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Subject: Re: Striped hoses
From: Peter Macholdt <vze2846b@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:44:56 -0400
Hi Don,

Yes, the pitch is about the same and the stripe and space are also about
1/2" on the smaller hoses. I used some old hoses that a friend loaned me as
models.

The paint that didn't dry was the yellow 1-shot. However, it did dry on some
of the hoses, just not all. Never figured out why. My guess is that they
used different types/amounts of plasticizers in the hoses.

I just remembered, before I did any painting, I wiped the hoses down with
paint thinner and allowed them to dry for several days.

Peter



on 7/22/03 10:29 PM, Don Malling at dmallin@attglobal.net wrote:

> 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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