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[CI 0308]

Been mucking around repainting and polishing a couple of hotwire mags I picked up and after a few different colour trial and errors I finally found a colour that is reasonably close to the original metallic grey/black.

Its available from Bunnings for around $13 a can and it has the metallic fleck to it and is flat finish. I am reasonably happy with the result.

 

 

Rust-Oleum Flat Metallic Spray Paint "Flat Soft Iron"

Edited by CI 0308, 23 July 2017 - 05:10 PM.

[Redslur]

Good work.  Love the old hotwires!

[TerrA LX]

Nice.
Did you mask the wires or just wipe it off?

[CI 0308]

I scraped it off while the paint was still soft after about an hour. Then just gave the aluminium a wipe with thinners.

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[royalplumss]

Thanks CI 0308

 

I knew if I waited long enough someone would figure this out for me!.............

[AbsynthHatch]

Were the early Aunger hot wires the same colour or were they black?

[CI 0308]

Were the early Aunger hot wires the same colour or were they black?

Not really sure as I think mine are reasonably early. On my car I have 10x15 and 10x14 and they are quite black, the ones that I did in this post were 8x14 and 9-1/4x14 with a series number written inside the rim in marker of 608 so I would say that is quite early and were reasonably flat black as well. The colour I did them in is slightly more silver because of the metal flake in the paint but for me they come up pretty close.

[AbsynthHatch]

Yeh I have played around with various automotive spray cans trying to achieve the correct Cheviot grey and didn't get a satisfactory result but you have hit the nail on the head.

 

A really nice result and at a decent price.