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[Healeys] is a do it yourself crackle finish possible?

Subject: [Healeys] is a do it yourself crackle finish possible?
From: richard.ewald at gmail.com (Richard Ewald)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:15:09 -0800
References: <ffidl79b67cfdpd3kgn1mchpurni6dmu7d@4ax.com>
Google wrinkle finish paint, lots of answers
Rick

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Roland Wilhelmy <rwil at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Google has failed me, or else my vocabulary has failed me.  I am
> trying to find a way to refinish my BN1 heater.  It, like almost
> everything serious and electrical in the  50s, was covered with a very
> fine crackle finish.  I would love to be able to re-create that
> finish.
>
> Maybe it isn't called a crackle finish.  All I find under "crackle"
> are 500 ways to painting old wood furniture to reveal another color
> underneath the top coat.  That isn't what crackle means to me.  At one
> time cameras, projectors, elelctrical test equipment and lots of other
> stuff was finished in black crackle.  How do I make that finish come
> alive in 2012?
>
> -Roland
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