[Hallicrafters] Goodbye, Old Paint, I'm-a leavin' Cheyenne...

[kirklandb at sympatico.ca]

My 75A4 is more brown than grey/black.
Ok, so it was built in Canada.

bk
> 
> From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
> Date: 2006/04/17 Mon AM 11:35:02 EST
> To: "George KB2Z" <Thermionic_Emission at earthlink.net>
> CC: Hallicrafters List <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Goodbye, Old Paint, I'm-a leavin' Cheyenne...
> 
> On 4/16/06, George KB2Z <Thermionic_Emission at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > It' no longer, Politically Correct to use white as a color.
> 
> It's all Crayola's fault for removing the 'flesh' colored crayon! They
> started it!  (o:
> 
> Just to add assurance to the issue of matching paint, even the
> venerable old Collins A-Line suffered from some variations. You can
> actually see this in some of their old ads, the 75A-1 comes to mind.
> Cabinet looks darker than the front panel. And the new St James Gray
> that Howard Mills' painter uses looks black in comparison. Does come
> very close to the shade of the big transmitters like the KW-1 or 30K,
> but is much darker than the 32Vs or 75A receivers. Howard matched the
> paint by removing the escutcheon and using the paint beneath it that
> hadn't been exposed to decades of UV light, polluted air, or whatever
> else makes paint change color.
> 
> So I think getting 'really close' is as good as being 'exact', since
> they appear to be one and the same depending on the batch of paint,
> who shot the work, the day of the week, etc.
> 
> de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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