Machinery paint

[hswaters]

I am wondering where a person can get the type of paint usually seen on machinery. You know the kind, if it were green paint like on Grizzly machines it has sort of two colors in the paint maybe both green but one darker than the other and a sort of marble like pattern. I am not painting a Grizzly machine but I am wanting to paint a Kwik-Way boring machine. I have it apart cleaning and restoring the damage done by my leaving my machinery untouched in the back of the garage for the past 35 years. The motor seems to have sealed bearings and I may have to replace them. I am going to replace the plastic tubing inside as soon as I find some place that sells 1/4" poly flo tubing and fittings. The cleaning and repainting of my band saw was a success and it has come in handy for the cutting of a few metal parts in the past couple of weeks. The wife thought I had made the band saw as it does look a bit home made but it was made by Olson manufacturing in Grainfield Kansas I think. I cut a lot of metal with it in the 70's.

[EdK]

The finish you are looking for is a hammered finish.

http://www.krylon.com/products/rust-prot...ed-finish/

http://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalog...ered-spray

Ed

[hswaters]

(02-25-2014, 06:22 PM)EdK Wrote: The finish you are looking for is a hammered finish.

http://www.krylon.com/products/rust-prot...ed-finish/

http://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalog...ered-spray

Ed

Thanks Edk. I find that internet searches work better when you know what the folks selling the stuff call it. Nomenclature is the whole thing sometimes and us rednecks don't hardly know none at all. Looks like Rustoleum has the closest to the original green color. Now when I put in hammered finish paint I get results. Not sure if I should bother rebuilding the thing, their is some pitting on the shaft I don't have any cylinders to bore. I discovered the hydraulic cylinder is one that cannot be serviced, made by Bimba, and is not in their catalog. I am sure it says on the side model 099-DX. I took out the cylinder and unplugged the bottom fitting and when I pressed down on the cylinder old thick putrid oil came out like pus from a sore.

[hswaters]

(02-25-2014, 06:50 PM)hswaters Wrote:

(02-25-2014, 06:22 PM)EdK Wrote: The finish you are looking for is a hammered finish.

http://www.krylon.com/products/rust-prot...ed-finish/

http://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalog...ered-spray

Ed

Thanks Edk. I find that internet searches work better when you know what the folks selling the stuff call it. Nomenclature is the whole thing sometimes and us rednecks don't hardly know none at all. Looks like Rustoleum has the closest to the original green color. Now when I put in hammered finish paint I get results. Not sure if I should bother rebuilding the thing, their is some pitting on the shaft I don't have any cylinders to bore. I discovered the hydraulic cylinder is one that cannot be serviced, made by Bimba, and is not in their catalog. I am sure it says on the side model 099-DX. I took out the cylinder and unplugged the bottom fitting and when I pressed down on the cylinder old thick putrid oil came out like pus from a sore.

So I went back to Bimba and using their utility and built a cylinder by inputting the bore, stroke, and mounting style. I get a 099-DX part number for the cylinder. Of course that cylinder is a slightly larger bore than the one I have. I guess they must have changed things a little over the past 35 years.

[stevec]

(02-25-2014, 06:50 PM)hswaters Wrote: I discovered the hydraulic cylinder is one that cannot be serviced, made by Bimba, and is not in their catalog. I am sure it says on the side model 099-DX.

My curiosity led me to believe the 099-DX is a pneumatic cylinder not hydraulic. They are (or were) available in different bores.

Most Bimba cylinders I have experience with are not serviceable.

[hswaters]

(02-26-2014, 07:37 AM)stevec Wrote:

(02-25-2014, 06:50 PM)hswaters Wrote: I discovered the hydraulic cylinder is one that cannot be serviced, made by Bimba, and is not in their catalog. I am sure it says on the side model 099-DX.

My curiosity led me to believe the 099-DX is a pneumatic cylinder not hydraulic. They are (or were) available in different bores.

Most Bimba cylinders I have experience with are not serviceable.

Actually you are correct with the actual use being air over hydraulic. The cylinder actually operates with oil on the bottom and air on the top and the oil reservoir has air pressure on the top. You can see the flow here; http://tinyurl.com/lxns8m6

[stevec]

Oh!

[hswaters]

I finally almost have the machinery paint. It is just my luck that the closest color to original (verde green) is discontinued so after checking a ton of Lowes, Homedepot, WalMart stores near me I figured I was going to use more gas than it would cost to just order the six cans from amazon. They should arrive in a few days and then everything I paint for some time to come will be hammered verde green. Green is ok I guess, more of a red kind of guy though.