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----- Original Message -----
From: Garner, Joseph P. <JPGarner@UCDavis.Edu>
To: MG list (E-mail) <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 12:52 AM
Subject: touch-up paint codes
> Hi everyone.
>
> First of all, thank you to everyone who has been so helpful with the
> questions i have posted over the last few weeks. I'm taking each little
job
> one step at a time, and loving every minute of it. The resounding response
> to my last mail was to check out the springs rather than be fooled by the
> mismatch of the hydraulic units. I have enrolled the help of a friend who
> has the tools for the job, so it looks like replacing the front springs
will
> be the first major DIY project. Actually the second... the first was
sorting
> out all the glitches in the electrics which i did last week (all on my own
> too, i might add!)
>
> well i had a saga today. I've been trying to find touch-up paint for the
> occasional gravel chips on my '79 MGB. The colour is british leyland white
> (AKA ermine white or porcelain white), and the paint codes are
(apparently)
>
> Factory code BLVC 243, NMC/NME/NAF/NCG*
> Ault & Wiborg/ Berger/ Gipgloss 32335, 36133
> ICI FA 78
> PPG/ Ditzler (US) 90106
> Dupont (US) H7896
> Glasso/ Rinshed Mason (US) 9734
>
> I wound up touring every auto shop in town, the last of which told me i
> could make a 20-mile trip to a nearby paint warehouse where they would be
> able to mix me up a quart. (apparently it'll be "useful to have some
spare"
> ! )
>
> So I'm sure that people in the know such as yourselves will have come up
> with a better solution. mail order? web sites? Unless i'm being stupid the
> victoria british catalogue doesn't seem to have paint.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help again!
>
> cheers
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> _________________
>
> Dr. Joseph Garner
> Department of Animal Science,
> University of California,
> One Shields Avenue,
> Davis,
> CA 95616
> USA
>
> tel: + 530 754 5291
> fax: + 530 752 0175
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>
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