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Painting Tins. No really...
- Thread starter Jim
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Surely the stripes come pre-mixed in the can?
In Scotland, there's speciality paint mixers who do tartan paint.
Mikey
got muscles in his head that ain't never been used
I'm not real sure
But stop calling me Shirley !!
This is turning to be more fun than an oil thread
Tartan paint will repel sheep, right?
The Scottish kilt do anything
RS1200, just a little bit special that.
1972_XS650
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Jim,
“Then you can introduce yourself on my painting thread and maybe throw in some pics of your work.”
My name is Steve and I’ve been painting for over 35 years (some pictures a few posts ago above) and Jim let me know he’s done painting and asked if I would take over for forum members and I said “Yes, with his blessing”. He has done some amazing work. I would be honored to continue the quality he has shown.
So if anyone wants work done please let me know.
“Then you can introduce yourself on my painting thread and maybe throw in some pics of your work.”
My name is Steve and I’ve been painting for over 35 years (some pictures a few posts ago above) and Jim let me know he’s done painting and asked if I would take over for forum members and I said “Yes, with his blessing”. He has done some amazing work. I would be honored to continue the quality he has shown.
So if anyone wants work done please let me know.
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After repainting this tank four times, Jim wasn't taking any chances when it came to packing it for shipment. Huge box. Inside, there must have been a couple hundred dollars worth of bubble wrap if you were to buy it retail (I assume and hope it was all acquired for free). Must have taken a couple hours to pack.
As for the tank, it is unspeakably gorgeous. Pics don't do it justice. I wish you could all see it in person.
More to come...
My wife works at Build-A-Bear. Free bubble wrap by the ton.
So, I have shipped a few tanks to/from painters, and I would say that most of the time they are fine. I did get screwed by UPS (who's actually my favorite shipper) once, in that, they must've hammered the box so hard that the tank shifted internally and crunched the rear seam (Kawasaki tank). In this case, it was double boxed and hard to imagine how it was damaged.
My point in bringing this up is that Popular Mechanics some years ago put instrumentation in cartons and shipped identical packages thru FedEx, UPS and USPS.
In reading the output, I had two takeaways: FedEx and UPS frequently subjected their packages to at least 5G acceleration; USPS was a little gentler. USPS is my least favorite carrier due to their spotty tracking, etc.
So, just be aware that this is the treatment you'll get. Oh, and one other takeaway was that "Fragile" markings did nothing to deter rough handling, and there was some evidence that it even encouraged rougher treatment!
My point in bringing this up is that Popular Mechanics some years ago put instrumentation in cartons and shipped identical packages thru FedEx, UPS and USPS.
In reading the output, I had two takeaways: FedEx and UPS frequently subjected their packages to at least 5G acceleration; USPS was a little gentler. USPS is my least favorite carrier due to their spotty tracking, etc.
So, just be aware that this is the treatment you'll get. Oh, and one other takeaway was that "Fragile" markings did nothing to deter rough handling, and there was some evidence that it even encouraged rougher treatment!
I have had quite a few paint sets done by a painter in Portland. I will ship the stuff to him but no way will I trust having it shipped back to me so me and my better half get to have a weekend get away when the paint is ready to pick up. That being said we have purchased many Z1900 tank sets that come from Japan and through the distributors and not one have been damaged. They have the packing down to an art with those paint sets. I am getting fed up with Fed Ex lately. I have sold two bikes to a guy in Miami Fl and have sent both titles by Fed Ex by his request and both titles have been lost. The first was found a week later at another location but the second has not been found. Customer service is non existent. Tracking says it it was delivered. So I open a claim and state the package is lost. They close the claim the next day stating the tracking showed delivered. Driver also states it was delivered and there is nothing he can do. They haven't shown me an actual signature in fact it's hard to even talk to a real person.
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Yeah, I have seen some similar, unexpected dodginess from FedEx. Motorcycle part shipped from MI to me, FedEx says it's delivered but of course it's not.
Tip off was that, instead of the photo they take of the package on your doorstep, the delivery photo was a photo of the front of my house taken from the street. As stated above "So I open a claim and state the package is lost. They close the claim the next day stating the tracking showed delivered." Then the shipper asked them to investigate and they paid the claim and I received a credit, as I had already sourced the part elsewhere. Two weeks later the part mysteriously shows up...huh?! So I contacted the shipper and asked them what they wanted me to do with the part since I had been credited. The said they would email me a return label. Long story short, they never did. I figured since they were made whole by FedEx, they didn't want to open that can of worms. Dodginess all around!
Tip off was that, instead of the photo they take of the package on your doorstep, the delivery photo was a photo of the front of my house taken from the street. As stated above "So I open a claim and state the package is lost. They close the claim the next day stating the tracking showed delivered." Then the shipper asked them to investigate and they paid the claim and I received a credit, as I had already sourced the part elsewhere. Two weeks later the part mysteriously shows up...huh?! So I contacted the shipper and asked them what they wanted me to do with the part since I had been credited. The said they would email me a return label. Long story short, they never did. I figured since they were made whole by FedEx, they didn't want to open that can of worms. Dodginess all around!
My technique for shipping a tank is to put an old T shirt over the tank, then wrap it in old towels, secure all that with stretch wrap all the way around. That goes in a box, which is then placed inside a larger box with double wall cardboard panels all the way around and extra padding all the way around between the boxes. It’s heavy and expensive to ship, but you could drop it off a bridge and it would survive! 
I would tend to agree, except that my Kaw tank was well wrapped and padded in an interior box, and augmented by a second, larger exterior box with a solid layer of packing peanuts in between, and it still got hammered hard enough to damage the finish on the rear seam. And with no obvious external damage.
So again, I would tend to agree, but there is probably always going to be a case where the crappy, careless handling the packages sometimes receive is going to defeat your best efforts.
So again, I would tend to agree, but there is probably always going to be a case where the crappy, careless handling the packages sometimes receive is going to defeat your best efforts.
I bought a radio a few years ago.I would tend to agree, except that my Kaw tank was well wrapped and padded in an interior box, and augmented by a second, larger exterior box with a solid layer of packing peanuts in between, and it still got hammered hard enough to damage the finish on the rear seam. And with no obvious external damage.
So again, I would tend to agree, but there is probably always going to be a case where the crappy, careless handling the packages sometimes receive is going to defeat your best efforts.
The seller had double-boxed it, and polystyrene encased it, but some utter arsehole in the Post Office of either country had rammed it with a fork truck.
The tine of the fork had fucked the radio good and proper.
Nothing you can do will combat stupidity.
We don’t seem to be making people like we used to. Best not to allow people to touch packages. Then there’s non standard packaging. If FedEx packs your stuff in their packaging the sorting machines won’t screw it up.
I recently bought some generator brushes all the way from Wisconsin. USPS got the very small package to Mississippi in just under six weeks. Not that USPS can’t screw up larger packages. I think in this case, the very small envelope increased the USPS fail opportunity.
The volume of packages these operations handle is mind boggling. There will always be failures.
