Touch Up Paint

[Josh]

Does anyone know any good companies that sell touch up paint that would be suitable for the dawes galaxy 2005?

[bikepacker]

I get mine from a company in Worcester that does car spray paints. They can mix an exact match but I get the closest stock colour.

I would have thought most towns have such companies.

[Tim]

i often use hammerite in the closest shade available

[sportyman531]

I got two small tins of Revell enamel an oil based paint used by modellers one blue and one white and mixed a few drops of each to the right shade

[Josh]

Thanks, is it a big deal to touch up a bike? I've never tried touching up a bike, would it be better if i got my local bike shop to do it?

[sportyman531]

It's not a big deal, I took a chunk of enamel off a frame by accidentally dropping an allen key on the chain stay so I put some car primer on it, that was 3 years ago and it's only this summer that i put some revell enamel on it and no rust formed in the meantime. That's the important part, does your touch up protect the metal underneath, the paint match is really cosmetic. Have a go yourself for free!

[Tim]

er, touching up is an arrestable offence, i'm sure. better do it at a licensed bike shop.