How to keep the Ice Cream Express white ?

Hi all

I normally go with powder coating, but am battling to keep this baby lookiing good.
How does a painted 2k finish hold up ?
Clear coat ?

All suggestions welcome..

Trevor

If you want tough resistance to brush scratching and such, I am not familiar with 2K finishes but I mostly use PPG Deltron and Omni(epoxy paint). Deltron and Imron were the offroad finishes of choice prior to powdercoating. Omni will give an OEM quality on frames and Deltron is for metal and plastic fuel tanks and plastics as it doe not require a flex agent. There are are likely systems that may be more effective and less toxic as that is always a prime concern spraying these coatings.

As a rep for a automotive paint company I use liquid paint on all my bikes. I honestly feel paint holds its own to powder and outperforms it on several fronts (adhesion, resistance to chemicals, appearance).
I would recommend having frame sandblasted then refinishing with either epoxy primer or a true etch (not aerosol) followed by a 2k sealer and then topcoated with either base clear or single stage paint. I highly recommend using a hardener in the basecoat if the manufacturer has a recommendation for it to help resist chipping.
I've also done a frame in single stage polyurethane and its holding up extremely well also

Thanks for the suggestions. Into the garage to start stripping !!

photos..take plenty of photos...for us and you

Send photos please

I’m very frugal sometimes but I want the best paint job for my dollar. I been using rustolium gloss white on my husky milk truck bikes. It seems to hold up well. But like any paint job the preparation is the key to a quality finish. When it’s dirty some simple green and garden hose does bring it back again as when it was painted.

A buddy of mine works in a body shop. He told me they painted a corvette with Enron epoxy paint. After it was done the owner wanted it painted in another color. He told me the Enron was rock hard and impossible to sand.

Bigbill, were you perhaps referring to Dupont's Imron product line? That stuff is nearly bulletproof, but it is expensive and hard to apply. Probably not a very good choice for anyone but a professional body shop.

Yes that’s the paint Imron. The body shop does custom work to the customers requests.