Lathe Paint???'s

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Long story short, I was cleaning some blood off of my lathe, and used an acetone soaked rag, and without thinking it through, I stripped the paint off on the top of my headstock. So...now I have sanded it even and I have about a 3.5" by 5" bare place on the flat on top of my headstock, I've called Teknatool and they say getting replacement paint would take 'who knows how long' and probably a crapshoot to get it in general. I understand this, but I would like to figure out how to paint this bare spot.

What kind of paint should I be looking for. I've actually considered taking my lathe to a body shop and have the whole thing stripped down and painted a new color--but that seems like overkill--and I'd probably be without my lathe for a couple weeks--so I'd appreciate any feedback on paint/paints I should be using.

Thanks for any feedback/recommendations.
 
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One of my other hobbies is restoring old bicycles. I usually have them sand blasted then go from there.
There are a couple of choices that I would consider.
- If you go the route of stripping it down and starting from scratch, think about having it powder coated the color you want. It's really not that expensive and is much more durable than regular paint
- If you paint it, find an auto body supply house and get some auto paint. You can get it in single stage (color and clear coat in one product) or two stage (color first, clear coat second). Get the clear coat that comes with a hardener. The range of colors is endless so I think you should be able to find one you like. I always spray this one so I can't tell you much about brushing it.

Whichever way you decide I'm pretty sure you'd be happy with it, but I think you might be on to something here....custom colored lathes!
Good luck~
Bob
 
A can of rustoleum works for me. I'm only concerned about stopping rust in areas where I manage to chip the paint, so I don't care too much about colors. But they do have a lot of different colors. If you are really concerned about color match and how pretty your lathe looks, you might need to start using it more to get over that. :biggrin: I like my lathes to look well used (but not abused).

Or you could take a painted piece of the lathe (tailstock?) to a Sherwin Williams store and get them to give you a color matched metal paint. I did that with a chunk of my aluminum fence around my pool and they matched it exactly.

Ed
 
Fish30114 said:
Long story short, I was cleaning some blood off of my lathe, and used an acetone soaked rag, and without thinking it through, I stripped the paint off on the top of my headstock. So...now I have sanded it even and I have about a 3.5" by 5" bare place on the flat on top of my headstock, I've called Teknatool and they say getting replacement paint would take 'who knows how long' and probably a crapshoot to get it in general. I understand this, but I would like to figure out how to paint this bare spot.

What kind of paint should I be looking for. I've actually considered taking my lathe to a body shop and have the whole thing stripped down and painted a new color--but that seems like overkill--and I'd probably be without my lathe for a couple weeks--so I'd appreciate any feedback on paint/paints I should be using.

Thanks for any feedback/recommendations.
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I believe that color is a Krylon silver grey hammered finish, at least that was near a perfect match on my Nova. But that was 8 years ago.

Lin.
 
Thanks for the tips folks, I am not really concerned bout how my lathe looks but it does look funny with the bare spot on the top. It is in fact that Hammerton type color typical of Teknatool lathes. I have seen several custom painted Powermatic lathes though--especially a blue one I liked a lot.

Larry and Rink, there is a bit of a story behind the blood on the lathe, I was fixing a toilet paper holder of all things, and it had a spring type latch that held onto a plate that you mounted to the wall. Well, the spring closed on the end of my index finger, and it took a chunk out of it--well the next thing on the to do list was make a few pens, and this finger just wouldn't quit bleeding--a lot--so after wrapping it up with a shop towel and some electrical tape--the 'shop' bandaid, and starting to set up my lathe, I managed to get a lot of blood all over the place, including all over my lathe.


I am not sure what I want to do about painting my lathe, I have considered taking it to an auto body shop where I know the owner--he's custom painted a couple of my tournament archery bows, and I know it would look killer after he got done with it--and also thought about going the powder coating route--we'll see, I'll probably end up going the match at Sherwin Williams with some metal paint, it weighs 182 lbs. so carrying it around ain't much of an option--me being handicapped and all.

Thanks for the good recommends everybody--Don
 
Don,

If you are going to send it to an auto body shop for paint, then by all means, go for something radical. It's hard to beat a nice glossy black with a wicked flame job, or maybe another hot rod theme, like candy apple red.

And please post pictures.
 
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