Original paint specs

[Mark M]

Maybe a question for Tom Wilson:   Were our cars originally painted in Lacquer or Enamel?   This should be interesting!   ~Mark TC8126  Sunny Ohio                

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[Roger Furneaux]

hi Mark - whatever you call it on your side of the pond, we originally used Cellulose...there must be a paint technologist among us for a deeper explanation! RogerTC0978

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[Frank Graham]

#ygrps-yiv-913503133 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} Roger, I believe we called it Nitrocellulose lacquer or more commonly just plain lacquer over here. [b]From:[/b] mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of Roger Furneaux roger.46tc@gmail.com [mg-tabc] mg-tabc-noreply@yahoogroups.com> [b]Sent:[/b] Wednesday, May 22, 2019 2:06 PM [b]To:[/b] Mark M [b]Cc:[/b] MGTABC GROUP [b]Subject:[/b] Re: [mg-tabc] Original paint specs    

hi Mark - whatever you call it on your side of the pond, we originally used Cellulose...there must be a paint technologist among us for a deeper explanation! Roger TC0978 On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:17 PM 'Mark M' tc8126@earthlink.net [mg-tabc] mg-tabc-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Maybe a question for Tom Wilson:   Were our cars originally painted in Lacquer or Enamel?   This should be interesting!   ~Mark TC8126  Sunny Ohio                 . [img]http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/gr ... c2=2/nc3=3[/img] [img]http://y.analytics.yahoo.com/fpc.pl?ywa ... IC&cf12=CP[/img]

[motionwear]

Results from 'Type of Original Paint on a TC" test:

TC5147, was disassembled about 1953 after being rolled in a hill climb in Ohio.  Body parts all stored indoors, original color (green) still there with a thin layer of gray primer underneath. Enamel:  Front and rear wings, front splash apron, spare tire carrier.

Nitrocellulose:  Doors (there is no tub to test, only the doors remain) The battery box lid (the MG press shop green) is nitrocellulose.

Also tested a late TC footramp Doug Pelton recently sent me.  It was originally body color green, with a later coating of black on some of it.  This paint was nitrocellulose.  Remember the late TCs all had body color bulkheads. Tom Wilson