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Lug taping/painting techniques?

Old 08-16-07, 06:56 PM
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Lug taping/painting techniques?

I am considering painting a lugged frame, and was wondering what the differant techniques you have all used when polishing fancy lug work.

I was considering a general taping over a polished lug, then using a dremel with a buffer pad to clean the edges and remove excess paint on the surface.

I mention this, because taping around the tiny curves on some of the fancy lugs is extremely difficult, and I wondered how some of you cleaned them up to get that nice edge without messing up the paint.
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I think your technique will work. Use some lacquer thinner in a rag to wipe off the paint before it gets super hard - easier than buffing the paint off.

Not sure this will help but check the following link for some info on how Joe Bell paints frames.
https://www.campyonly.com/joebell/painting_steps.html
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Yeah, he does the same as what one would expect. And that is to tape over the lug, and carefully cut around the edges. I considered trying something similar, but using a mini-biffing wheel to remove paint on the edges that are very difficult to cut around. Not sure how well it would work though. I'm specifically referring to the difficulty of taping lugs like these. Very fine work, that would take very long to tape and cut. I'm just curious if there is a simpler way of doing it that looks the same.

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