Thread: Engine Paint

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Detroit Diesel Alpine Green seems to be available from Amazon!
However you will need a US continental transshipping address or ay exorbitant shipping fees. You may also find that aerosol cans are prohibited articles for air mail.

Further down that Amazon page:
"Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S."

And you'll have trouble getting it shipped (legally) because it's classed as a hazardous good. So, surface shipping only and punitive charges, and you'd need (as you suggested) an intermediary in the US.

If you try to track down Holts in Australia (as I did a while ago) it gets even more messy, because they've apparently pulled out of the Australia. They have left remnants of information on the web, and some of their products are made under license (not engine paint!) but when I contacted the companies involved none of them had much idea what was going on - I was told of "a guy" who might still have some involvement, and who apparently (I kid you not) had "some files" in a box in someone else's office, and they might also have some presence in NZ. It sounded like a total mess!

And when all's said and done it doesn't (to me) look like either the British Standard Duck Egg Blue, nor the colour of the paint remnants on at least the engine I'm currently working on.....

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

As Peter G has found, both the natural or synthetic pigments can discolour when heated. This is why we need someone who can manufacture paints with ceramic tints, preferably in aerosol cans.

At the risk of sounding like a rivet counter, presumably the paint that LR originally used would have changed colour over time in the way that Peter described? That being the case, is it preferable to use a paint that stays "forever new" or a paint that acts like the original and "ages"?

It could be suggested that a Duck Egg Blue engine with 25,000Km on it shouldn't still be Duck Egg Blue..?

[This from a man who's painting the extractors on a Series II with white heat proof paint!!]

What paint are you using for the extractors?

Originally Posted by akelly

What paint are you using for the extractors?

I'm trying out the KBS high temperature products, including their zinc primer. I'm a touch skeptical of their claims that a zinc primer can survive 810C (their web site says 648C, but it states 810C on the can), but if it all falls off I'll sandblast it again and repaint!

The guys at Land Vehicle Spares in western sydney told me they sold the duck egg blue paint, but I didn't buy any at the time so don't know what brand it was.

regards
Steve

Originally Posted by drifter

Here is the PeterG paint 'test':

Paint for the engine

Thanks Drifter , that was interesting hadn't considered the effect of heat on these paints being classed as engine paint you would expect colour stabilty