Paint touch up
Hi,
I stripped down my bike yesterday and noticed a few scratches/scrapes from cables and bottles, as well as a few around the rear dropouts. As a few of them were actually down to the aluminium can any one recommend a suitable way of touching up these marks? I'm not expecting it to be perfect and I will probably cover the area with that transparent tape stuff to avoid it happening again but I really don't know where to start with the initial repair. Any ideas? Is it possible to get paint to match exactly?
Thanks
Rich
I stripped down my bike yesterday and noticed a few scratches/scrapes from cables and bottles, as well as a few around the rear dropouts. As a few of them were actually down to the aluminium can any one recommend a suitable way of touching up these marks? I'm not expecting it to be perfect and I will probably cover the area with that transparent tape stuff to avoid it happening again but I really don't know where to start with the initial repair. Any ideas? Is it possible to get paint to match exactly?
Thanks
Rich
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Very difficult if you do not know the paint codes. Even white has a variables.
Car touch up pens are handy but getting the colour match is hard work, if possible at all.Yellow is the new Black.0 -
Pop down the local trade car paint shop (the place where bodyshops go to buy their paint) - they'll match the existing paint perfectly and sell you a small bottle of the paint for abut 50p/£1.0
