[Coco] Painting Yellowed CoCo Cases

Boisy G. Pitre boisy at boisypitre.com
Sun May 2 12:51:18 EDT 2004


This is what you speak of?

http://www.krylon.com/main/product_template.cfm? 
levelid=5&sub_levelid=10&productid=1751&content=product_details


Looks pretty good.  I'll have to head over to Wal-Mart today and pick  
some up.

Boisy

On May 2, 2004, at 10:47 AM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> Boisy
>
> There is a new spray paint from Krylon that is supposed to be better
> suited for plastics. Standard water based paints do not work well on
> most plastics.
>
> there are some laquer and oil based paints that might have some
> success. Still overall painting plastics is not a very good solution.
>
> That is why the new Krylon spray paint is interesting.
>
> james
>
> On 2 May 2004 at 10:25, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
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>> Someone posted recently about removing the yellowing that can take
>> place on CoCo cases.  I have one or two CoCos that I've inherited that
>> really need some type of makeover.  Has anyone experimented with
>> different spray paints?  I'm not interested in weird colors for now,
>> just plain "white" or something as close as possible to the original
>> color.
>>
>> The CoCo case tops tend to have a good anchor profile, with small
>> ridges and bumps that should provide a good base for paints.  Should
>> the case be primed first?   Any considerations that you chemists out
>> there can provide?
>>
>> Boisy
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