Recent content by DollaBill

With respect to powdercoating...powder is polyester. The powder doesn't always react well to over-coats with high solvent content like lacquer and some urethanes, but it's fine with enamels. One Shot is the most common striping paint, it's enamel and inert, as far as powdercoating is...

Re: Lil' Chap (Suicide brake done!) Ingenuous!

Thanks! There are SO many cool bikes out there...the bikes on this site blow me away. My goal was to build something that looks impossible to ride, do it on the cheap, and see if my ideas would work. I have $50, maybe, in this thing. My personal tastes run to an "original" looking...

Thanks! No...its in California and I am in Texas. I'll post some more when I break it down, and paint it.

Thanks!

Hey...the frame and forks were free, so why not build a Huffy? :) And I just joined RRB, so I don't have any build pics, just the completed bike, but I'll describe the process: 26" bike, which I wanted because the goal was to use those 36" ape hangers, which were...free. The other goal was to...

Howdy. Bill, from El Paso, although that's temporary...my job moves me around. Schwinn fan, but lately, I have a love of Huffys. That has more to do with the fact that a Huffy came my way, and I just HAD to improve it. :)