RE: [CR]Re: Paint touchup suggetions

(Example: Production Builders:Cinelli)

From: "Mark" <rena.cutrufelli@comcast.net>
To: "'3WMail Guest'" <rfrobb@wcoil.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: [CR]Re: Paint touchup suggetions
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:19:26 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200311031605.LAA00417@brando.3wmail.com>


Or just take the whole bike in a paint store that scans to match. McCormick paints came out to my car. Matched my off white Buick perfectly by eye.And whites are not easy as you know. Charged only $4 for a pint!Got A McCormick near you? If so use the rust resistant hard enamel-great stuff.

Best Wishes Mark Cutrufelli Laurel,MD

-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of 3WMail Guest Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:06 AM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Re: Paint touchup suggetions

Paul and P.C,

If they are scanning the 3x3 area on a car, why can't you take a digital pix of your bike and either: 1) import the image color into their program for analysis or: 2) take a pix of your bike, and using glossy pix stock, edit the color on a 3x3 sheet of stock, edit the color in a software program to be as near as possible to your bike's color, and then print and have them scan it?

Seems like with all the technology out there today, it shouldn't be too hard to overcome this.

Rick "just a thought" Robbins Ada, Ohio ------------------------------

Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:10:09 -0500 From: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: Re: [CR]Paint Touch-up suggestions (Dave Whitney) Message-ID: <000c01c3a20b$cfb39a60$22e0fea9@man> References: <9DDBE7FB6F93D61181100008023DD54C305C98@mail.sheridancorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Message: 11
> with a paint code. My intent is to bring the frame into the store and have
> the paint matched. I'll buy a can and try an airbrush touch-up.

Dave.. hope this does work. But a paint store told me that the scanner thingy these places have is designed to scan what bikes don't have a lot of: square FLAT surfaces. I volunteered at a street car museum and painted a lot of the trolleys and we always used auto enamel (Dupont Dulux) and it was easy to get matches. We found the original colours used were often... auto colours in the first place!! Somehow I bet bike paint was the same.

I am having a 1948 Clubman painted in England and have specifically asked for the painter to include a square piece of metal or plastic painted with the colour (Polychromatic Olive) so I can have this matched with a US market car paint so we'll at least have one colour matched.

P.C. Kohler Washington, D.C.

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Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:10:46 -0500 From: raleypc@netscape.net To: Dwhitney@sheridancorp.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]Paint Touch-up suggestions (Dave Whitney) Message-ID: <4913AC7D.215C2923.00211578@netscape.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: list Message: 12

Don't get your hopes up! I have found that most the the paint matching devices need a 3" x 3" flat surface to analyze. So unless you are restoring a Raleigh DL-1 with a full oil bath chaincase it may not work!

Good luck in any case, Paul Raley Leonardtown MD

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