[GreenKeys] Green Wrinkle Paint?

Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:06:15 EST

Steve,

There is a company in Chicago (or a northern suburb) that would make it for 
you, but their minimum order on custom color wrinkle finish paint is 600 16 oz. 
spray cans (+/- 10%).  Another mil radio collector and I are in the final 
stages of having an order of WW-II Signal Corps Green Wrinkle done.  We've 
received and tested samples and will probably be placing the order in the next week 
or two.  Since neither of us needs 300 cans right now and the stuff has a 
rated shelf life of only two years, we will shortly (as soon as we know that the 
deal has not fallen through!) be offering it to other green radio 
collector/restorers, keeping back what we think we might use in a couple of years.

I've seen WU green wrinkle but don't have a clear mental picture of how close 
it was to the narrow range of colors used by the Signal Corps.  If it's close 
or close enough, then great.  If not, then we will be more than happy to pass 
on to anyone from the Greenkeys list who can broker a deal for a different 
color the necessary contact info, etc.  To give a little more info, they will 
also make and sell it in gallons (and probably quarts) but the formulation for 
use in disposable spray cans is different from that needed for use in spray 
guns.  So you can't mix and match.  Secondly, it appears that each 16 ounce spray 
can will contain actually 12 ounces of paint.  So a little calculation yields 
about 10.66 spray cans to the gallon.  Or about 56 gallons minimum order.  
They may have told my cohort in crime the actual figure but as we started off 
interested only in spray cans, if they did I forgot it.  But that should give 
some idea of the bulk minimum order volume.

If WU green isn't close enough and there isn't enough interest to pay for an 
order, then your best bet is to find someone who will do flat paint in the 
correct color (I can supply a suggestion there as well), paint the parts in any 
wrinkle color, and then after the wrinkle has thoroughly cured (usually two 
weeks minimum) overspray in the correct color.  I've done this for years for the 
Signal Corps stuff and the results look pretty good, except that most of the 
black and gray wrinkle available today tend to produce a coarser wrinkle, and 
of course the color coat fills it in to some extent.

In a message dated 11/19/2003 8:15:50 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes: 
> Does anyone know of a method for achieving a
> wrinkle-paint finish to look like the OEM finish on
> our machines?  I can find spray-cans of a black
> wrinkle paint, but I want to re-finish some WU
> equipment I have; the machines are of course finished
> in the traditional WU green color.  Any help or hints
> would be appreciated.  Thx!

73
Robert Downs - Houston
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