Warco green paint

Dear old Warco used to sell pots of their paint for when your machine got the chips, now they only have aerosol cans. Glum face.

Paragon have "Warco Machine Green" in pots starting at 500ml. I was reaching for my plastic but then they asked, "Gloss, Semi-gloss, Satin or Matt?"

Oy vey, see how they complicate my life. I would guess Semi-gloss, but does anyone have actual experience?

The two little pots that came with my lathe had the RAL codes written on them. If I had made a note of those, getting a suitable paint(two-pack car paint for preference) would be quick, easy and cheap.

I have small tin of green that was too dark for a 280V lathe and a aerosol i purchased for my GH600.

Neither are a match for my WM16B mill !!

Brian

I took the small swinging spindle cover off my WM250 and went to B&Q and got them to colour match some gloss paint. Worked a treat, think it was Dulux.

John

I'll just live with the chips and scratches.

Will have a look later and see if my unused tins have any numbers on them.

Paint matching in Dulux? No need to worry about mixing cellulose and enamel, bung it on with a distemper brush, I am so tempted. I have an old Warco Major I painted in Hammerite smooth, now crying out for a good splosh of emulsion. If only I had your devil-may-care liberated mindset. I blame my parents

I don't actually have trouble finding Warco Machine Green paint, in fact my problem is having too much choice. Gloss, Semi-gloss, Satin or Matt?

If it's the same shade they used a few years ago the RAL number is 6011 and it's called Reseda green , the same colour was used on quite a few makes of machine including Boxford lathes, Condor mills, quite easily available.

I've always used semi gloss for repainting and touching in machinery, seems easier to blend in, gloss seems to stand out too much. The Paragon I bought was a very good match, but obviously there may be slight colour differences between machine batches.

Dave

Edited By Dave Wootton on 05/06/2022 13:26:20

Depends what you are painting, quite a few people paint cabinets, stands, draws etc to match or complement their machines and you don't need machine enamel for that. Says he with yellow draws to go with the yellow bits on his lathe.

Reseda Green eh!

Nearly a tenner cheaper and none of your gloss, satin matt gobbledegook either.

Much appreciated, I'll give it a go

Worked all right for me and quite happily sticks to cellulose that is on the machine. Only drawback is I still have a lot left. I can pour some into an envelope and post it to you!

John

8 YEAR PROTECTION... Blimey John, shame Warco didn't know about this stuff before they painted my machines

I don't think they make envelopes big enough and why have you got cellulose instead of enamel?

However I am still sorely tempted to take you up on this most generous envelope offer, it's the monkey in me, little blighter has to stick his nose into everything and take a jolly good sniff. It'll be the end of him one day but what can you do?

Can't resist mentioning a Myford repaint job that I've seen - Maroon!

Not done by me.

Not saying who owner is.

Think that if I was buying it, I would have demanded a whopping price reduction.

My Warco spare paint cans are unmarked apart from a dab showing the colour on the lid. No clues there.

Small cans too, about half a cupful, and judging by the weight less than half full. So far the paint on the machines has lasted well. No doubt by the time I need it, the spare paint will be well out of date.

Much to be said in favour of being a Slack Alice who doesn't care about paint and polish. I claim 'a tidy workshop is the sign of a sick mind'.

Dave

Smith and Allen do RAL 6011 in enamel, both in aerosols & tins, 1 & 5 ltr. I used them for the primer, undercoat & top coat for my Denham Junior lathe and found the paint to be very good and chip resistant.

My twopennith worth as a customer

Roger

If you are 'touching up chips' and want to brush it on all you have to do is spray a bit into a tin lid and dip the brush in that. However the OPs problem might be painting the shed to match and the cost of spray cans might be a bit high. Mmmm matching green shed and machinery inside and out might be interesting

I often wondered why I was getting such poor results on some jobs, but now I think it must be due to the many chips on my lathe !

Strange how little things like that can have such an effect.

When I was selling to the auto refinishing trade, many years ago we were asked to supply touch ups to a major car distributor where they were not available in this country. We won the order on the basis that we split a litre of paint between 5, not 4, 250ml tins and adding a splash of brushing thinners. A dab on the tin lid and that was it - basically a 25% profit from the start!

In the Midlands Jawel Paints have always given me excellent service for auto and RAL paints and similar.

Another excellent paint supplier is Sayers in Northampton Paint Matching They mixed up paint for my car after several others said they could not do it. The paint was a special one year only release. I had it made up in spray cans (£13-50 for 400ml) to test the colour match of both shades. It was as perfect as my eyes could detect. They can do it paint cans 5ltr down to 250ml. No minimum order I believe. Very friendly & helpful staff on the trade counter. They have a spectrograph ? to match the paint and can work on samples through the post as well.

regards

Update: Got a 30ml sample of Resenda green and it's not right

Think I will try the Pinnacle Warco in semi-gloss then report back