I see why. I never worked on an airplane engine.
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I see why. I never worked on an airplane engine.
https://www.victor-aviation.com/imag...ldEdition_.jpg
No problem Pat, pm me with your postal address and I'll prep one when I get home on Friday. I'll send a second card with just the primer base on it then you can make a card with the new source and compare the two shades apples-for-apples ..especially as you bend the cards to see how they change with light direction.
Please post a picture of the comparison.
PS. note Holger's engine isn't MK2 Ent. paint, he used a very close color he found in Europe.
Continental aircraft engines
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Pat, thanks for the lead. I just ordered a can to touch up my recently painted engine. I'll post how it compares.
Lee
I'm struggling to find the right shade of Continental gold engine paint. Mark II Enterprises seems to be out of the paint business, due to their supplier. The other brand, Tempo listed above is NLA, the close match or recommended Continental gold replacement from the website site is not even close.
Has anyone tied this paint? SEYMOUR PAINT Hi-Tech Engine Paints Universal Gold EN-50?
The car will not be a 100-point restoration but want it to be as close as possible.
I simply had some spray bombs made locally.
I had for my Packard as well, but I'm trying to avoid the labor to try and match perfectly.
Last perfect match (as perfect as possible for a NLA, non-cataloged paint) for less than 10 oz was about $700 which in my mind is a fair amount for a body color with that many spray outs to get to the match.
I don't trust that I can scan the "true" existing color to even have a foundation, so I see a like bill, with limited results, which I'm trying to avoid.
Would you be willing to share the mix that your shop came up with showing the colors/percentages to create the engine paint?
There is no formula. It was mixed by eye.
I don't know if you get Duplicolor in the United States...but I took my jack into the local Canadian Tire (Similar to O'Reilly's) here in Canada and compared it with about 45 shades of gold they had in rattle cans there. This color was identical to my jack that was in original paint. Its called "Gold Ash Metallic"
Could be the light you're looking at it with, but the original color has a hint of green that seems to be missing from this color paint. Most paint shops will mix a couple of rattle cans for you.