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Re: Gas detection paint

I've got a tin of the late war green gas paint...I prefer the 'mustard' coloured one though and have used that so far....Ian

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Re: Gas detection paint

I had a tin of the wartime US gas detection paint. It took quite a bit of stirring, but it eventually mixed up just fine. I used it to paint the upper headlights on the two M20s I owned, and the inner area around the "invasion star" on my WW2 Jeep.(As seen in color photos taken at the time of D-Day) The star emblem had been sprayed onto the O.D paint of the hood using a stencil, using plain flat white Rustoleum paint. I found that if I touched the white paint with the gas paint, it turned a bright pink! I ended up having to paint the whole hood again, being very careful to stay away from the white paint of the star emblem.

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Re: Gas detection paint

Sipke Bathoorn
What should be the correct late war collorcode?
I have found RAL1040 or RAL8001 close to the original color.
But what should be the correct color?
The green stuff is American, not sure if ever used on British bikes.

Sipke, neither of your 2 RAL colours are close, maybe if you mix the 2? I had some mixed from my original sample, and it's quite good.

But over time the colour would have faded by sunlight, so don't think it matters that much.

My 2p.

Lex

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