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I have been coating a steel plate with white latex paint. Has anyone got a better method?
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White oil based paint mixed with oil, like motor oil or hydraulic oil. Doesn't dry out so bad.
SRH
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I used a similar concoction for while, white lithium grease with white pigment/colorant from the paint store. Worked fairly well, but eventually got crusty/dried up from the high winds and dust in West Texas. So I got a great deal one time on ebay for 36 1 lb tubs of Castrol wheel bearing grease in dark amber. While not as easy to see the pattern from a distance as the white stuff, I still have to walk back to the patterning board to "clear" it, and then the pattern is plainly visible a couple feet away. When it gets crusty after a couple months, it's just scraped off and new grease applied.
Mike
Tolerance: the abolition of absolutes
Consistency is the currency of credibility
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left over political signs with wire frames...
we have thousands of them up here in nh in early nov...
and they can be recycled using newspaper and clothes pins...
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Grease sounds like a possibility. Also oil based paint with motor oil. I need something that will last for a while. Thanks for all of the suggestions.
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About a cup of titanium dioxide mixed with six or so cups of canola oil.
Socialism is almost the worst.
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I keep an empty 5 gallon plastic hydraulic oil bucket at the pattern plate with the paint and oil mixture in it. The roller stays inside it, too. The lid will snap back in place to keep it sealed up tight enough that it lasts for a long time without any attention. If I haven't used the plate for a few months I can just pop the lid off, stir the mix a bit with the roller, and roll a fresh coat on in a jiffy.
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After decades of struggling with grease, oil, paint, steel plates, and whatever, we have gone back to square one. We built a heavy duty galvanized frame with heavy duty wire squares between, mounted on steel posts. The wire squares give us an infinite number of places to clip clothes pins or whatever. Bring your own paper. I am contemplating stealing a roll of 40" butcher paper from the front of Home Depot, or maybe just wrapping everything I buy from them in a nice 40X40 sheet of the stuff.
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Sidelock
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After decades of struggling with grease, oil, paint, steel plates, and whatever, we have gone back to square one. We built a heavy duty galvanized frame with heavy duty wire squares between, mounted on steel posts. The wire squares give us an infinite number of places to clip clothes pins or whatever. Bring your own paper. I am contemplating stealing a roll of 40" butcher paper from the front of Home Depot, or maybe just wrapping everything I buy from them in a nice 40X40 sheet of the stuff. What this guy said, except the stealing part. If you are close to a large commercial printshop, that has half or full web presses, “web ends”, the paper/chip ends that protect the rolls of web paper in transit can often be procured for nothing, if you ask politely. I used them for years, until my gun club built a box with a hinged lid that held a roll of paper under the patterning frame, and I didn’t have to bring my own anymore. Best, Ted
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To each his own, but after a lifetime of shooting paper patterns, and trying to store certain ones for future reference, I'll never go back to it. I can snap pics of the patterns on my plate, with my cell phone, and transfer them to the computer where I can instantly reference them.
Of course, either method is better than not patterning at all.
SRH
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