I don't know if anyone really knows how diligent South Bend was
over it's history with color match and consistency.? God only
knows what went on during the war years and as long as SB was
building lathes there were probably multiple cost savings
involving paint suppliers.? One of the other variables is the
history of the individual machine.? Depending on how much crud was
allowed to accumulate and what solvents and cleaners were used to
remove it I am sure that a lot of the surviving machines vary in
color significantly.? In the case of my heavy 10, which I know has
never been painted, the color tends toward green as much as gray.?
You may want to concern yourself more with the quality and user
friendliness of the paint you choose than how closely it matches
someone else's lathe.? Just my two cents.
On 7/26/2023 11:57 AM, Mike Poore
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- I used the Sherwin-Williams mix and was not impressed. It
looked to me almost identical to the Rust-oleum oil based
Smoke Gray that I used on another machine. I admit to being a
bad judge of color. I have read, but cannot say with
certainty, that there is no proper SBL gray because of
variations year to year. I can say that I have seen multiple
SBL models that were supposedly sporting original paint and
looked different. One unanswered question for me is how age
affects the original color of 80 year old paint and if you
color match old paint are you really matching the original
color.
