| Author | Message | ||
     Jackbequick |
I ordered the Blue Streak DBC 19038 (as listed above) from a local auto supply that sells Pittsburg paints. I gave the paint to the guy that was painting my tank and fenders. He prepped the metal and shot it and it turned out to be a sort of deck gray paint without any metallic in it. He (the painter) did not know that I was expecting to have a blue paint and, of course, I did not open the can or see the paint mixed. I just talked to the Pittsburg paint tech support folks and it turns out that I should have asked for "DBC 190388" not DBC 19038 as listed above. So, if you use the paint codes above, you may not find them to be correct. I talked to a guy in PPG Tech Support at 1-800-647-6050 and he straightened me out on the number. He tells me that DBC 190388 does cross reference to a color named "Blue Streak" and the other number does not. As a retired Navy guy, I'm prepared to live with a deck gray motorcycle for this season. Then we'll maybe revisit the issue for next year... Jack | ||
| 5liter |
Haze gray and under way...................  | ||
| Jackbequick |
I went over this afternoon and looked at the paint job I got. It looks great! But it is not Blue Streak. The guy is a good painter and saw the paint as sort of lacking in character when he shot it. So he added some metallic dust he had in his leftovers to it, and that gave it some light sparkle. The color is hard to describe, it is like somewhere between black and a real dark purple. But it looks OK and I'm going to leave things alone and take what I have for now. The problem came down that to the guy at the auto parts store ignored a disconnect between the name of the color I gave him (Blue Streak) and the color mixing specs that came up when he entered the invalid (DBC 19038) code instead of the DBC 190388 that should have been entered. That took him to another menu, he made another choice to complete the recipe, and I wound up with something other than what I wanted. We're all a little older and smarter, the auto parts store is going to give me the right paint, and I'll consider having the painting redone after I see what I have in an all completed and assembled form and in the daylight for a while. Haze gray (or the slightly darker deck gray) looks good on a lot of things. Ships, tractors, machine tools, etc. But I don't think it would rank very high as a choice for me for a bike. At any rate I'm going to wind up with something that looks good, and different, and I'm cool with that. I'll follow up with a photo or two here. Jack |
