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I was told by a co-worker of Ray's that this paint process was used for years to "blackout" the area behind the grille.
Jim Krausmann
Detroit
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Someone on the list was asking about this last week. Marv Raguse was nice enough to send it again. Here it is. John Paxos
In a message dated 3/8/2005 6:18:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, MJRAGUSE writes:
The Equasheen process
Much discussion has occurred over the past few months on the process used for trunk interior colors as well as hood inners. Dave Stragand first provided me his understanding based on a conversation with an ex Chrysler employee. Apparently Dave learned that old paint was saved and salvaged by mixing various colors together and using it for inner panel painting. I have to admit that at the time I was very skeptical of this method since it seem to be too variable to ever be agreed upon by either Manufacturing or Engineering. Remem!
ber that I work to standards today and even imagining the way things might have been caused me to doubt it.
Well, I called Mr. Ray Schaeffer who worked in the paint department of Chrysler for 40 years and asked him to describe the process for painting the inside panels of the Plymouths at Lynch Road. He said he could recall 1955 and 1956 and we assume that 57 was the same.
Apparently a reclamation process existed that would capture the paint !
left in residue in the water. This was conducted not only at the
assembly plant but also at the Prototype Paint Facility at Highland Park. The reclaimed paint pigment would exist in a semi solid mass. It would be processed in a steel ball mill or grinding operation with the occasional addition of primer. The results would be of various colors but they would add black to ensure it was a dark shade. This paint was called Equasheen according to Ray but he can't recall the exact spelling so we spelled it phonetically. The man who ground and prepared this Equasheen was Jack Greig.
Ray also mentioned that speckled water base paint was also used. I think this might have been later; perhaps for 1959
The application of this Equasheen to the cars occurred from one of 4 pits with a painter doing the under side of the vehicle and then climbing out to do the trunk on the next vehicle. Apparently they would alternate in this fashion. Ray remembers the one time he stopped the line over a quality issue with how it was being applied. Being quite young at the time he incurred the wrath of the foreman who threatened him with his job but Ray stood his ground and eventually retired.
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- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:18:21 EST
John, I found it!
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The Equasheen process
Much discussion has occurred over the past few months on the process used for trunk interior colors as well as hood inners. Dave Stragand first provided me his understanding based on a conversation with an ex Chrysler employee. Apparently Dave learned that old paint was saved and salvaged by mixing various colors together and using it for inner panel painting. I have to admit that at the time I was very skeptical of this method since it seem to be too variable to ever be agreed upon by either Manufacturing or Engineering. Remember that I work to standards today and even imagining the way things might have been caused me to doubt it.
Well, I called Mr. Ray Schaeffer who worked in the paint department of Chrysler for 40 years and asked him to describe the process for painting the inside panels of the Plymouths at Lynch Road. He said he could recall 1955 and 1956 and we assume that 57 was the same.
Apparently a reclamation process existed that would capture the paint left in residue in the water. This was conducted not only at the assembly plant but also at the Prototype Paint Facility at Highland Park. The reclaimed paint pigment would exist in a semi solid mass. It would be processed in a steel ball mill or grinding operation with the occasional addition of primer. The results would be of various colors but they would add black to ensure it was a dark shade. This paint was called Equasheen according to Ray but he can't recall the exact spelling so we spelled it phonetically. The man who ground and prepared this Equasheen was Jack Greig.
Ray also mentioned that speckled water base paint was also used. I think this might have been later; perhaps for 1959
The application of this Equasheen to the cars occurred from one of 4 pits with a painter doing the under side of the vehicle and then climbing out to do the trunk on the next vehicle. Apparently they would alternate in this fashion. Ray remembers the one time he stopped the line over a quality issue with how it was being applied. Being quite young at the time he incurred the wrath of the foreman who threatened him with his job but Ray stood his ground and eventually retired.
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