[Info-vax] what color?

[John Wallace]

On Aug 16, 3:48 pm, starchild <totheedgeoft... at msn.com> wrote:
> Hello
> Anybody know the true colour the VAX 3100/4000 series are? The colour
> looks like a cream white or maybe a little silver gray? The reason I'm
> asking I just got a 3100-80 (no mem/hard drives) and the case has
> markings and dents and I would like to restore to its original
> looking.
> tks

I don't know where you are but here in the UK any decent DIY shop will
mix you any reasonable colour of paint and will colour match a sample
if you take one in. Normally this is for domestic use but maybe the
better ones may be able to do metal paint too?

What may be more of a challenge is the texture, if the paint isn't
normal "flat" finish. There are paints like Hammerite that have a
textured finish but I don't know if they have a custom colour service.

I know it can in principle be done because back in the days when DEC
UK ran a hardware loan service for potential big customers,
exhibitions, etc, stuff that came back off loan with scratches got
repainted with aerosol paint before going out again. I don't think the
aerosols came from the DEC factory.

Good luck anyway.