[Hallicrafters] PM-23 color

[Ed]

After reading Duane's interview with the Hallicrafters employee, I've pretty 
much figured out there are a million shades of Hallicrafters gray. I have 
two PM-23's and they are both so close to the same color that I can't tell 
the difference. I've got a place on one that I need to touch-up and thought 
someone might have had success with an "over the counter brand" without me 
having to buy several before I found the best one. I guess ugly is in the 
eye of the beholder. I love the looks of the SX-28 and although the PM-23's 
are plain, I like their style as well, but then again I like the looks of a 
47 Chrysler Town & Country station wagon too ;-)
73,
Ed-KV5I
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Everette" <radiocompass at yahoo.com>
To: "Ed" <elh54 at sbcglobal.net>; <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] PM-23 color


> If you can find gray wrinkle paint, I'd use whatever
> is available.  "Exact matching" is really pointless
> (yes, that's right).  These paints were not perfectly
> matched in the 30s and 40s.  For large batches in a
> factory, they were more than likely mixed up in a
> 55-gallon drum, using something like a wooden canoe
> paddle to stir with, until they "looked right."
>
> This implies a subjective judgement by the mixer,
> which could vary with lighting conditions, such that
> paint mixed in January would likely be a different
> shade from that mixed in July.  Even the time of day,
> and consequent lighting conditions, might affect the
> shades.
>
> Fretting over paint colors reminds me of the
> ridiculous tempest-in-a-teapot discussions of color
> nuances indulged in by model railroaders.  Trains were
> and are "industrial machines" and painted accordingly.
> I rather suspect that Halli radios were thought of
> the same way at the time of their creation, rather
> than as 'Objets d'Arte."
>
> Paint your PM-23 and SX-28 the same color and live
> happily ever after.  Even if it is less than "pure,"
> who's to know?  What's the "standard"?  I doubt very
> seriously that one exists.
>
> I personally think the gray color of the PM-23 and
> SX-28 case is not merely ugly, but "YOOgly."  However,
> I will probably repaint them some shade of gray.
> After all.... what would the neighbors think?
>
> If you can't find gray wrinkle, try this:
>
> I have successfully used black wrinkle paint,
> available at Car Quest auto stores, and oversprayed it
> (after drying of course) with RustOleum gray.  The
> RustOleum, if applied carefully, will not fill up the
> wrinkles and looks great.  Don't "hose" it.  Use three
> light coats and let it dry between them.
>
> 73
>
> Mike
> WA4DLF
>
>
>
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