| lawn.ninja |
Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:06 am |
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Hey guys... I just got a call from my painter telling me he can't paint my car with the L243 Diamond Grey color because he can't get the paint anymore. He's saying the single stage stuff has different toners in it and thanks to california law he can't use the right paint anymore. He said everything changed when we went to water based paints.
He bascially spit enough technical information at me to confuse me. Admittedly I'm not a painter and the tech info was above my head. But I need to the car to be this color. Do you guys have any suggestions. Is there a generic formula that he can work from and make adjustments according to his toners? If that makes any sense at all, which I doubt.
All I know is I need help from some people who have a clue about this paint stuff. I'm in over my head when it comes to competently talking about mixing this stuff up. |
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| bubblehead |
Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:02 pm |
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If you have anything with decent original paint on it you can take it to the paint store and they can laser scan it to get something close. You'll then have to tweak the color at the shop until you are happy with the match. If your paint guy can't do this I'd question his ability to paint a car. You could
also have the supply shop scan the color chip from the book but you'll still
be colormatching regardless. |
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| lawn.ninja |
Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:04 pm |
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| That is exactly what I ended up doing, thanks. My paint guy was just being lazy when he asked if I wanted to do it another color. But I impressed upon him the importance of having it be the original color. Not to mention I already put out a small fortune for the interior based off the assumption I was painting it that color. I went down there this afternoon, machine buffed out one of the tailights and matched it to that. I also had what the PO told me was the original color in a quart container. I found that and brought it down and we reversed the PPG formula and came up with a color. Then we mixed up a few batches until we got the right green/bronze pearl in so it matched the buffed out tailight. The PO had some parts laser scanned but the color was a bit too white. All in all I think I am damn close to the original color, so close no one will ever know the difference. |
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| Malokin Martin |
Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:30 pm |
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| Can't you still get the lead based in mexico? |
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