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02-18-2009, 12:11 AM
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Re: Package tray touch up or repaint
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Verne, I'd be afraid to sand the cardboard. I think you'd end up with a suede finish. These panels are pressed paper and their smooth finish comes from the rollers they are fed through. I seriously doubt if you could ever reproduce the smooth finish again without soaking the surface and running it through a pressurized roller system again. (But I've been wrong before.  )Has anyone tried painting them with different stages of gloss? Mine appears to be somewhere between a satin and semi-gloss finish. [/ QUOTE ] I'm sure it would be difficult, if not impossible. For all we know, the supplier might have painted sheets with a roller before die-cutting them out. I agree that the original finish (paint or dye) had virtually no gloss to it at all. Just a slight sheen. Maybe a top coat with very low gloss paint & lots of thinner to blend it in might work? I'm going to have to try something on the blue package tray in my '62.......or just leave it original (faded). Verne 
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02-18-2009, 12:16 AM
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Re: Package tray touch up or repaint
I tried some leather dye on a spot on my Nova. That didn't match either. It covered the light area (black interior), but not the same finish as the rest of the panel.
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02-18-2009, 12:58 AM
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Re: Package tray touch up or repaint
I covered mine with some 70's vintage shag rug, added a pair of Craig wedge shaped speakers and then finished it off with an "Official: Ken Tibor Bobblehead Doll".
It looks awesome....  wilma 
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02-18-2009, 01:09 AM
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Re: Package tray touch up or repaint
Remember the fluffy white kitty with the red blinking eyes JC Whitney sold? I think they called him(her) Blinky.
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02-18-2009, 01:16 AM
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Re: Package tray touch up or repaint
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I covered mine with some 70's vintage shag rug, added a pair of Craig wedge shaped speakers and then finished it off with an "Official: Ken Tibor Bobblehead Doll". It looks awesome.... wilma [/ QUOTE ]  Did you vacuum the seeds 'n stems out of the carpet first?  
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02-18-2009, 01:23 AM
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Re: Package tray touch up or repaint
Sorry, I was drug free then and now....I got high on life
 Now I use bourbon  
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02-18-2009, 06:08 AM
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Re: Package tray touch up or repaint
touching up a scratch for sure does not work stands out as bad as the scratch...I have tried dozens of rattle cans..cheap ones to custom mixed ones...my next attack was going to be something from Wesco auto body supply and reduce the crap out of it...the rattle cans lay way to much material down. I dont have any old ones to test on, forgot to save a few out of the beaters I parted out.
Joe is right a repop is better than a rattle canned original at this point. peace,B.
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