Recent content by JamesK

In the same vein one night after I had been working on the bike all day and was really tired I was wiping the bike down... I dropped my micro towel and without thinking pick it back up again, if there is one lesson you need to learn is NEVER touch the paint with a towel after you drop it. So I...

yup, I had the fairing cover off to install the XM module and was REALLLY careful to not mix up those bolts...

Working on the fairing this morning I worked out a scratch that's been there since I got the bike. first photo shows the scratch before I started working it, it's pretty deep into the clear. Using some 5000 grit trizact (I would have killed for that paper 40 years ago) I worked it down a bit...

It takes me a bit longer by hand but the paint on the bike does not need a lot of work to look it's best.

Ordered a Flex XCE cordless so the Miata is on hold till I get my new tool. The bike is in good shape, I've had it about 1.5 years now so light compounding, followed by polish by hand is all it needs before I coated it with Profi Ceramic. Finished the front fender today. More coming as I work...

Nice work, I did a paint job on a 32 Packard 7 passenger touring back in 1980, that straight 8 ran like a finely tuned watch.

2002 Mazda Miata, I picked up last summer. Has about 26,000 miles on it and is one of the cleanest cars for it age that I have ever come across. It's my Autocross car. Jim

Learning so much here, I've built and painted cars most of my life and really having fun taking detail work to the next level. I'm currently using what I'm learning on one of my toys, for 20 year old factory paint it's coming out pretty good. Not perfect but it's looking really nice. first...