[Boatanchors] Navy Gray

[Nick England]

OK, according to MIL-E-16400 governing Navy electronics equipment:

The paint spec for Navy electronics equipment for Interior Use is MIL-E-15090
http://www.wbdg.org/ccb/FEDMIL/dtl15090d.pdf
The paint is called Navy Formula No. 111
The color must match color number 26307 of FED-STD-595

Navy electronics for Exterior Use gets a different kind of paint per TT-E-490
http://www.everyspec.com/FED_SPECS/T/TT-E-490E_10736/
and is darker, matching color number 26270

There's a color chart on this page, but who knows what shade your
monitor is displaying.
http://www.chassis-plans.com/paint_fed-std-595.html

Now You Know

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Navy electronics changed gray shades around 1950.
> The original OS-8/U
> http://www.navy-radio.com/test/os8b-u-94.jpg
> is much darker than the later OS-8C/U
> http://www.navy-radio.com/test/os8c-u-01.JPG
>
> I like Rust-Oleum Light Machine Gray for the lighter 50's-60's Navy radio gear
> In this photo,
> http://www.navy-radio.com/misc/shack/shack-pan27.JPG
>  the bottom TTY unit was painted with Light Machine Gray - the other
> TTY units are original Navy colors.
>
> Rust-Oleum Smoke Gray works well for the late 40's darker gray color.
> In this photo
> http://www.navy-radio.com/misc/shack/shack-122.JPG
> I painted the racks with Smoke Gray and the equipment is original
> (some of it yet-to-be-cleaned nicotine brown)
>
> Neither is a perfect match and a lot depends on the lighting, but
> these seem to be pretty close.
>
> cheers,
> Nick K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
>
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Harry Vaught, KT4AE
> <kt4ae at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Keep your laughs to yourselves.  This isn't a boatanchor but I imagine
>> it's been around one.  I want to paint an OS-8 carrying case.
>>
>> Krylon sells a "Battleship Gray".  Is this color close?
>>
>> Like some of my Hallicrafters, the OS-8 case seems to have a green cast
>> to it when you put a "pure" gray next to it.  Actually, the OS-8 is
>> really close to the Hallicrafters color.
>>
>> It's not worth having the paint matched and buying a quart.
>>
>> Harry, KT4AE
>> Maryville, Tennessee
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