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hermetic:
What is this "industrial Hammerite" of which you speak, and where may one obtain it? I share your opinion of the new stuff, it's crap, but I have a couple of machines I want to refinish in their original (or as near as) colours, a Taiwan but good 14" bandsaw, and a Qualters and Smith hacksaw, both in light green hammer finish, which is not part of the "new" hammerite range! swapping an excellent product for a reduced range inferior product is not progress! It is now an Akzo Nobel Product, and I see they are also selling Kurust, which used to be a Kingston paints (Hull) product. Ho hum.
awemawson:
My usual department store:
http://www.ebaystores.co.uk/mdabitec
This is the particular one I used :
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5L-Silver-Hammer-Finish-Metal-Paint-Hammered-Coating-Bitec-/381087433694?hash=item58ba94c3de
awemawson:
While waiting for varnish to dry . . . YAWN . . . I started playing with Inkscape the graphics program. It is amazingly versatile but I find it's human interface rather clunky and non-intuitive.
Casting about for something to experiment with I thought - why not try and copy one of the silver foil labels that originally adorned the doors of these Versatool cabinets.
So, taking a photograph of the one surviving label, and much assistance from YouTube I cleaned up the image, dropped the back ground, adjusted the inevitable distortion and then set the size to that of the original. Then (more YouTube!) surrounded it by a box with rounded corners as cutting guides, and created a full page with four copies evenly distributed - four being the maximum I could get on an A4 sheet.
Success so far, as it printed on paper very nicely, but the original was on 'silver' foil - what's available. Once again eBay came up trumps with full A4 self adhesive laser printable silver foil stock with a fast delivery at a reasonable price. It arrived this morning, and a quick bit of setting up produced four nice labels cut from the sheet by careful application of a scalpel.
The foil print was quite ruckled as it came out of the printer, but the labels flatten down OK when applied.
(I confess that the second label applied to the right hand door was to cover a paint blemish :palm: )
Altogether quite pleasing.
awemawson:
Then finally, now the varnish is dry, the counter top was replaced
charadam:
I was going to ask how you ere going to deal with the large paint flaws on the right hand door - but cleaned my screen instead!
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