Paint

Post by **martylemoo** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:12 pm

Hi,
Just getting back to do the morris after taking time out to rebuild the crashed bike

I have been quoted anything upto £60 per litre for cellulose paint. I know london minors are doing an offer of 5 ltrs for £100 but they refuse to ship it to me, so does anyone know of a company that will ship paint for reasonable prices.
Cheers
Martyn

Post by **Kevin** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:34 am

If you fill out you location someone may know of a local source for you.

Post by **Vernon** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 9:26 am

I have had paint shipped by Leonard Brooks (Harlow) Ltd. Tel. 01279 417501. They will match paint to your glove box lid if you send it to them.

Post by **les** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 9:42 pm

I have been quoted anything upto £60 per litre for cellulose paint.

Who gave you the £60 quote? That's mind blowing! Where r u!

Post by **martylemoo** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:54 pm

the £60 quote was from Marghams stores in Newport Isle of Wight, i am on the island but will travel to anywhere in the south for a decent price.
cheers
Martyn

Post by **Kevin** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 12:02 am

Have you asked someone in the isle of wight branch where to buy the paint from locally.

Post by **les** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:35 pm

Scotts of Sidcup Kent can supply, but not sure about shipping. Can dig out the phone number if needed, but I suspect it's to far away from you, especially if you needed to collect.

Post by **britab1967** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:10 pm

While on the subject of paint....

It'll be a while before I'm up to the point of re-spraying but..... how much paint and thinners whill it take to do a total re-spray on a traveller.

I'm planning to do the spraying before I put the wings and the rear section back on and I'm changing the colour so I'll do the inside at the same time.

Any suggestions?

Post by **les** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:34 pm

If it's any help, I used a total of 7.5 litres of top coat on a Pick-up. That's everything inside and out. One thing I would say, and it's this; buy it all at the same time, I underestimated the amount originally and the second batch was a different shade. Believe me, spoils a lot of hard work. I intend to buy 10 litres next time.

Post by **britab1967** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:26 pm

Cheers Les, that sounds like an awfull lot of paint, but I suppose 8 coats of paint will take a bit.

Thanks again

Post by **les** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:33 pm

I don't know about 8 coats, but by the time you've done every nook and cranny it's suprising where it goes. I mentioned 10 litres to be sure of having enough, because of reasons previously mentioned, it's also nice to have some left for touching up.

Post by **phil63** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:47 pm

Well I paid about £10 a litre , over the counter in Telford a few weeks ago
Phil

Post by **Kevin** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:55 pm

Thats a good price Phil one of our branch members just paid £16 a litre.

Post by **phil63** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:40 am

The Telford supplier is ... Autopaint Supplies , Unit13a-B Hadley Park Ind.Est. Hadley Telford 01952 641774. But I don't think they do by post .
Hope this is useful
Phil

Post by **iwsmithy** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:15 pm

Hi Martyn,
Have you tried Autopaint supplies at Little London in Newport. Theya re a lot more reasonable than Margams. Margams don't even mix up cellulose any more!

Post by **Willie** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:00 am

Scotts of Sidcup have just mixed me a litre of colour matched
'lacquer' (apparently they are not allowed to call it cellulose any
more)!! , and charged me £20 which I thought was very reasonable.
Always buy enough to leave some over for puttting into one of
those little tins with a brush built it for touching up the inevitable
chips and dings. If you have enough left over then you can have
it put in to small spray cans.