On Friday, 22 September 2017 21:08:19 UTC+1, Ade wrote:
On 22/09/2017 17:55, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 00:01:06 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Trust you to try and bring the EU into it.

Well, if we *ever* get to leave it, I won't need to any more.


Good quality car paint has never been cheap. And just what do you mean
by enamel?

I recall back in the day (70s) there was pretty much only two choices:
cellulose or 2-pack (a very nasty cyanide based paint made by Parsons).
The best cellulose IMHO was manufactured by Glasurit (you may remember
the tins all came with their parrot logo on the front) and it was only
about a fiver a litre at the time. Very reasonable indeed.




I had a Transit for many years. I sprayed it occasionally
using a mixture of paraffin and white gloss household paint.

Used to get a lovely tough finish to it.

Household gloss does work. It fades a bit over time and of course isn't as tough as good car paint. The main issue is that it tends to be used by total bodge merchants who make a horrid mess of it.


NT

On 22/09/2017 17:58, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:37:36 +0100, Muddymike wrote:


Or do what WTWNFI and I used to do when we ran old bangers. Get the
4inch brush out and re-paint the whole car in whatever gloss was
knocking around.

Mike

Blimey, that must have looked a sight!


They looked fine as long as you didn't get to close when they were
clean:-) My current Land Rover is also brush painted.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y7nt9524

Mike

On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:03:15 +0100, Muddymike wrote:


They looked fine as long as you didn't get to close when they were
clean:-) My current Land Rover is also brush painted.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y7nt9524

Mike

Oh, a lightweight. Planning on doing the Paris-Dakar are we?



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