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Hydra Mac 8A (Gehl 2500) restoration... or "Oh No... What have I done?"
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<blockquote data-quote="vinito" data-source="post: 96870" data-attributes="member: 12954"><p>Here's why I mixed my own paint. I went out the other day and bought a handful of yellow spray cans I thought might work. The one I talked about previously I thought would be OK but when I slipped it in, the difference was pretty obvious. In a way, color is a nitpicky, insignificant thing except that you do notice it and it comes off a little hacky, and after all the work I've been doing I'd rather it be as good as possible within reason.</p><p>So here's a pic of the three colors to show what I'm talking about. Lighting makes a big difference and the real comparison is when it's all in the same snapshot, but the montage does look fairly close to reality. What bugged me is the yellow on the left is quite a bit "whiter" than the machine. "It just don't go". My own mix (the axle housing on the right) is <em>much</em> closer.</p><p><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mikeyphoto/media/compy.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/mikeyphoto/compy.jpg" alt=" photo compy.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>By the way, if anybody gets a wild hair and decides to get that or any other Harbor Freight spray gun, it is imperative that before you ever use it, take it all apart and clean their gunky white lube or sealant or whatever it is off first. It's sticky and hard to clean off so I don't know what it's even there for. I cleaned mine off because it was recommended in reviews, and without doing that first I am certain it wouldn't have functioned very well at all. But now it really works a treat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vinito, post: 96870, member: 12954"] Here's why I mixed my own paint. I went out the other day and bought a handful of yellow spray cans I thought might work. The one I talked about previously I thought would be OK but when I slipped it in, the difference was pretty obvious. In a way, color is a nitpicky, insignificant thing except that you do notice it and it comes off a little hacky, and after all the work I've been doing I'd rather it be as good as possible within reason. So here's a pic of the three colors to show what I'm talking about. Lighting makes a big difference and the real comparison is when it's all in the same snapshot, but the montage does look fairly close to reality. What bugged me is the yellow on the left is quite a bit “whiter“ than the machine. “It just don't go“. My own mix (the axle housing on the right) is [I]much[/I] closer. [URL='http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mikeyphoto/media/compy.jpg.html'][IMG alt=" photo compy.jpg"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/mikeyphoto/compy.jpg[/IMG][/URL] By the way, if anybody gets a wild hair and decides to get that or any other Harbor Freight spray gun, it is imperative that before you ever use it, take it all apart and clean their gunky white lube or sealant or whatever it is off first. It's sticky and hard to clean off so I don't know what it's even there for. I cleaned mine off because it was recommended in reviews, and without doing that first I am certain it wouldn't have functioned very well at all. But now it really works a treat. [/QUOTE]
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