Some links to DIY hammered paint
https://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=24219.0
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/hammered-paint-in-a-custom-color.474021/
?Some of the old cans of Hammered paint that I have made by 'Hammerite" it is a European company and more then likely a supplier back in the day to Unimat.
https://www.hammerite.com/
http://www.paint-store.net/store/product.php?productid=1641
Here is another one that is made in India that is close.
https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/hammer-tone-finish-paint-23798766355.html
Jeff -----Original Message-----
From: Jkle379184 via groups.io <jkle379184@...> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Mar 24, 2023 8:47 pm Subject: Re: [Unimat] Rustoleum Green Hammered Your green looks to be the lighter one, it almost looks to have a touch of yellow in it in the top photo. I have that same color on the motor of one of mine. But I also have one lathe that is a slightly darker green. The Rosemary looks to be closer to the lighter color. I am not sure that over the life span of the factory production run that the color was exactly the same . Another thing, in many decades, I have never seen a can of factory touch up paint or a link to who the paint manufacturer was, the paint color name other then 'Hammered Grey or Green". We may be chasing a ghost trying to find the exact match paint. Going years back, anyone who used the Rust-o-leum Rosemary Hammered paint, did not use it touch up a lathe, but rather used it to do a total paint job. My brother owned a sign shop for decades and he was a paint specialist by trade. I asked him years ago about matching the unimat paint, he laughed and said he easily could mix and match the color using Sign Painters "One Shot" brand enamal sign paint. But he said the "hammered"? texture was something special and I would have to go to Industrial paint store like Sherwin Williams because of the Stuff that they used to get the texture.
?Here is a link to the Rust-0-leum Material Safety Data Sheet for the Hammered paint. And be aware that this is for the new stuff, the? paint used 50 years ago would have had some nasty stuff in it. Some of the old Hammered cans of paint that I have, not aerosols either recommend using Tylene/Toulene as a thinner.
https://images.homedepot-static.com/catalog/pdfImages/7d/7d63e5e9-fe1c-4430-af1d-dcf1e5e7fab2.pdf
?Jeff
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From: Ruben <groen.drenthe@...> To: John Hutnick <johnhutnick@...>; [email protected] Sent: Fri, Mar 24, 2023 7:42 pm Subject: Re: [Unimat] Rustoleum Green Hammered ? " According to Ruben, everything I might want to do is almost useless.? This seems to be the nature of many IO discussion groups:? mostly talk. " John, you don't know me and I don't know you, but you're to fast with conclusions. I jumped into action and the 2 unimat's in original paint went for the studio to make color neutral photo's. You want to preserve the original Unimat color's, but strange enough you don't want to hear about an accurate way to do it.....!? |