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Title: Anyone succesfully tried rattle can gold spray to look like anno?
Post by: mark 2 on October 07, 2007, 11:59 PM
Had some DX's I wanted to strip and tidy up, any reason why a rattle can from halfords would look crap?
thank yooooooou :daumenhoch:

mark
Title: Re: Anyone succesfully tried rattle can gold spray to look like anno?
Post by: MartyC on October 08, 2007, 12:02 AM
Poor wrist movement would be the only thing, but you've got plenty of experience there Mark so can't really see a problem  :LolLolLolLol:

On a serious note, just getting the colour to match really, it's not a metallic gold on the DX's from what I can remember  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Anyone succesfully tried rattle can gold spray to look like anno?
Post by: Bob_Acid on October 08, 2007, 12:04 AM
DX's wern't annodised anyway they were painted  :daumenhoch:

There's a post somewhere that Dave Rom put up about restoring DX's.
Title: Re: Anyone succesfully tried rattle can gold spray to look like anno?
Post by: mark 2 on October 08, 2007, 12:12 AM
I think I remember the post from quite a while back, was it a silver based paint he started with and  clear blue glass paint?


And Marty....sssh! You know I'm sensative about people knowing about my flagpole battering.......my keyboards in braile btw. Move on...back to dx resto....
Title: Re: Anyone succesfully tried rattle can gold spray to look like anno?
Post by: oberonspacefruit on October 08, 2007, 01:04 PM
gold paint is usually very poor in my experience.

yellow glass paint may look gold over a polished alloy pedal though....
Title: Re: Anyone succesfully tried rattle can gold spray to look like anno?
Post by: brass monkey! on October 08, 2007, 01:08 PM
i've done the glass paint thing,...to touch up gold levers, also black levers also, looks good. Trying blue next..

Pete (Quadrophenia) has done some gold bit too,.......good effect and cheap too !

i'll check the colours i used on the blue n black and lyk if you want them..
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