[Collins] Fw: Paint - Addendum

[David Knepper]

In the March, 1991, issue of Electric Radio, Bill Wheeler, K0DEW,  =
described how he painted his #71 KW-1.

I quote:  "The painter needed to hold the fun off the work more than =
normal and to use Xylene reducer as a thinning agent.  Xylene is a very, =
very fast drying reducer and if the gun was kept off the work, the =
results would be the sand paper finish the old radios had.  This, I am =
told, is not a true wrinkle finish.  Some of the Collins equipment did =
have wrinkle paint, but it was usually shot on using the fast dry =
reducer, especially the amateur equipment.  The paint is almost dry by =
the time it hits the surface and tends to give the sand paper effect =
needed."

OK, then, does that it mean that you can mix the Saint James Gray paint =
with Xylene reducer to produce that sand-like finish?  Anyone try this?

Thanks for your input.


Dave, W3ST
Secretary to the Collins Radio Association
Publisher of the Collins Journal
www.collinsra.com




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