[Milsurplus] OD crackle paint ?

[AKLDGUY .]

Harley Davidson sell cans of touch up paint. Some of their bikes have
black wrinkle finish and they sell cans of black wrinkle. You can walk
into a HD showroom and inspect the paint jobs on the bikes.

As for heating, what's wrong with a hair dryer? You can localize the
heat just long enough to achieve the desired wrinkle, then move on.

Just suggestions; I haven't tried these things.

73 de Neil ZL1ANM


On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Mike Durff via Milsurplus <
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> One of my first jobs was rebuilding time clocks, i.e. time card and / or
> master clocks. Part of the rebuilding process was repainting the cabinets.
> In the basement of the shop we had an old oven fitted with those ( now
> antique ) heater coils with the light bulb type base. I would flip on the
> oven and wait for it to come up to around 200 degrees +/-. I would then
> spray the metal cabinet and place it on the oven rack for about 30 minutes
> +/-. When removed, it yielded a "perfect" wrinkle finish. Of course this
> was back in the 1960's and the paint probably contained all sorts of "bad
> stuff". However, using modern "wrinkle" paint from the auto parts store,
> I've found it to be just fine if the object being painted is left to dry in
> direct sunlight on a fairly warm day 72 degrees +.
>
> TNX, Durff , K4TQF
>
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