Correct Colours for Odd Items

[mk1]

I thought I'd start this in the hope of getting a good quality list of paint colours for all those odd bits like engines, fans, wheels, jack / tool kits etc. That people always worry about.

Please post you suggestions here.

Engine & Ancilliaries:
BMC Engine Green (Light) - Middle Bronze Green (BS318C - 223)
BMC Engine Green (Dark) - Deep Bronze Green (BS318C - 224)
Fan / Pulley Yellow - Inca Yellow (FAB207 / BLVC 207)

Wheels:
Cream coloured MK1 Wheels - RAL 1015
BMCV Brown Steel wheels (Some spares / some works cars) - RAL3007 "Seal Brown".
Grey Steel Wheels - Dover Grey (Berger 3520, Glasso 26710, ICI 5235)
Silver Steel wheels - ?
Original Minilite Silver - ?

BMC Odments & Accessories:
Jack & wheel Brace (Red) - Ford Sunburst Red

Non BMC Parts & Accessories:
Speedwell Yellow - Inca yellow (FAB207 / BLVC 207)

[coopertim]

I always use Triumph Inca Yellow for my fan and pulley.

Tim

[Dearg1275]

[quote="mk1”]
BMCV Brown Steel wheels (Some spares * some works cars) - Hex #260101 [/quote]

Have you any idea of how this code translates into a paint that you can buy?

D

[111Robin]

Another clue on the wheel colour is Dover Grey, see attached thread

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18585

[mk1]

Have you any idea of how this code translates into a paint that you can buy?

RAL3007.

[geroch]

[quote="mk1”]
BMCV Brown Steel wheels (Some spares * some works cars) - Hex #260101

Have you any idea of how this code translates into a paint that you can buy?

D[/quote][/quote]

it's similar to RAL 3007... but the RAL is not however a good reference scale.

[cheleker]

Make sure to specify that the colours were for Minis made in which countries.

[360gts]

Question on the wiper body for the MK1 cars...are they supposed to black crackle or the hammered silver finish?????????????????

[Gareth Brandt]

Question on the wiper body for the MK1 cars...are they supposed to black crackle or the hammered silver finish?????????????????

They used both silver and crackled black. My 63 countryman has a silver housing(and my Cooper S has the wrong type of hammered silver colour) Didn't know better in 1998

[mk1]

Question on the wiper body for the MK1 cars...are they supposed to black crackle or the hammered silver finish?????????????????

They used both silver and crackled black. My 63 countryman has a silver housing(and my Cooper S has the wrong type of hammered silver colour) Didn't know better in 1998

They were also painted a sort of dark grey hammerite too.

[Gareth Brandt]

Question on the wiper body for the MK1 cars...are they supposed to black crackle or the hammered silver finish?????????????????

They used both silver and crackled black. My 63 countryman has a silver housing(and my Cooper S has the wrong type of hammered silver colour) Didn't know better in 1998

They were also painted a sort of dark grey hammerite too.

Yes you are right, I wrote my 63 has silver housing, but it is more of a silverish/grey hue

[Polarsilver]

Q. For some original 10" Minilite Wheels what Silver should i use.. gloss or matt or hammered finish ?
My Minilites have been repainted Silver probably last painted in the 70,s over what looks to an be a top coat colour of Yellow!
Did they paint Minilite Wheels Yellow at sometime or were Yellow Minilites just a sometime past trendy thing to do?

[111Robin]

Mark the wheel colour is Dover not Dove grey.

dover grey 2 (1) by robin_derrick, on Flickr

20170322_085218 by robin_derrick, on Flickr

[Peter Laidler]

Re Polar silver's minilite querie....., could that yellow you mention be a pale wishy-washy primer specially formulated as a primer AND sealer for aluminiuum? I forget the proper name for it now....... but 'chromate' rings a bell. The Glasurit-Beck training school here in Abingdon painted some magnesium alloys for me in the 80's in a high quality (and expensive too!) aircraft spec silver paint. They primed them in a yellow wishy washy yellow primer.

In respect to the 'real' colour of silver for original wheels, I say forget it based on my experience! During the 80's when I was restoring my S and mini's were still around in the zillions I wanted to get the wheel colour right and used to carry a large wad of silver colour chips just to see what was the nearest 'real' or 'true' colour' No such thing, the varied sooooooo much that all I did eventually was to pick an average!

Is anyone interested in the Glassurit-Beck and the Mid Bronze Green engine paint sequel............?

[nick@dunsdale]

Re Polar silver's minilite querie....., could that yellow you mention be a pale wishy-washy primer specially formulated as a primer AND sealer for aluminiuum? I forget the proper name for it now....... but 'chromate' rings a bell. .?

That would be etch primer it is very wishy washy as it is mixed at 1-1

Most compliant etch primers are now chromate free, zinc tetroxy-chromate the ingredient in chromate primers is not good for the old lungs.

sorry wandering of topic

[Jack of all trades]

Peter, the primer you refer to is called Zinc Chromate primer and is really hard wearing but also highly toxic and very carcinogenic so not really used these days but it protected very well and would last a life time

[mk1]

Mark the wheel colour is Dover not Dove grey.

Having been a member for so long, you should have noticed my slap dash typing skills by now

[Peter Laidler]

If you've ever visited or driven through Dover, you'll know why it's called 'Dover Grey'...... The old ones are always the best!

[geroch]

Fan / Pulley Yellow - Inca Yellow (FAB207)

It is also called by the Rover BLVC 207

[mab01uk]

Fan / Pulley Yellow - Inca Yellow (FAB207)

It is also called by the Rover BLVC 207

Anyone know the correct Red colour to use for a very early 1959 (15th oldest surviving Morris Mini) Fan/Pulley?