Subject: Source for "Hammertone" paint?

From: "Christopher J. Galbraith" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 19:39:21 -0500

Anybody know of any hardware chains, etc.. that carry hammertone paint
(I know Illinois Bronze makes it)??

TIA
-Chris

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From: [email-masked] (Felice Luftschein & Nicholas Carter)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 07:05:13 GMT

>-Chris
In Oregon, The "GI Joe's" chain of stores carries it,
but I don't know if they exist in any other states.

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Norton)
Date: 15 Dec 1996 03:08:05 GMT

If you can find an old style electronics parts store (the one with WW2 stuff in 
the attic), they may have it.  It was popular for painting electronic panels in 
the fifties.  (Before that, they used a lot of black crackle.)

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] says...

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 14 Dec 1996 15:52:37 GMT

>(I know Illinois Bronze makes it)??

I once accidently created hammertone by adding the wrong thinner to auto
paint. It looked like hammertone in the can and it came out that way on
the 55 Volkswagon. It dried OK and lasted just fine. Can't recall what I
mixed with what but I think it was a one coat enamel auto finish and I
mixed laquer thinners with it. Almost positive that was the mix. Give it a
try. I know it was and enamel finish as I had no way of buffing a laquer
finish. 

Peter

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From: "Dennis A. Armstrong" <[email-masked]>
Date: 14 Dec 96 22:29:27 GMT

Mixing paints can be interesting.  I once mixed the wrong lacquer thinner
into a pint of automotive lacquer and got a pint size lump (in the can)
before I even got the stick swirled around more than a few strokes.
-- 
Dennis A. Armstrong
[email-masked]

[email-masked] wrote in article
<[email-masked]>...

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From: Bill Kish <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 17:58:44 -0500

> (I know Illinois Bronze makes it)??

 There is also a brand called "Hammerite", Eastwood (the auto
restoration mail order co.) carries it.

		-BK