Help! Yellow Grizzly
12-13-23, 05:53 PM
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Help! Yellow Grizzly
I picked up an '86 Bianchi Grizzly which some genius spray bombed yellow. The original paint looks to be in good shape underneath. I tried some removal with acetone which is pretty slow. Anyone have a suggestion which might speed the process up whilst not wrecking the original paint and decals?
12-14-23, 06:15 AM
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Funny how if you want a rattle can paint job to stick, it won't, and if you want to remove it, it's a pain. If memory serves, they had a fairly thin paint job with minimal clar coat, it's gonna be a lot of work to get that yellow off without impacting the original paint, I'm thinking if the paint job was good when it was repainted, it was either done for commuting camo, or it was stolen, if I was going to undertake something like that (I wouldn't) I would strip it and powder coat it.
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12-15-23, 10:53 AM
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Thanks for the feedback people, I have no idea why someone would spray paint a bike without first disassembling and prepping, but there it is. Under all the crap paint is a nice bike, however.
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