[Hammarlund] HQ-129X paint

[Carl]

There is nothing wrong with my front panel except a thick layer of 
nicotine which has been carefully removed. Its just the bezel where most 
of the brown wrinkle has flaked off.

Owning a custom car body shop Im somewhat familiar with painting 
procedures but wasnt in the waiting mood to get a custom auto paint mix 
on Monday. Instead I had WalWart mix a quart of latex for $6.96; Ive 
always wanted to see if latex is any good anyway. Pretty soon all cars 
will be that way.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tisha Hayes" <tisha.hayes at gmail.com>
To: <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:47 PM
Subject: [Hammarlund] HQ-129X paint


>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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