In a message dated 8/21/2005 6:57:49 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
terryrs@adelphia.net writes:
I'll call TRF to make sure
this is standard practice, but if so, is there a way to turn a brown knob
black...besides tossing it in the family weenie roast fire?
The following was just posted on the MGB list.
Dear List,
When you do your vintage car "make-over" what do you do with your
knobs? Switches? Handles etc? You may have seen an item or 2 on the
MG-TABC list in the recent past relating to a Black Hard Rubber
(or soft rubber too) Dye that I had developed for my "other hobby",
vintage fountain pen restoration. Some local TC and MMM car folks
who heard about the pen dye asked me for some of it and have used
it successfully to re-blacken their faded browned-out switches and
knobs and brake handles. At the encouragement of Rick Storms,
Terry Sanders and a few others, I have re-formulated the
Pensbury Manor Black Hard Rubber Pen Potion No. 9 (PMBHRPPNo9) for
use in vintage car restoration under the new trade name
"GREAT KNOBS!" In order to boost my GREAT KNOBS!, I am putting up a
new GREAT KNOBS! web page at pensburymanor.com in the next week or
so with links to permit folks to order it under that name. In the
meantime, folks who are interested can send me an email, or go to
the Black Hard Rubber Dye page at www.pensburymanor.com website to
order (just be sure to say "I want GREAT KNOBS!" so I will know
which bottle to send you).
TCSYD
Robert B. Houston
Texan in New Mexico
63 TR4
73 MG Midget
94 F150
03 Beetle
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is
to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
---Alexander Hamilton
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