26-11-2011, 05:58 PM
So the 'Maestro' sorted out a Maestro then? Good little firm that one-man 'Bodgit and Scarper' outift eh? Steve just quietly gets on with it and never fails to come up to scratch!
If you do decide to respray it Joe, I'm sure the cabinet is Bakelite so painstripper won't harm it. Grey primer as used for cars will give a nice base for the top coat. Halford's aren't the cheapest but their paints are mostly acrylic, which is much more pleasant to use and gives a nice finish if you can find a car colour to your liking. If you can't you may find a firm in Sheffield that will mix and fill an aerosol while you wait. There is, or certainly was, a little firm at Stairfoot in Barnsley who had shade cards with holes oin the middle. If you wanted to match the colour of a car which had faded through sunlight for example, they put the acrds on the panel until they got an exact match on the car as the panel showing through the hole, then mixed it and filled a 600mL aerosol while you waited. When I had my BMW motorbike I needed to match the colour (gunmetal metallic) to repair some damage on the built-in fairing and they matched it perfectly.
Utterly irrelevant to your Maestro of course, and in the wrong neck of the woods for you, but I mention it to illustrate that if you can't see a colour to your liking, there may well be a firm in Sheff that will mix any colour of the rainbow. But to use another celestial metaphor, they may want to charge you the moon, the stars and the rising sun for it!
Best of luck with it Joe - at least the Maestro now does what it should do - talks and sings
If you do decide to respray it Joe, I'm sure the cabinet is Bakelite so painstripper won't harm it. Grey primer as used for cars will give a nice base for the top coat. Halford's aren't the cheapest but their paints are mostly acrylic, which is much more pleasant to use and gives a nice finish if you can find a car colour to your liking. If you can't you may find a firm in Sheffield that will mix and fill an aerosol while you wait. There is, or certainly was, a little firm at Stairfoot in Barnsley who had shade cards with holes oin the middle. If you wanted to match the colour of a car which had faded through sunlight for example, they put the acrds on the panel until they got an exact match on the car as the panel showing through the hole, then mixed it and filled a 600mL aerosol while you waited. When I had my BMW motorbike I needed to match the colour (gunmetal metallic) to repair some damage on the built-in fairing and they matched it perfectly.
Utterly irrelevant to your Maestro of course, and in the wrong neck of the woods for you, but I mention it to illustrate that if you can't see a colour to your liking, there may well be a firm in Sheff that will mix any colour of the rainbow. But to use another celestial metaphor, they may want to charge you the moon, the stars and the rising sun for it!
Best of luck with it Joe - at least the Maestro now does what it should do - talks and sings
Regards, David.
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'I'm in my own little world, but I'm happy, and they know me here'
