Eugene Powell wrote:
> You know people still insist on a color match to repaint their old
> "rancid Pepto-Bismal pink" Trek (all SR, columbus tubed, 770?) !?
Don't you mean "970?" IIRC, the 7xx series were Reynolds 531, and the
9xx series were Colombus. But I probably worked on that bike; most of
the early 80's 770 and 970 frames passed through me at one time or another.
> The paint distributor had to mix 5 quarts to get the mix right. Charged
> me plenty for the first quart (the 1 that I ordered) and told me to get
> the other gallon out of there before anybody saw it.
[duck and run] But I didn't do paint!
:-)
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA