Originally Posted by
Crossthreaded88
I personally prefer Rustoleum Brand spray paint except for flat black jobs when I use the Home Depot store brand for 99 cents a can.
I'll do Rustoleum sometimes too, but the fast dry on the Krylon is a big benefit with these.
So it looks like a fair amount of prep work, masking, repaints, and sanding. 6 hours minimum heh? What can expect to see for a return on your efforts?
I'd guess 8-10 hours on that one, counting relacing the wheels. At the moment, we're rearranging the back space, and haven't set the sandblast booth back up. Really cuts the prep time down. As for overall return, we make more on the maintenance, though of course the single speed coaster brake ones rarely need more than flats fixed until they start rusting up again. (Though I think a flat fix ends up being our highest labor-charge-per-minute-spent repair.) This is more of a project to get stuff that would have been headed to the scrap yard back on the road; some just get fixed up, some rustier ones just get wire brushed and sprayed with whatever's at hand while they're already stripped down anyway, and some with character get actual thought put into them. If the price covers materials and some of my time, it's worth it to get somebody else on a bike. (And thus, of course, provide one more bike we'll be fixing from time to time.)