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Re: spray paint match for repainting a "greenie"
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:37 pm
by oldiron
JJ,
Wow, Thanks for the wealth of information with the colors!
I use the hammered gray on my 10s when redoing them. I've been actively searching for a greenie. If I land one at the right price, You've helped with eliminating the color matching........
The soda blaster is near the top of my list now.
Mike
Re: spray paint match for repainting a "greenie"
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 8:15 am
by cooch366
jjbuzard wrote:
School colors would be easier!
Lol! Not mine, somehow I don't think black and orange would work for me. I really like the combinations others here have used and would stick with those.
Re: spray paint match for repainting a "greenie"
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:35 pm
by JPG
cooch366 wrote:jjbuzard wrote:
School colors would be easier!
Lol! Not mine, somehow I don't think black and orange would work for me. I really like the combinations others here have used and would stick with those.
Would we call that an oriole?
Re: spray paint match for repainting a "greenie"
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:38 pm
by BuckeyeDennis
dusty wrote:Thanks for the information about soda blasting you have provided in this thread and others.
I just blew my budget for other items so the blaster will have wait BUT I am going to get one. I just may strip down my Shorty and redo it (in school colors, maybe).
Dusty, being manufactured in Ohio, modern Shopsmiths
leave the factory painted in the proper school colors!
Re: spray paint match for repainting a "greenie"
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:47 pm
by JPG
BuckeyeDennis wrote:dusty wrote:Thanks for the information about soda blasting you have provided in this thread and others.
I just blew my budget for other items so the blaster will have wait BUT I am going to get one. I just may strip down my Shorty and redo it (in school colors, maybe).
Dusty, being manufactured in Ohio, modern Shopsmiths
leave the factory painted in the proper school colors!
Teal?????
Re: spray paint match for repainting a "greenie"
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 12:26 pm
by jjbuzard
Through ignorance on my part, I broke the Way Tubes Tie Bar in trying to install it, so I bought another, it arrived yesterday, what a shock! It is from another Greenie of unknown origin and its color of Dark Green Hammered IS MUCH darker than my 1957 YUBA built Greenie, I am now of the opinion that depending on the year and where manufactured, the colors varied greatly, darker here and then, lighter here and later. No real constancy.
See for your self, again my mix was confirmed by comparing the Caster support, where is was covered from day one, under the leg where it mated, so there was no fading.
My color match is the lighter one.
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I epoxied the tie bar back together to hold it while finishing assembly.
Re: spray paint match for repainting a "greenie"
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 1:05 pm
by dusty
I have had very little exposure to any Greenie (except in pictures) but that does not look like any Shopsmith green that I have seen. But then there is yours. On my computer, your tie bar appears to be more of a gray than a green.
Re: spray paint match for repainting a "greenie"
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 1:23 pm
by ERLover
dusty wrote:I have had very little exposure to any Greenie (except in pictures) but that does not look like any Shopsmith green that I have seen. But then there is yours. On my computer, your tie bar appears to be more of a gray than a green.
Same thing on mine Dusty, grayer.
Re: spray paint match for repainting a "greenie"
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 2:44 pm
by JPG
Top darker than any of my greenie stuff.
Bottom appears 'mint green' - i.e. a light silverish green.
My greenie stuff tends to be more 'yellowish' to a very small degree.
Hey we be talking about 50+ year old parts.
Re: spray paint match for repainting a "greenie"
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 3:31 pm
by jjbuzard
dusty wrote:I have had very little exposure to any Greenie (except in pictures) but that does not look like any Shopsmith green that I have seen. But then there is yours. On my computer, your tie bar appears to be more of a gray than a green.
When I soda blasted this new tie bar, there was only one layer of paint and it hadn't been sand blasted, because it looks like a new casting after this soda blast.