[Boatanchors] Navy Gray spray paint can for TV-7 tube tester

[Nick England]

> Navy electronics changed grayshades 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.

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:26 AM "Yongsurk Lee, HL1FB" <yonglee at yonsei.ac.kr>
wrote:

> Does someone know where I can get Navy Gray spray cans?
>
> I want to paint tube testers like TV-7, TV-2 etc. I believe the Navy Gray
> color was(or is) the standard
>
> color for some US miltary equipments.
>
> I am restoring many TV-7 tube testers here in Korea,
>
> Years ago I had a California paint store to mix the color and put it into
> spray cans.
>
> That worked very well. i am running out of the cans.
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Nick England K4NYW
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