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Seat frame colour
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 9:38 am
by Gromit
I have to order some new seat covers for my '65 Dormobile and when I do I'll get the seat frames stripped and re-paint them.
The original colour 'looks' like 50 year old, dirty, white. Was it white, off white, cream ??
I'm not after 100% originality but I'll get a cost for powder coating and I'm sure the available colours will be restricted anyway.
Colin
Re: Seat frame colour
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:21 pm
by Jabbawocky
HI Grommet
I'm would say it is cream, but all the seats I have seen have been 50 years old.
Cheers Mick
Re: Seat frame colour
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:42 am
by Gromit
Jabbawocky wrote:HI Grommet
I'm would say it is cream, but all the seats I have seen have been 50 years old.
Cheers Mick
Thanks Mick,
I saw a picture somewhere where someone had refurbished the seats and they were very white, cream seems a bit more appropriate.
Colin
Re: Seat frame colour
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 7:50 am
by Marque
I am in the process of doing my frames for 1967 Dormi. Seat frames were cream / white from what remains. PO covered them in black presumably to modernise them. I have repainted (Strip > Bilt Hamber Deoxy C gel, Bilt Hamber Epoxy Mastic > Rustoelum Ivory Bisque). Interesting to note that this leaves a paint finish of a few mm. As the seats move this is then scraped off.
How is that overcome? How can a surface that is physically scrapping other surfaces be prevented from corroding? Grease? Thinner paint surface coating?
Thoughts welcome.
Kindest regards
Mark