Preparing Your Scooter For Painting
After purchasing the custom painting manual guide, tools, paints and equipment, the next job is to dismantle the scooter. Begins to dismantle your scooter with the utmost precision. While breaking the bike must be very careful with wires attached to the bike.

Disassemble the motor is not very difficult, if done under the framework customized guided machines. Remove only the parts of the scooter, who wants to return to painting, like most people who remove any part of the scooter and find it difficult to collect later.

You should remember, while dismantling your scooter, you have to assemble. Using the basic toolkit, you can easily dismantle or assemble your scooter. You should gather all the pieces of large or small your scooter very carefully at the time of dismantling your scooter.

Sanding.

Blasting is done to remove the old paint from the parties dismantled scooter and to give smooth and silky surface to paint. El proceso se realiza de lijado by el uso de papeles de la arena. In general, two types of sand paper used in the polishing process, scooter, the first is the rough sandpaper and the second is fine sandpaper. Rough sandpaper is used to remove old paint from the motorcycle and fine sandpaper is used to smooth surface and the new paint.

If the old paint is remain on a scooter so could cause problems with the new paint. Therefore, sanding is very important before starting to paint your scooter. Never try to avoid sanding, as it is very important for long-lasting shine and grace of new paint.

Honing your scooter.

Blasting a bike does not need any specialized knowledge or skills. You must be careful in choosing the correct thickness of the abrasive paper (sandpaper coarse and fine sandpaper).

Documents with the sand grains 600-1000 can be used, depending on the roughness of your scooter. Roles 600 abrasives used for the rough surface ie to remove the old paint. 1000 documents submitted by the fine-grained sand are used to complete the bike.

Grinding, although not a specialized work, but we must be experts in judging the smoothness of the surface on which to paint. When you go to scooter sanding, you should be well prepared, as the people performing the work are regularly exposed to dust (powder of old paint). The ability to get the dust in the eyes and throat are very common.

Therefore, wear safety equipment. Ingestion of these powders can sometimes cause lung cancer.

For the finish of your scooter, you should use 200 grit sandpaper. The smooth, shiny surface of the bike is the reward of proper sanding. Use a paper of 1200 grit paper wet and dry, if you want to paint a metallic color on your scooter.

Stripper chemical polishing.

If it is difficult to remove the old paint of your scooter with sandpaper, then you can also use chemical stripper. Apply the stripper very carefully all the scooter with a brush.

Chemical stripper can affect your skin badly. Therefore, it is necessary to wear safety equipment while applying chemical stripper on her scooter.

How to apply chemical stripper.

It should cover all parts of your scooter, you want to paint, with clear plastic sheet (available at any hardware store), so the vapors will be trapped inside and work faster on the scooter. Having driven the scooter parts with the plastic sheet, than wait for 2 to 3 hours and remove the plastic sheet.

Now you can begin to scrape the old paint from the bike with a spatula or paint scraper. After applying stripping chemical on the scooter parts and keep the water out of these parts. If needed, use the stripping chemical again.

Never use a chemical stripper to remove old paint from the scooter, because it can affect the body (metal) of your scooter. Therefore, sanding with sandpaper is best and easier to remove old paint from scooter.

Wash the parts before starting to paint.

After the sanding process, wash each part. Washing is necessary and important to remove the sanding dust that is left after the process of sandblasting.

There are some people who jump from sanding directly onto the base coat and might suffer later, as if you start with the basic level, without washing, then after completing the basic level in the first place, there are small particles in it. Therefore, wash all parts before painting.

For the purposes of washing, you can use any common soap or dishwashing detergents which are commonly available on the market. You can also use a scrub or a stiff brush with these soap or detergent. A spot or even a stiff brush to remove the old paint left during the process of sandblasting.

You can also use the cleaner to wash scooter, but never resorting to strong and react chemically cleaned, which can damage the body (metal) of your scooter to start the process of oxidation. These types of chemical cleaners contain a chemical irritant Monobutyl is known as ethylene glycol.