In the old days, I used to work for a company that made hard disk
subsystems for the mac. When Apple changed to the "Platinum" color
scheme, they sent out a paint sample with a pantone color #. Someone
MUST know what it is...
Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Rachor [mailto:george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 1:53 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Painting Macs (was: fake NeXT)
>
>
> Any idea how we might find the original paint color to
> restore a faded Mac
> or other Apple product to new condition?
>
> George
>
> =========================================================
> George L. Rachor george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com
> Beaverton, Oregon http://racsys.rt.rain.com
>
> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Rax wrote:
>
> > >>If I ever get the time, I want to do a custom paint job
> on my SE/30.
> > >>Remember the fighter planes of WW2 that had the
> mouth/teeth/eyes painted on
> > >>the nose? You get the picture... :)
> > >
> > >I've been tempted to do that too. :-) What kind of paint
> would be best
> > >for this? And how would you go about cleaning the unit
> before hand?
> > >
> > >Tom Owad
> > >
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> >
> >
> > My ex-girlfriend painted her Mac metalflake purple. She got
> the paint from
> > a model shop - it's the stuff they use for painting plastic
> models. I
> > thought it would fuck everything up when she spray-painted
> the keyboard,
> > but it didn't seem to do it any harm. Worked fine, but it certainly
> > challenged one's touch-typing skills...
> >
> > R.
> >
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Received on Tue Jul 14 1998 - 12:57:50 BST