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Tried my hand at some carbon dipping on the standard mirrors, what do u [/URL]

Certainly looks different. Looks like you got a good finish too. How do you do it? Is it something you can do at home or do you need special equipment to do it?

Nice job fella, looks cool.

Leemathew wrote:Tried my hand at some carbon dipping on the standard mirrors, what do u [/URL]

Nice job mate

U can do it at home but takes a lot of time , u can get the kits for around £70 but that does 5 metres of anything u want. Have a look at the link

BigSpanishMarty when he was in the thrall of carbon effect vinyl ran into a small technical problem

Wicky wrote:BigSpanishMarty when he was in the thrall of carbon effect vinyl ran into a small technical problem

Whatever happened to him??? You can understand why he would obscure mirrors after you meet him!

Seems to me the dipping is the easy part. It's only ever going to look as good as the paint basecoat and the finish you get on the lacquer. So the better prep the better the finish and then how good a sprayer you are for the basecoat and then getting a good finish with the lacquer.

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That's what i thought until I tried it, water has to be 30 degrees, film has to be placed down in the water trying not to get any bubbles under it, leave it there for 1 minute and then spray the activator on the film . Once the film starts to spread dip the item at a 40 degree angle nice a slow to quick u miss bits and to slow it looks terrible. Nice feeling when u get it right though

I think it looks fab mate, how much to do mine?

It looks good to me The first time I saw dipping like this was on American Chopper on TV.

Chris.

Looks good but not for me

Need a lot more practice before I will be willing to try someone else's stuff, don't mine mucking it up as it's mine lol

Just done some heal plates on a friends gsxr
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I like the idea of it, but I'm waiting for a more lifelike carbon fibre finish.
I have several parts I'd like to get done. good work tho buddy, imho they look better than the standard mirrors.....
I'm thinking of using these guys, they've recently moved further away from me tho....
http://www.pitstopdesigns.co.uk/index.htm
heres some of their carbon designs....