[ARC5] EASY fine black wrinkle!

[Mike Everette via ARC5]

I think it's available in gray, and maybe a beige or tan. Perhaps other colors.  Check the Rust-Oleum web site to be sure.

If you need a color other than black, pick the lightest of the truck bed paints that you can find and then overspray that with a color of your choice.  This will of course make the finish thicker, but it also will tone down the sandpaper-like feel of the truck bed paint alone.

I did that using a product called "Stone Creations" -- an aerosol paint that results in a much deeper wrinkle -- to refinish the panel and cabinet on an RME-45B receiver which originally was blue-gray wrinkle.  After first using a self-etching primer on the surface, I put on a wrinkle base with a very light cream stone color, then oversprayed this with a slate blue (as close as I could come to the original color).  This was followed by a clear overcoat. The "stone" wrinkle was so deep that the extra thickness of the following paints didn't hurt the effect.

The RME came out looking nice; but I believe the truck bed paint gives a considerably more durable finish.  I'd use the bed paint if I had it to do over.

73

Mike
WA4DLF

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On Fri, 9/19/14, MWM via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [ARC5] EASY fine black wrinkle!
 To: Arc5 at mailman.qth.net
 Date: Friday, September 19, 2014, 3:32 PM
 
 
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] EASY fine black wrinkle!
 
   Is it available in colors 
 other than black?
 
 
 
 Yes, its in smooth and matt as well. 
 BLACK CRACKLE !!!!!!
 
 
 there's a clue in the name.
 
 
  
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