Thanks for the pictures Dave, I dropped the hint that it would make a welcome Christmas
present, the book you got those out of that is. It looks to me that what may appear as over
spray on the starter is simply reflected light. I’d stake my life on the starter, generator
breather pipe, distributor and horn as being installed after the engine was painted and
them always being painted black. I’ve never seen an original starter with any gray
overspray on it.
Rustoleum has gone thru some major expansion over the last decade. Where they only
offered the one line of “Rustoleum, stops rust” enamel years ago, they now have a dozen
different lines each having a dozen different textures and colors.
I’ve used Rustoleum ever since I was a kid back in the 40’s. My dad and brother were
always dragging home old machinery and restoring it for the shop and the paint of choice
was always Rustoleum Smoke Gray or as it is often referred to, machinery gray or battle
ship gray.
I see now that they have a light and dark gray in their automotive line of acrylic enamels.
I’ll have to see if I can get a sample of the dark gray and compare it to The Filling Station
engine gray which I swear by since I‘ve matched it up to several original Chevrolet
engine parts that still had there paint intact.
Getting back to Homer, I don’t know how much of the Rustoleum product line is
available to Dave up there. I get the impression that Homer is sort of isolated from the
rest of the world?
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
