My other bike- '81 XS400

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Okay, doubleg, here are a few photos I took of the touch up I did on my RD.
I cropped an old picture I had so I could show what it looked like before I did the touch up (1st picture). The frame actually looked quite a bit worse than the photo shows, especially the other side -- sorry I don't have any 'before' pictures of the other side. One thing you've probably noticed on these old steel-framed bikes is that any frame joints and added frame bosses usually have some kind of rust around the welds. I treated all those areas too before the touch up as described in my original post. Anyways, here are the photos. Again, the first one is the only 'before' picture I have, the rest are other areas I also touched up, including parts of the swing arm (last photo).

Not a great picture, but you can see where there was some surface rust by the header pipes from the crash bars that were mounted on the frame.
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Same part of the frame, after:
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Other side. This side had surface corrosion all over the down tube. The little black lines are just a reflection:
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This foot rest bracket was almost all surface rust:
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This part of the swing arm had some corrosion in places, especially near any welds:
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Again, all this was done with only a foam brush. You can see how smoothly the POR15 Top Coat lays down on the metal. It's also much tougher and resistant to chipping than regular paint. The Marine Clean and Metal Prep as mentioned in my first post are done beforehand to help prep the surface for paint, and will also prevent any further rust in the areas you treat with them as the Metal Prep has some chemical qualities that arrest rust and bond the paint to the treated corrosion. Hope you have the same good results I did if you decide to try this!