Singer Paint Colour Match

[dikman]

My Singer is UK made, and is a silvery-blue (?) finish (I can't quite figure out exactly what it is). I'm guessing it's pretty much a standard colour that Singer used, so has anyone matched it to a commonly available paint?

[Constabulary]

Kwokhing has sewing machine spray paints but sending them by Airmail is not allowed afaik (HAZMAT).

http://www.kwokhing.com/sakura/paint_e.html

The Janome paint looks close

ATM I'm refurbishing a 212G141 and I have painted the top lid and face cover with silver hammerite - looks not too bad. Will post a picture later.

Edited February 7, 2016 by Constabulary

[Constabulary]

You can see the difference but looks not too bad I´d s ay

[Evo160K]

@Constabulary

Looks very good to me. Where did you get the gold decal?

[Constabulary]

that's still the original - I only have painted the lid, face plate and flat bed. I just wanted to show the difference between original paint and Hammerite silver.

[dikman]

My replacement shuttle came in so I decided to find some paint at the same time, to save me making another trip. I ended up with a silver hammertone, not as close as I would have liked but I figured the hammertone texture should look better than a smooth finish. Anyhow, it's got to look better than the wrinkly green finish on there now!

Constabulary, I know it's hard to get good photos when talking about colour matching, but that one looks pretty good to me.

[Constabulary]

This is what I have used:

http://www.hammerite.co.uk/products/direct_to_rust_metal_paint_aerosol_hammered_finish.jsp

But it is by far not quick drying - it always takes at 2 days before you can touch the surface (my experience)

Edited February 8, 2016 by Constabulary

[dikman]

Interestingly, it is available nearby - but only in black and white, no silver!!

Where do you get Singer decals from? I'll only consider repainting the body if I can replace the lettering too. This machine might be a good one for me to try as a first attempt.

[Constabulary]

See above answer #2, #5 - the body still has the original paint + decals - I though it would be obvious.

[dikman]

Sorry, I thought you had sourced the decals in the past.

This is the final result of repainting the bed. The first coat gave a nice hammered finish, the second coat smoothed it out!! The difference in colours is more noticeable in the photo, but I'm still happy with it as it looks infinitely better than the previous paint job. Whoever did the last one didn't make much attempt, if any, to mask off the main body - the overspray you can see is from the previous job.