[Milsurplus] Cleaning fine crackle paint

[Ron Lawrence]

> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Cleaning fine crackle paint
> 
> One last comment:  OZ Cream Polish.  I had a TBW that must have been 
> stored outdoors as the black crackle looked awful with white scabby 
> patches.  The OZ Cream Polish restored it to deep black, almost like 
> new.  It's worth a try before stripping and repainting.
> 
> Richard, AA1P
>

The mention of "cream polish" reminded me of something else I
tried a couple years ago.
I had brought home a Atwater Kent model 37 who's crackle paint
was fully intact but was really dull.
I did a good cleaning of the cabinet but it didn't help it was
still really dull.
I had been using shoe polish on leather case radios like Zenith
Transoceanics, I thought I'd give it a try on the AK-37. Since
the AK crackle paint was supposed to be a brown color so I got
my can of Kiwi brown shoe polish an and gave it a good coat and
using a powered buffer I had given my dad for father's day about
a hundred years ago buffed it off, looked pretty good so I gave
it another coat, this time it looked great. I've had several
collectors see it and remake about how nice the original paint
was. 
The next time I get a black wrinkle painted radio that needs some
help I'm going to try some black shoe polish on it.

LLAP

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