[ARC5] Advice requested...

[Glen Zook via ARC5]

What I do, when I need a boat anchor paint matched, is take what needs to be matched to a Sherwin-Williams store.  Try to find somewhere where the elements (including sun light, dirt, etc.) has been kept from the surface.  This is often where the paint has been hidden by the chassis, etc.  That will give you a much better idea as to what the actual color was when new.
I use Latex Acrylic enamel because the paint is water based and, after between 48-hours and 72-hours "curing", is a very hard finish.  The paint "dries to the touch" in a very short period of time.  However, it is soft and takes time to actually "cure" so that it is hard.
Of course, you will need some sort of spray rig, etc., to apply the paint unless the particular store is one of the relatively few stores that can actually load spray cans. Glen, K9STH

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      From: Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
 To: ARC5 at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 7:39 PM
 Subject: [ARC5] Advice requested...
   
Although this is a bit off topic, this group is the first one I thought 
of to ask this:

I have a Mackey Marine model 128AY receiver here, which I want to 
restore. After several years of off and on work, I have managed to 
accumlate an entire schematic, and most of the wiring diagram, in 
addition to the operating manual.

(For those interested, it is up on my website, W7EKB.COM in the Glowbugs 
sectoin, under Military.)

Although my receiver is not missing any parts (as far as I can see) the 
chassis and front panel are not in good condition, with some rust on both 
and terribly deteriorated paint on the front panel and cabinet.

And here is my request: the color is a sort of green. It is very 
difficult for me to tell exactly what shade of green, and I am hoping 
someone here can tell me what the shade is so when I refinish the thing, 
I will have a close match to the color of the original receiver.

Anyone?

Also, I find the circuit to be rather unlike any regenerative receiver I 
have so far used: it has a triode (6J5) regenerative stage, followed 
immediately by a 6SJ7 detector stage. In every regenerative receiver I 
have yet seen, the regenerative part IS the detector.

In the RCA model RBA receiver, the detector never is allowed to go into 
oscillation, and the receiver has a separate tuned heterodyne oscillator 
following the regenerative stage, but this circuit appear to be backwards 
from that one.