson

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I guess I haven't seen much problems with rust or oxidation on properly prepped and applied base coat/clear coat on any surface......

Jan 8, 2006 | 06:56 PM

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eastwood's rust encapsulator has silver as a color option

Jan 8, 2006 | 07:26 PM

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Silver huh? I would paint your frame with any top-coatable paint of the best quality you can buy and just top coat with a compatible silver paint. I have yet to run into any aluminum/silver/chrome/gold paint that was any kind of duarable.