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| mexican jon:
I know it really doesn't matter :scratch: But ? I'm about to give the myford a good service and whilst the grey paint isn't to bad it has seen better days :( I prefer the green that myford used :thumbup: So what's people views on repainting machine tools in a different colour :scratch: 1 day I guess the lathe will be up for sale so is it better to refurbish in it's original colour or will changing the colour have little effect :scratch: I know that green coloured myford seem to sell easier and seem to make more money :bang: that I guess is just a perception that they are better :loco: or newer which could be true. |
| mattinker:
Whatever floats your boat! There's no accounting for taste! Regards, Matthew. |
| chipenter:
Better paint than shades of rust . |
| awemawson:
I'd always prefer a machine in its original paint albeit a bit tired and chipped than one that's been badly repainted, or tarted up, for sale. To do a proper job most machines need to be fully dismantled and stripped, and that's a lot of work. |
| Jo:
They also need to be done in the right sort of paint otherwise in no time they are back looking worse than they started. Tool dealers used to have nasty habit of repainting Myfords before they resell them: What should have been a Grey machine was painted Green so they could ask more money for it. When I look to buy a machine I prefer one that is in its original paint. You can see how its been used or abused. Having said that I brought a Signal Red :palm: painted Sixis 101 and I know of a Schaublin SV12 that was a very nasty shade of Jaffa Orange :loco: when it was picked up. The Sixis had the offending paint scraped off leaving the original (much harder) metallic green and the Schaublin was blasted and re-enamelling its original colour. Jo P.S. I was told the two Swiss machines were repainted in "security paint" to make them easily recognised if stolen. If you take the case of the 101 it originally cost more new then your average 3 bed house at the time, it is easily dismantled and fits in the back of a family car, so security was an issue. |
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