Date:         Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:13:48 -0400
Reply-To:     Robert Stewart <robertmstewart@MAC.COM>
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From:         Robert Stewart <robertmstewart@MAC.COM>
Subject:      Re: Brown paint for interior plastic parts
Comments: To: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
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Check out SEM as they make spray paints in cans just for car interiors.

http://www.sem.ws/


http://semproducts.com/Catalog.asp?cat=36
(Check out the Color coat chip chart)*
--
Rob
NYC/Bloomingburg NY
88 Wolfsburg, Silver
236,000 miles - automatic
AIM: rmstewart@mac.com





On Jun 7, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:

> I find that shoe paint (spray can), bought at your local shoe repair
> place works well too.  M
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Doug Fitz-Randolph <fitzr@SUSCOM-MAINE.NET>
>
> Some of the brown plastic pieces - e.g. defroster vents - on my '82
> were
> quite faded. I found a spray paint color that is almost an exact
> match for
> the original brown plastic color and repainted them with great
> results. The
> paint is Krylon Ultra-flat Camouflage 4292 Brown "Made with Fusion for
> Plastic paint technology". I think with this stuff one could use more
> commonly available black parts and just paint them to match the
> stock brown
> interior. FYI I have used other colors of this paint to stripe wires
> - i.e.
> make a white wire blue & white - and it dries well and remains
> flexible.
> Rust-o-leum did not work so well - it never really dried past tacky
> on the
> plastic - so perhaps there is something to this "Fusion for Plastic
> paint
> technology".
>
> Hope someone finds this info helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> Doug Fitz-Randolph
> Freeport, ME