Date:         Sun, 8 Jun 2008 10:53:30 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Brown paint for interior plastic parts
Comments: To: Robert Stewart <robertmstewart@mac.com>
In-Reply-To:  <0F339DB8-53CA-4691-8947-B419FE76C4BA@mac.com>
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Cool stuff but they only show modern interior colours - nohing really brown
at all....

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Robert Stewart <robertmstewart@mac.com>
wrote:

> Check out SEM as they make spray paints in cans just for car interiors.
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> http://www.sem.ws/
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> 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
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> 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
>>
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