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Hi,

Thanks Big Al. Colour does strange things with changes of light. Years ago I thought I would paint our garage doors in a midnight blue and bought the paint from Johnstone's. This gloss paint looked perfect on the colour chart in the store but when I applied it was horrified by how it looked in bright sunlight; the colour was incredibly light compared to what I has seen on the colour chart so I went back to the store to have it checked? The lady assistant opened the tin and using her finger dabbed a drop of the paint onto a white piece of paper and compared this with the colour chart where it showed exact match; I'll never be caught out again in such a manner; the doors are now painted black.

I'm hopelessly colour blind but I liked the colour that I saw on the YouTube Lorch lathe so matched this finding it to be green; I don't recall seeing a lathe painted this particular colour before so thought I'd give it a try for a change?

Many thanks Colin for taking the trouble to add the slide show and yes the colour does in fact look very similar; Dethleff's works looks impressive. Strange though how I selected the RAL9001 cream/white for my Graduate restoration then now selected this green for the Lorch to find both are actually quite common colours which is unusual considering how many shades of each colour there are?

Your mother gave you good advice Joe.

Because I'm spraying cellulose the colour doesn't change a great deal due to how quickly cellulose dries; it was the rare sunshine which made the green appear so light. I'll see how I feel in the morning whether I blast more paint on because the paint isn't doing any good in the tin? Another couple of days extra won't hurt given the amount of time already spent on this restoration?

Thanks for asking Colin; yes I'll send pictures to Steve whom I bought the Lorch from; I think he might be rather surprised but then again he has already seen my Graduate lathe and Wilmac bandsaw restorations but this Lorch sure will look a lot different from the day when Bron described as a load of rusty metal the day the Lorch arrived?

One thing is certain; the parts from this Lorch are very heavy being substantial cast iron castings; just trying to lift the tray to turn it over is a real challenge working on my own.

Kind regards, Col.