From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Fri Feb 27 2004 - 13:15:55 PST
When do you mix in the beer? How soon do you start spraying? Do you filter
it through your kidneys first? Does it matter if it's dark, lite, low-carb?
Bottle, can, draught? Please be more specific. We rely on your eshperteeeze.
hic!
a p bloom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doc Bryant" <rbhonk1@cox.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] WW II OD (was) Original paint color for M135?
> Gents:
>
> We have hammered around the paint color issue for a bit of time now. I
was
> going to stay out of it, but call it an irresistible impulse.
>
> For my curriculum vitae, I spent six years as the regional rep for the
> Automotive Refinishes Div. of the Sherwin-Williams Co. Perhaps you've
heard
> of them..."Cover the Earth" and all that? I covered West Texas and
Eastern
> New Mexico. A goodly sized chunk of earth.
>
> A paint standard details how a paint will be made. It details how it will
> be applied. Inspectors check to see that the paint is made to the
> applicable standard.
>
> Damn few inspectors get into the paint booth to make sure it's applied
using
> "standard procedures."
>
> Changes in the type of thinner/reducer used can cause a color shift.
> Changes in the air pressure can cause color variations. Changes in the
> drying process can cause a color shift also. In some finishes, the color
> can deviate from standard just because of weather conditions on the day
when
> the vehicle was painted.
>
> Some might reply, "Oh Doc, that only happens in metallic or pearlescent
> finishes." Au contraire, you can have color shift to to deviations from
the
> norm in solid colors. I can remember six or seven distinct shade
variations
> in GM's code 12 "refrigerator white."
>
> Standards may lead one to believe that there is no this or that out there.
> Because Standards prevent that.
> Give me a Binks 7 spray gun and an assortment of solvents and a six pack
of
> beer and I will bust those standards all to hell. And I will show you
that
> which you have not seen before, and therefore does not exist according to
> Standards. And I will look you square in the eye and say, "Hey, I just
used
> what I was told to."
>
> Standards, you know.
>
> Doc Bryant
>
> 1952 M37 currently immovable object, returning to natural state
>
>
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