Re: IML: IML Paint the Radiator, '58 Southampton

[Mark McDonald <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you have asked them not to paint it already, and they actually 
listen to you and do not paint it, i have one small word of caution:  
don't use too much paint if you do it yourself.

I painted the radiator on my 71 and discovered it took a LOT of paint 
to get it uniformly black.  I then discovered that if you put too much 
paint on it it will gunk up the fins or the blades or whatever the heck 
the thin little strips of metal are called, and interfere with the 
radiator's ability to dissipate heat.  You will also smell burning 
paint for quite awhile when the radiator gets hot.

So my advice to you is, either let them paint it, or go out and buy a 
paint made for radiators and don't use too much.

As for color, I'm guessing black, but whether it is a gloss black or a 
flat black I don't know.  in 71 it seemed to be a matte black.

Mark M

On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 07:55 PM, FltSgt@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Patrick
>
> You will find the shop will have painted it when you go to pick it up.
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