Yeah, the word circulating around back then was that it might've been a 2-coat job using House of Kolor Shimrin base coat metallic BC08 "Nova Orange" followed by a clear coat KK14 (formerly UK14) kandy koat "Spanish Gold." Riv will neither confirm or deny any of this; I'm kinda thinking that whoever they used to paint the first batch of Ram's was given the directive to come up with a real eye-catcher to serve as a kind of "loss leader" for the new frame. It worked. Although their paint jobs are good, none have ever been the same as those early Ram frames.
The price on this stuff is mighty precious - $50-$60 for a quart of the base coat and around $40 for just 8oz of the Spanish Gold (which is now only sold as an intensifier implying, I assume, that a final third clear coat would be necessary). 'Course, they reduce this stuff considerably before spraying so small quantities go a long way, but no painter is going to spend that kind of money just for one bike frame - unless maybe you'd by the paint for them. I 'spose another way to approach it would be to find someone who is in the process of putting together a show car hot rod and sweet talk him into these color combo's. Then find a way to get the painter to do the frame at the same time. On Thursday, June 20, 2013 3:50:38 PM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 13:19 -0700, George Schick wrote: > > All replies to this post are good - the temporary field fix, the > > general issues surrounding steel dropouts and the various factors that > > can lead to failure, the way Riv lives up to its reputation for > > supporting their products, etc. But I own a Rambouillet of the same > > vintage as the OP and if something like this ever happened to it I'd > > have to find a way to get it repainted the same brilliant orange color > > as the original, even if I had to pay for the paint job myself. > > Not much of a chance of that. It's not a "brilliant orange color," it's > a multi-stage paint job with transparent paint over a pearl layer. I'm > not sure if anyone knows how to do it, but I do know it's impossible to > touch up. > > > I know this kind of flies in the face of the beausage philosophy, but > > I love that goldish orange they used so much that I'd just have to > > keep it somehow. > > It was nice, I'll give you that. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
