[ICOM] 781 cabinet paint, revisited...

[bmartn]

If that is the case, then do it the right way.  Go to a high end body shop
supply house, have them shoot the cabinet with a computer color sensing gun
and then mix the color properly.  Once you have the color, add in a mixture
of de-glossing additive to attain the right level of luster.  Use a high end
two part urethane paint, which now becomes three part and spray it over a
two part primer (please use a high quality spray gun fed by a compressor
which can maintain pressure and use a high quality water/oil separator).
This will give you a professional looking cabinet short of going to a
electrostatic paint finish; which is most likely what the factory used.  

Using spray cans of Krylon, Rustoleum, Duplicolor, whatever are going to
give you, ummmmm, an amateur paint job.  What I would expect to see when
trying to save money.  

Short of that, pay a shop to do it and save the effort and keep your 781
value intact.





-----Original Message-----
From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Ham Op
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:50 PM
To: ICOM Reflector
Subject: Re: [ICOM] 781 cabinet paint, revisited...

Those who are trying to put the original color back in restoration are WHO 
cares. That is what this forum is about, trying to help out and maybe sell 
or buy some Icom product or ask a general question... Just hit the delete 
button til you get a subject  you like..
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bmartn" <bmarton at maine.rr.com>
To: "'ICOM Reflector'" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:43 PM
Subject: RE: [ICOM] 781 cabinet paint, revisited...


> Once again...when will this thread end... I am getting a very worn delete
> key finger.   WHO CARES
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] 
> On
> Behalf Of Ham Op
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:38 PM
> To: ICOM Reflector
> Subject: Re: [ICOM] 781 cabinet paint, revisited...
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> Let me bring my wife back in to look! hi   And, I took the top cover into 
> a
> paint store and the two owners both went to the gray, sprayed on a wooden
> flat stirring stick and put up next to the cover. Neither one went to the
> green color. BUT, I will go search this out..
> TU for sleuth work.. hi
> San K5YY
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> From: "T. Brad Smith" <ka5cdj at ka5cdj.com>
> To: "'ICOM Reflector'" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:30 PM
> Subject: RE: [ICOM] 781 cabinet paint, revisited...
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>>I Guess I MUST have developed Color Blindness myself .... All My Icom Rigs
>> IC-781, IC-9000, IC-970 are a very dark GREEN.
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>> On
>> Behalf Of Ham Op
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 18:57 PM
>> To: ICOM Reflector
>> Subject: [ICOM] 781 cabinet paint, revisited...
>>
>> Ken:
>>   Thanks so much! Did not know of a hammered unique finish.. What will
>> they
>>
>> come up with next?  I did find out today that I was using "metalic" 
>> paint,
>
>> a
>>
>> BIG blunder on my part. That was causing the almost black color at 
>> certain
>> angles and real silvery from directly above. I had the top color matched
>> at
>> a paint store and it turned out to be medium gray matt (slightly shinier
>> than flat and less that semigloss).. But, when I put it on, the color
>> appeared slightly lighter than original but the black reflections from
>> metalic settling is now gone. So, I think the dark gray or charcoal would
>> have been better and slightly darker. I paid $13 for a large can and 
>> could
>> not buy the real small can. Now I either go with the darker gray matt or
>> use
>>
>> the Rustoleum dark gray primer and see what happens. Boy, is this fun! hi
>>   Thanks again.
>> San K5YY
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