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Nick
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| silverfoxsteam wrote: | | Spokesmann wrote: | | Make sure you varnish that decal Stephen, great job you have done. If you want to go a stage further, Bowman cylinders oin engines suchas the M158 and M167 had their cylinders painted green like their bases. |
Decal's varnished as per your recommendation Mike.
I was wondering what the 'discolouration' was that I found on the cylinder, it was traces of the old paint! Thanks for pointing that out. |
Very nice restoration. 
Were the cylinders ever painted black?
I have an original M167 with a few traces of black paint. |
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Spokesmann
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Nick wrote: | | silverfoxsteam wrote: | | Spokesmann wrote: | | Make sure you varnish that decal Stephen, great job you have done. If you want to go a stage further, Bowman cylinders oin engines suchas the M158 and M167 had their cylinders painted green like their bases. |
Decal's varnished as per your recommendation Mike.
I was wondering what the 'discolouration' was that I found on the cylinder, it was traces of the old paint! Thanks for pointing that out. |
Very nice restoration.
Were the cylinders ever painted black?
I have an original M167 with a few traces of black paint. |
They were very dark green.
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8_10 Brass Cleaner
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice, looks like it had some serious corrosion.
The Plasticote BBQ paint is super stuff, I used it on the firebox on my SE1 resto. |
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Nick
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Spokesmann wrote: | | Nick wrote: | | silverfoxsteam wrote: | | Spokesmann wrote: | | Make sure you varnish that decal Stephen, great job you have done. If you want to go a stage further, Bowman cylinders oin engines suchas the M158 and M167 had their cylinders painted green like their bases. |
Decal's varnished as per your recommendation Mike.
I was wondering what the 'discolouration' was that I found on the cylinder, it was traces of the old paint! Thanks for pointing that out. |
Very nice restoration.
Were the cylinders ever painted black?
I have an original M167 with a few traces of black paint. |
They were very dark green. |
Here ya go Mike, as far as I know, these are both original. The green cylinder on top is off my Bowman 410 and the black one is of my M167:
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Spokesmann
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:12 am Post subject: |
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Good pic Nick, I was going to say the green paint may have become burnt, but that definately looks black! I ws going add that maybe loco cylinders were black...
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John Chapman
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:43 am Post subject: |
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Brilliant job Stephen.
| Nick wrote: | | Were the cylinders ever painted black? I have an original M167 with a few traces of black paint. |
As far as I have discovered; black and two shades of green - the lighter shade being found on the later M175 and M180 engines.
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Spokesmann
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:43 am Post subject: |
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Thanks John! Useful to know.
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silverfoxsteam
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| 8_10 Brass Cleaner wrote: | | Very nice, looks like it had some serious corrosion. |
Indeed there was - at one point I thought about using filler on the base and parts of the firebox, but that would've just hidden it's carelessly neglected history - what we're left with is 'character'!
Thanks for all the kind remarks chaps - I'm really quite taken aback!
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