I'm back, in case anyone here noticed my absence. I went over my limit on my broadband connection and they capped me for the last 3 weeks to 28.8 modem speed. Grrrr I didn't even bother trying coming here, I was getting like 1.5k a sec

Anyway back to what I was saying. I painted my frame with POR15 a couple of months back but due to the rather shonky job I did of it, I've been sitting staring at it wondering how to fix it. It looked alright from a distance but not so good up close. And the parts that were covered by the fairing looked really bad, not that they could be seen but I know its there, if you get what I mean.
So anyway I hooked up with a friend of a friend who said he could spray it with a pen gun in whatever colour I like and then put a matt or gloss clear over it. All I had to do is strip as much as I could off it, rearsets, exhaust, radiator etc and sand the chassis black off, well smooth anyway.
What I ended up doing though is getting really bored with the progress of sanding so I took to it with and angle grinder with a stainless brush in it. Por15 might be pretty tuff paint but it didn't have a chance against the brush and neither did the anodizing underneath.
Now I'm left with a clean bare aluminium finish and don't know what to do. I like the sprayed 2pack metalic black with a matt clear idea but then again I'd forgotten how good polished alloy looks. I sanded one area really quickly with 400grit paper and gave it a quick polish with some white tripoli and damned if it doesnt look awesome. It would look even better if I rubbed it back in stages up to 1200 or 1500 paper.
So now I'm not sure what to do. Maybe polish the frame and swingarm then mask it up and spray the areas around the headstock and inside the swingarm around the exhaust and maybe all the recessed holes where bolts go etc...

Any suggestions, like anyone know if you can mask up aluminium and spray or will it chip off where the paint meets polished alloy. Anyone sprayed a 2pak clearcoat over polished alloy and does it end up weathering badly and looking crap ...

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