Re: Paint Tint Color, Andalusite Blue # 121

Posted by Marith McCoul on February 20, 1997 at 10:57:22

In Reply to: Paint Tint Color, Andalusite Blue # 121
posted by Gary Hines on February 20, 1997 at 01:11:47

There are two problems with Ditzler.You're not going to want
to hear this.The first is that formulas change over the
years and the laquer paint you get now is fairly dissimilar
to the laquer paint for which those codes were developed (a
long, long time ago).The second problem is the paint store
mixing process.If your paint dealer is like mine, he turns
the mixing color machine off unless he's using it.This allows
the pigments to seperate and settle out.Then when someone
wants a custom mix, he turns the machines on for about a minute
and off he goes, to mix the color with mix colors that are
incompletely re-constituted.For that reason, you get weird
stuff no matter what you order.(you should see him wreck the
new 1990's greens).Back before we gave up on the formula mix,
we used to get every color of the rainbow when we ordered Ford
maroon.
In order to get something exactly right (using codes), the mix color machine would have to run all day, all of the
time.For that reason, we insist that they mix each batch
we order off the original chip and NOT use the codes.We do
prefer the MAFCA/MARC chip book for this - not the Ditzler
book.

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