Paint for Fabers

[race890]

My shop sprays routinely silver paint over the test stamp after hydro. A few dives after it's first hydro, it started to show tiny amounts of rust in the stamping, so I cleaned it up a little, masked around it, and sprayed a couple of coats of cold gal, followed by a couple of bright silvagal topcoat. I now do this after every hydro. I also spray white over the old one. Looks nice, no rust, and makes it easy to find the current test stamp... I have plenty of scuff marks on the cylinders, but none than run rusty.

Thanks for your great tips on touching up Faber cylinders. Do you know what the exact colour code is for the white paint that matches the white colour on Faber cylinders?

 

[OMyMyOHellYes]

Leaving it bare steel is better? I would have thought it ok to do for bare Aluminium, but not steel.

I was thinking AL before I clicked the. button. No coffee yet this morning. It's made, just haven't gotten a cup yet.

 

[happy-diver]

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As I said they are not looking pretty. I rather have them look like that 5 years after I repaint them, but not to continue to have them get worse and worse.

You're asking about your paint and yet you leave the plastic on your stainless, now that's ugly

Peel off the plastic and get your creme cleanser onto the paint and they will come up schmick

Schmicker than schmick!

 

[Scared Silly]

Thanks for your great tips on touching up Faber cylinders. Do you know what the exact colour code is for the white paint that matches the white colour on Faber cylinders?

I use "Appliance White" which is close enough may not be quite as glossy for some.

 

[Jared0425]

You're asking about your paint and yet you leave the plastic on your stainless, now that's ugly

Peel off the plastic and get your creme cleanser onto the paint and they will come up schmick

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Schmicker than schmick!

You replied to a thread I did over a decade ago . I did not repaint them after being advised not to do so by both the dive shop and hydro place. Cold dip galvanized paint needs to be baked on.