Charles,
We will be looking into some of these products soon. Carlos has decided to take up the paint and restoration part of my business and is looking for a location to set up the new operation. I will be helping with some of the work; but Carlos is organizing and running the business part of it. He will be learning that which he doesn't already know about painting from me as we go. In addition, this location will be used co-operatively by a number of San Diego framebuilders, including myself, to paint their own bikes.
We'll keep you posted on the Alsa Corp. paints as we conduct experiments and start to get results. I've seen some of the results in the custom car arena, so I know there is a use for the stuff on bikes.
Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA
I have been tempted, for years now, to try restoring a frame using products from Alsa Corporation. I've spoken to CyclArt, Joe Bell, and Brian Baylis, about these products, but no-one of them has taken the plunge yet and tried them.
I have a restoration upcoming that might really benefit from these paints, but I'd love to know if anyone here has any experience with the Alsa MirraChrome system. It looks really good, better than any Alsa chrome paint has looked yet. It can be sprayed from a normal industrial spray machine, requires no special prep. For those projects that could work without real chrome, the system looks awfully tantalizin g.
Also, in perusing the Alsa site recently, I came across a brand new product from them:
http://alsacorp.com/
Alsa paints in a spray-can! Makes me want to run right out and find a cool old frame that's utterly trashed and try restoring it with these paints! It'd be an enormous amount of work...but very satisfying, I imagine.
I don't really have time for it. But, it's tempting. Maybe someone here with more time than I have will try the Alsa Killer cans and report back to us?
Charles "wishing I had the kind of time I had when I built my wood sail-boat from scratch.." Andrews Los Angeles