[Boatanchors] Navy Gray

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Vaught, KT4AE" <kt4ae at bellsouth.net>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 6:36 AM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Navy Gray


> 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

     My OS-8E/U is a light gray that has no greenish cast. I 
have a couple of other Navy instruments of about the same 
vintage in the same color.
     Sherwin-Williams paint stores and many auto supply 
stores can do color matching using an optical device which 
measures the color and sets up a custom mix. Paint can be 
supplied in cans or spray cans as desired.
     The OS-8 is a neat little scope.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com