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RE: Canned Spray Paint

To: "'MGs'" <MGS@AUTOX.TEAM.NET>
Subject: RE: Canned Spray Paint
From: "Palmer, Lew (UCI)" <Lew.Palmer@uci.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 09:19:00 PST
I am so pleased with the results that I'm wondering if the whole car   
could
be done with spray cans. Since its not a unibody, it will knock down to
 fairly manageable pieces. Would this be a big mistake? How about just
 for the primer? Anybody out there ever try this?

Bob - A friend of mine (Peter Zorn from Florida) has done his whole TC   
with nothing more than Krylon spray paint, straight from the can. The   
paint in the spray cans carries much less pigment relative to the   
solvents than regular "mix it yourself" paint. Nonetheless, his is a   
credible job and he claims it is simple to do touch up in the event of a   
scratch or nick. However, Peter is a commercial artist, so has the talent   
to do a good job regardless of the medium.

My advice is try it. If it doesn't work out, the investment is minimal.

On a totally unrelated matter, is it possible to attach pictures to these
e-mails (like jpegs)? For those with access to scanners, it would be very
convenient for illustrating how some gizmo on the car goes together. A   
picture
is worth a thousand words. Of course pictures are big memory (and   
bandwidth)
hogs. It may not be appropriate to post something that  big on the   
mailing
list.

Yes, but it depends on your mail system. There are two primary methods of   
encoding binary attachments - MIME or UUENCODE - to Internet mail. Both   
are acceptable, but MIME is the preferred. MIME attachments are much   
smaller but are not universally handled by all mail systems.

Regards,
Lew Palmer
lew.palmer@uci.com
Bob Donahue  " 50s FOREVER "
rdonahue@holli.com
1953 MG-TD under restoration
1971 MGB
   




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