Re: [CR]Touchup paint advice sought

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:52:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Touchup paint advice sought
To: "CR List (E-mail)" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <000001c910ff$afa68300$6d7ba8c0@dkbwin2k>


David,
     You can always spray into a cup, and then use a brush to apply the paint taht collected in the cup.
     Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginis (USA)


--- On Sun, 9/7/08, David Bean wrote:


> From: David Bean <beandk@rcn.com>

\r?\n> Subject: [CR]Touchup paint advice sought

\r?\n> To: "CR List (E-mail)" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

\r?\n> Date: Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:37 AM

\r?\n> My 69 Paramount has a lot of chips out of the paint and I

\r?\n> want to touch them

\r?\n> up. I have a spray can of the correct Schwinn color.

\r?\n> My question is: Would it be better to let the propellant

\r?\n> out of the can (by

\r?\n> turning upside down and depressing the valve), cut it open

\r?\n> and decant; and

\r?\n> brush the paint on the sanded and primed spots. Or just

\r?\n> spray with

\r?\n> extensive masking?

\r?\n>

\r?\n> There's not much paint in one of those little cans, of

\r?\n> course, and it won't

\r?\n> be easy to find any more of it. I don't want to

\r?\n> repaint overall because I

\r?\n> like the old dealer decal and the pinstriping.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> David Bean

\r?\n> Arlington, MA USA

\r?\n> beandk at are-see-enn dot com