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Looking for Powermatic paint
I am trying to clean up a PM60 jointer (as many of you may know and be sick of hearing about :eek: ) Powermatic sell spray paint for the current gold, but nothing for the older gold that mine is. I could I guess respray the whole base the new color, but I'm wondering if there is a better way. I found this as a possible solution:
Powermatic:
Steve Musial has been at it again. Here is a dead match for Powermatic Green, again from Porter Paints:
Porter Paints Pro-Master 2000 Oil Satin
124 Ultra Deep Base
20C
12E
2YS(or 5)
26V
It has also been reported that Pittsburgh Paints "Vista Green" is an excellent match for the OLD Powermatic green.
Do they call the color of my jointer Powermatic Green?
Paint it GOLD, not MUSTARD!
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Originally Posted by
Tim Morton
...Powermatic sell spray paint for the current gold, [read: mustard] but nothing for the older gold that mine is. [read: metallic gold] I could I guess respray the whole base the new color, but I'm wondering if there is a better way?
...Do they call the color of my jointer Powermatic Green? ...
Tim, your PM60 jointer is '80s metallic gold--neither of the two greens PM used previous to yours.
And, yes, there HAS to be a better way! I denote the change from PM metallic gold in the '80s, to the mustard yellow of the '90s until present, as the beginning of the end of Made-in-USA Powermatic machines, when the complete PM line died; replaced by Chinese imports.
Although my '98 PM66 TS operates perfectly, it is indeed, mustard yellow. It is the last of the last "good ones," for by the early 2000's there were increasing reports of problems with PM quality.
Mustard is great on hotdogs; NOT on an original '80s PM60 jointer. Perservere in your quest for that "Cadillac Gold." Accept no substitutes!
~Chip~