Thread Number: 39575
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Aluminum Half Hump Power Nozzle |
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Post# 419756   2/9/2020 at 21:14 (1,508 days old) by rodknock95 (Salem, Missouri)   |   | |
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I tried polishing one of these that were originally painted silver for a Silverado
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Post# 419759 , Reply# 1   2/9/2020 at 22:46 (1,508 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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If that's your finished product, then congratulations are in order. You did an excellent job. Seriously, it's not easy to get the paint off of one of those.
I set out to do that to one of mine a couple of years ago but I eventually up and repainted it with Rust-Oleum hammer tone metallic paint and primer in one. The 'black' color is actually sort of a gunmetal gray, a little darker than the original Silverado gray but very acceptable. There's also a bronze color that should look pretty nice for an Olympia brown nozzle. The textured finish makes it absolutely the most forgiving spray paint I've ever used. Just for good measure, I masked off the raised nameplate area, which was the only part I had managed to put any degree of shine on. The end result was very pleasing, although far from what I had originally intended. It's a subtle custom that could almost pass for original in that it looks like something that Electrolux might have (and perhaps should have) done.
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Post# 419769 , Reply# 2   2/10/2020 at 08:29 (1,508 days old) by Vac-o-matic (Saint Louis, Mo.)   |   | |
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Both of those look great! |
Post# 419816 , Reply# 3   2/10/2020 at 17:04 (1,508 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)   |   | |
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Post# 419828 , Reply# 4   2/10/2020 at 22:22 (1,507 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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