Hi Peter,
Is the spiral pitch on the narrow hoses the same as I described for the
wide hoses? The spiral pitch on the small hoses is also 1/2"?
Do you know which of the various paints did not dry?
Don Malling
Peter Macholdt wrote:
> Someone asked me to explain how I made my striped hoses, so here goes.
>
> I started with the green TRF hoses (sorry Don, I know that they are hard to
> get) because they are textured. The first step was painting them black. I
> used the black vinyl paint that Eastwood sells. Next, I got some 1/2" wide
> black electrical tape from Radio Shack and wrapped it around the hose so
> that I had a stripe made of black tape. The nice thing about this tape, is
> that it can stretch a bit and when it does, it gets narrower. If done
> carefully, you can mimic the varying width of the stripe.
>
> Once I had the tape where I wanted it, I used a cheap school bus yellow
> spray paint to spray the whole thing. You only need a light spray and the
> color is not really that important.
>
> Remove the tape carefully (you will probably find that some of the black
> paint comes up with the tape, but not to worry, we will fix that. You now
> have a striped hose in the rough.
>
> The last steps are to hand paint the stripes in the correct color. It will
> take several coats before you have built up enough paint to obscure the
> black underneath. This is the same process that you use to fix the black
> where the tape lifted the paint. These steps are done freehand with no
> masking. If you are steady, you can do a pretty good job.
>
> I used 1-shot Lemon Yellow and Rustoleum(sp) Satin Black for the final
> coats.
>
> Interestingly, some of the hoses dried just fine in a couple of days, others
> took months and never really dried until they spent several more months
> under the hood. This despite using some heavy duty heat lamps to cure the
> paint.
>
> This process is a lot of work and I can't be sure how long the hoses are
> going to last (about 2 years so far). Brian Schlorff at Power British has
> made several sets as mentioned by Kai. Last I heard, he was still testing
> them on Lou DiFabio's TR250. They been on the car since the Fall of 2000, so
> he may now be ready to sell a few sets.
>
> Peter
> '68 TR250
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