[GreenKeys] Teletype gray/green paint needed

[Jim Haynes]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Jonathan B. O'Rear wrote:

> Hello all. Would anybody happened to know where I can get some of
> the teletype gray/green paint?  Need to do some painting. 
>
Originally Teletype used wrinkle paint, as was popular in the 1940s
and 50s.  Then they and most of the industry switched to textured
vinyl, which is more rugged.

These days just about any paint store can match to a sample pretty
well.  Also a pretty close match to the Teletype color is Krylon
3522 Italian Olive, but of course that is not a wrinkle paint.  I
don't know what you have to do to get and apply textured vinyl.

About 40 years ago I bought a bucket of (oil) paint about the right
color at a Sherwin-Williams store.  It was meant to be sprayed and
was meant to be smooth.  I bought the cheapest spray paint outfit
that Sears had at the time, which used a diaphram compressor and no
tank.  Because of the pulsating air supply the paint came out somewhat
in globs and made a beautiful textured finish that was just what I
wanted.

You could try putting paint on with a foam roller, and maybe rolling
over it again as it is drying in hopes of getting a texture.

Something I learned is that if you apply Rust-Oleum primer and then
Krylon over it you will get a wrinkle finish - but you won't like
it.  So use Krylon primer with Krylon paint, and Rust-Oleum primer
with Rust-Oleum paint.