Singer Paint Colour Match

[Uwe]

I'd love to find an on-this-continent source for properly tinted hammertone spray paints.

Alternatively perhaps a silver hammertone base coat and tinted clearcoat airbrushed topcoat may be a good approach. I've not seen hammertone paint you can mix yourself for airbrush use.

I think I will also try one of these silicone rubber plug kits for my next sewing machine paint project to plug holes. They're made for high-temp power coating applications but they might work nicely for spray painting, too. About $0.10 a piece in bulk quantities on Amazon. They might even be reusable if you can just peel the paint off them after it dries, or perhaps just pull them out while the paint is still wet.

Edited February 10, 2016 by Uwe

[dikman]

A lightly tinted clearcoat over a silver base is an interesting idea.

[Constabulary]

but when the tinted clear coat is rubbing off (maybe one day) it looks even uglier. Since the entire machine is not the nicest paint wise (no offense) I´d rather paint the entire machine in silver and put a new black decal on it. In my opinion the best compromise and it looks even better. I once did that when I restored my 29K71.

[Colt W Knight]

I'd love to find an on-this-continent source for properly tinted hammertone spray paints.

Alternatively perhaps a silver hammertone base coat and tinted clearcoat airbrushed topcoat may be a good approach. I've not seen hammertone paint you can mix yourself for airbrush use.

I think I will also try one of these silicone rubber plug kits for my next sewing machine paint project to plug holes. They're made for high-temp power coating applications but they might work nicely for spray painting, too. About $0.10 a piece in bulk quantities on Amazon. They might even be reusable if you can just peel the paint off them after it dries, or perhaps just pull them out while the paint is still wet.

I would think hammertone paint would be too thick to spray in an airbrush. I have sprayed it through a regular hvlp gun, but I had to use a big tip. Thinning it really kills the hammered look.

I do a lot of custom paint on firearms and guitars, and the trick to removing plugs and masking is to let it dry enough that you can remove the plug/tape and the paint will heal itself, but not so dry that pulling the masking off with chip the hard paint. When you let it set just right, you can peel that stuff like a banana. Still soft, but dry enough not to hurt anything

Edited February 10, 2016 by Colt W Knight

[dikman]

Good point, Constabulary. I suppose as long as I didn't use it..........nah, very unlikely.

Black decals? All I've found do far have been gold ones.