My New Mark V Color

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:53 am

I am working on a rebuild and decided to repaint before I reassembled. I thought I had a good match when looking at the lid on the spray can. Now that I have committed, I realize I don't have a match at all. I like the color (Rustoleum Hammered) but it sure is not a "match".

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The original paint is the Shopsmith Gray (Rough) and I painted over the original to preserve the texture. I don't know how that is going to resist the wear and tear but I will know soon.

Original plans were to create a "shorty" but now I have become undecided after reading a few posts by users who don't sound completely happy with their shorter Mark V. I don't know yet.

chas410 · Post by **chas410** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:05 am

dusty wrote:I am working on a rebuild and decided to repaint before I reassembled. I thought I had a good match when looking at the lid on the spray can. Now that I have committed, I realize I don't have a match at all. I like the color (Rustoleum Hammered) but it sure is not a "match".

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The original paint is the Shopsmith Gray (Rough) and I painted over the original to preserve the texture. I don't know how that is going to resist the wear and tear but I will know soon.

Original plans were to create a "shorty" but now I have become undecided after reading a few posts by users who don't sound completely happy with their shorter Mark V. I don't know yet.

I have had the same issues with paint colors in the restorations I am in. I used the hammered rustoleum paint and it seems to scrape easily and wasn't as close as I thought it would be. I thought the hammered bronze was close also until I used it. I am wondering if metalic gray is not a closer match. Has anyone powder coated their units?

Chas

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:28 am

chas410 wrote:I have had the same issues with paint colors in the restorations I am in. I used the hammered rustoleum paint and it seems to scrape easily and wasn't as close as I thought it would be. I thought the hammered bronze was close also until I used it. I am wondering if metalic gray is not a closer match. Has anyone powder coated their units?

Chas

I have not used the metallic gray hammered (if there such a thing) but I have used the metallic gray on a different project. It was blacker than I had expected. It seems that the color sample on the can lid is just not enough area to be a reliable color representation.

If you have ever painted a room based on the color chart at the store you know that the charts can be misleading.

As I said, I'm pleased with the color just surprised.

billmayo · Post by **billmayo** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:39 am

chas410 wrote:I have had the same issues with paint colors in the restorations I am in. I used the hammered rustoleum paint and it seems to scrape easily and wasn't as close as I thought it would be. I thought the hammered bronze was close also until I used it. I am wondering if metalic gray is not a closer match. Has anyone powder coated their units?

Chas

I had the same issues when Rustoleum introducted their hammered paint. A person on another Forum stated he was using his powder coating oven to bake the Rustoleum Hammered paint at 200 degrees (I use a laser thermometer (HF $19.99 93984) to insure the 200 degrees) for several hours (2-3 hrs is what I used). This seems to harden the paint quite a bit (same day as painted) and did not burn on the few dozen headstocks I have done.

A note of warning: any other brand of paint I tried burned and/or smoked badly. I converted a 30" stove to only use the oven circuit. I would recommend trying a small item with the Rustoleum Hammered paint first. I have not tried it on any other Rustoleum Metallic, regular or satin finish paints.

I really liked the hammered finish as I have done dark bronze, black, copper, gold, grey & silver. In fact, I have all the power coating equipment but stayed with the Hammered paint due to cost, setup time and I liked the Hammered results.

Gene Howe · Post by **Gene Howe** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:22 am

Dusty,
That color is nice. You can sure tell the difference, though.

mrblanche · Post by **mrblanche** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:12 pm

You might be surprised how durable the Rustoleum hammered paints are, once they are fully cured.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:50 pm

mrblanche wrote:You might be surprised how durable the Rustoleum hammered paints are, once they are fully cured.

I have all my painted parts sitting out on top of the fence in the Arizona sun for a slow bake. I hope that that hardens the paint some. Today is the third day after being sprayed.

mickyd · Post by **mickyd** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:47 pm

I think it's going to look real nice assembled dusty. Nice job.

keakap · Post by **keakap** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:54 pm

dusty wrote:...
As I said, I'm pleased with the color just surprised.

I'll cast my vote with the assembled multitude: I like the new color too, better even than the Shopsmith blue.

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