Author Topic: Anyone succesfully tried rattle can gold spray to look like anno? (Read 609 times)

mark 2 · « **on:** October 07, 2007, 11:59 PM »

Had some DX's I wanted to strip and tidy up, any reason why a rattle can from halfords would look crap?
thank yooooooou

mark

MartyC · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2007, 12:02 AM »

Poor wrist movement would be the only thing, but you've got plenty of experience there Mark so can't really see a problem

On a serious note, just getting the colour to match really, it's not a metallic gold on the DX's from what I can remember

Bob_Acid · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2007, 12:04 AM »

DX's wern't annodised anyway they were painted

There's a post somewhere that Dave Rom put up about restoring DX's.

mark 2 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2007, 12:12 AM »

I think I remember the post from quite a while back, was it a silver based paint he started with and clear blue glass paint?

And Marty....sssh! You know I'm sensative about people knowing about my flagpole battering.......my keyboards in braile btw. Move on...back to dx resto....

oberonspacefruit · « **Reply #4 on:** October 08, 2007, 01:04 PM »

gold paint is usually very poor in my experience.

yellow glass paint may look gold over a polished alloy pedal though....

brass monkey! · « **Reply #5 on:** October 08, 2007, 01:08 PM »

i've done the glass paint thing,...to touch up gold levers, also black levers also, looks good. Trying blue next..

Pete (Quadrophenia) has done some gold bit too,.......good effect and cheap too !

i'll check the colours i used on the blue n black and lyk if you want them..