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

[Nick England]

According to MIL-E-16400 governing Navy electronics equipment:

The paint spec for Navy electronics equipment for Interior Use is
MIL-E-15090
http://everyspec.com/MIL-SPECS/MIL-SPECS-MIL-E/MIL-E-15090C_26169/
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 of FED-STD-595

There's a FED-STD-595 color chart on this page, but who knows what shade
your
monitor is displaying
http://www.federalstandardcolor.com/



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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