Hollowdweller
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Hmmm very good idea!!! I’ll mask off around the flat surface, get some sand paper and rough it up, paint it white, apply decals, shoot red paint, then remove decals…didn’t think about that. Never seen it done that way in the 5 billion vids I watched. Kinda worried about paint trying to peel off with decals buuuut seems better than the way I did it in the long run.Can't give you an answer on why your decals peeled but I just use the decals as masking. I.E. paint the face of the caliper whatever color I want the logo to be, apply decal, paint main color, remove decal, clear coat.
The decals tend to melt if you actually use the brakes hard.
Definitely peel the decals while the red is still tacky.Hmmm very good idea!!! I’ll mask off around the flat surface, get some sand paper and rough it up, paint it white, apply decals, shoot red paint, then remove decals…didn’t think about that. Never seen it done that way in the 5 billion vids I watched. Kinda worried about paint trying to peel off with decals buuuut seems better than the way I did it in the long run.
yeah the S550 calipers I did turned out just fine. No problem with decals at all. Decals came from different sellers. Waiting on 1st S500 decal guy to respond to eBay message.that's odd. bad batch of stickers or wrong material I'd guess. I put brembo stickers on my calipers almost 4 years ago and they're still there.
Can't give you an answer on why your decals peeled but I just use the decals as masking. I.E. paint the face of the caliper whatever color I want the logo to be, apply decal, paint main color, remove decal, clear coat.
The decals tend to melt if you actually use the brakes hard.
Id like to get your/everyone’s opinion on what to do from here. I’m going to try and do what you suggested and use the decals as a stencil. I taped off the area to paint white (shouldn’t have used duct tape but it’s all I could get to stick) and painted. Peeled the tape off and the edges are really rough. Plan to sand edges, re-tape further bad with masking tape hopefully, apply decals and shoot red if it gets warm enough today!! Totally wrong approach, other ideas…?Can't give you an answer on why your decals peeled but I just use the decals as masking. I.E. paint the face of the caliper whatever color I want the logo to be, apply decal, paint main color, remove decal, clear coat.
The decals tend to melt if you actually use the brakes hard.
Just so I don’t have to disassemble them again really. Not hard I guess, could do it that way. Still have the plugs I used for the holes. The calipers have been clear coated already, didn’t really want to spray over that with red. Was just gonna mask, spray red, unmask, then clear coat again. Don’t really care if the clear gets on the hardware except the rubber. Hmmmm may just disassemble. Couldn’t do anything today, winds blowing to hardWhy mask the edges for the logo color at all? Just make sure the area the logo will be in is fully covered with white. Any overspray outside that area will get covered with red anyway.
If you want to keep the red from seeping in under the decals spray them with clear after you put them on to seal the edges.Just so I don’t have to disassemble them again really. Not hard I guess, could do it that way. Still have the plugs I used for the holes. The calipers have been clear coated already, didn’t really want to spray over that with red. Was just gonna mask, spray red, unmask, then clear coat again. Don’t really care if the clear gets on the hardware except the rubber. Hmmmm may just disassemble. Couldn’t do anything today, winds blowing to hard