Crispy Beef
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 posted on 15/12/02 at 12:20 PM |
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Engine Enamel
Hi All,
Just joined the site as there seems to be a lot of useful info and discussions here. I am currently in the middle of building a kit car and am about
to start rebuilding the engine, but before I put it all back together again I want to make it look a little nicer.
I want to paint the block yellow (the car is taking a yellow/black theme), but for the life of me cannot find anywhere that seems to do yellow engine
enamel in a pot (found one that does an aerosol though).
Any suggestions as to where I might find some?
Cheers.
-- Crispy
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bob
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| posted on 15/12/02 at 12:39 PM |
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Why not use the aerosol
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Crispy Beef
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| posted on 15/12/02 at 12:43 PM |
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Well I probably will as a last resort, but it's gonna be a lot easier to use a brush to get to all the hard to reach bits, plus I won't have to mask
everything off.
Plus I don't really have much room to spray without it getting over everything.
-- Crispy
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chrisg
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| posted on 15/12/02 at 12:56 PM |
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Frost restoration do brushing engine enamel - not sure about yellow tho... I'll find the book and let you know.
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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Crispy Beef
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| posted on 15/12/02 at 01:32 PM |
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Found them in a search on Google, they seem to have just about every colour bar yellow :-/
Frost Enamels
Plus they seem a bit expensive too. A friend of mine did his engine in red and got hold of the enamel from Halfords (4.99 a tin), but phoned them and
they don't do yellow.
Cheers.
-- Crispy
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chrisg
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| posted on 15/12/02 at 02:17 PM |
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Por-15 who supply Frost do a colour called hi po yellow:-
http://por-15.freeyellow.com/Engine.html
Frost don't stock it!
Frost are the EXCLUSIVE Uk stockists as well. You could order it from the states, or maybe ask Frost if they could get you some as a "special".
Couldn't find anything cheaper though - sorry!
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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Crispy Beef
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| posted on 15/12/02 at 06:55 PM |
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Will try giving Frost a call on Monday sometime and see what they can do.
Cheers for the link 
-- Crispy
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paulf
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| posted on 15/12/02 at 10:06 PM |
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I had a tin of Holts yellow engine enamel, it was a bit thin and took many coats to give a good finish on a crossflow head. I used halfords black for
the block and many small parts on the car and it covers easily and gives a good finish.
I dont know if it is still possible to get holts paint as mine was about 20 years
Paul.old.
quote:
Originally posted by Crispy Beef
Found them in a search on Google, they seem to have just about every colour bar yellow :-/
Frost Enamels
Plus they seem a bit expensive too. A friend of mine did his engine in red and got hold of the enamel from Halfords (4.99 a tin), but phoned them and
they don't do yellow.
Cheers.
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Crispy Beef
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| posted on 17/12/02 at 01:58 PM |
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quote:
mine was about 20 years old
Yeah my friends red took three coats for it to look good. I will be using the black I have on various bits. But the bulk needs to be in yellow.
-- Crispy
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Bob da builder
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 posted on 17/12/02 at 02:43 PM |
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Hey m8
try Demon Tweeks, will cost a fortune but it will do the job!!
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Crispy Beef
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| posted on 18/12/02 at 04:27 PM |
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Have now bit the bullet and decided that I'll use aerosols. Just plenty of masking off to do.
In the end I have gone for a yellow from US Automotive (http://www.usauto.co.uk/), they have a range of colours imported from the US, and
the yellow matches pretty much what I want.
And the bargain is each can is only 4.99 or so.
-- Crispy
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