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Old 07-21-2013, 06:14 PM   #139
PolarBear
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It may not look like much, but I got my calipers painted and rebuilt. I am not happy with the way they turned out, but I know for next time if I ever use this paint again.

I dont have any pictures of the process, but I wound up getting used calipers that were really bad looking from brake dust. I took them completely apart, bead blasted them to clean aluminum, painted them, put new O-rings, dust boots, pins, hardware and rattle clips.

It was so hot yesterday and I was using a two part paint, part A and B, so it has a cure time. Unfortunately because it was so hot the second coat, as the directions say to do, was too tacky and the brush wound up pulling the first coat and made it look bad. I wound up putting some reducer in the paint after I got the second coat on and the abutment brackets came out pretty nice since coat after coat the paint wasn't so tacky.

Here is one, all rebuilt and loaded, ready to go on the spindle when I get the spindle painted.





I didn't take a picture, but I also painted the driveshaft with the paint since I had about half the paint left after the calipers and abutments. normally I wouldn't paint stuff like this with a brush, but I figured what the heck. You can see all the brush strokes on the driveshaft, but I kind of like how it came out.
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