Restoring motorcycle switches - what ink?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 7:20 am
HI
I've been in the print industry for yonks, but am very new to screen print. I am restoring an old 1983 Kawasaki Z1300. The handle bar switches were originally screen printed. As the paint was screwed on them, I glass bead blasted them and had them powder coated using a polyester powder. I got myself a basic hand machine and will be able to make jigs to hold the switches, but none seems to be able to tell me what sort of inks to use. I need white and yellow. The powder coater is going to coat some scrap plates for me to experiment with. I have contacted two ink suppliers in the UK who both seem unsure what I will need and suggest testing inks This is all very well, but as this may be a one off job, I'm not keen to buy loads of different inks to see which sticks ! To me this seems like a pretty standard sort of job that must be done over and over some where in industry.
Any one help?
Many thanks
Ralph
I've been in the print industry for yonks, but am very new to screen print. I am restoring an old 1983 Kawasaki Z1300. The handle bar switches were originally screen printed. As the paint was screwed on them, I glass bead blasted them and had them powder coated using a polyester powder. I got myself a basic hand machine and will be able to make jigs to hold the switches, but none seems to be able to tell me what sort of inks to use. I need white and yellow. The powder coater is going to coat some scrap plates for me to experiment with. I have contacted two ink suppliers in the UK who both seem unsure what I will need and suggest testing inks This is all very well, but as this may be a one off job, I'm not keen to buy loads of different inks to see which sticks ! To me this seems like a pretty standard sort of job that must be done over and over some where in industry.
Any one help?
Many thanks
Ralph