[Hammarlund] HQ-129X paint

[Tisha Hayes]

I have a fine grained black, crinkle faced HQ-129x. Fortunately it is still
in the original factory paint (with a few chips around the edges). I too
have seen them in several different shades, colors and finishes.

There seems to be two roads;

1). Repaint and reletter the entire front panel. If so, then do what best
fits your mental image of what an HQ-129x should look like.

If you strip the front panel, treat the work as if you were re-painting a
car with wet sanding, primer steps, more wet sanding, tacky rag and if you
have it available, use a small sprayer (with thinned out paint) and shoot
multiple coats, light wet sanding, final coat and a low temperature oven to
improve the curing.

2). Touch up and reblend the front panel (masking off the letters or areas
that look good) and try to find a very close match to what you have now.
This is a real art and I have seen some very poor attempts made at it.

If you are going to try to do touch-up work, selective painting and blending
then you really need to remove all of the oxidation and crud from the
surface to find the real color. Years of aging, smokers and heat can
significantly change what the front panel originally looked like. Once you
get to this point and do the touch-up and blending, you can seal, wax,
whatever the front panel and have the results look consistent.

Tisha Hayes
-- 
Factory certified interoceter repair center.
"Remember, use only genuine interoceter parts."

"Sometimes you need to look the potato of injustice right in the eye and say
"I am not taking any more of this!""
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