best machinery colours

[ned]

it does, it looks very smart. Thanks for that )

 

[indy4x]

Someone on the Yahoo Boxford forum painted theirs Orange

 

[zeppelin builder]

Nope they did have procedures, standards, QC the whole shebang...well until the tail end of the company when a company starting with "pressure" were doing the blasting work for them in the former subcontract division area (and barely managing SA2 / SA2.5 (compared with SA 3/SA3.5 when it was done in house) ) after laying my old man and a good few others off as it would "save a fortune" by subcontracting it.....they then started laying off experienced staff left right and centre, with a lot of the decent welders then working in Portlethen / Aberdeen directly for Brandt etc...shortly after the firm went belly up. Coincedentally Pressure went belly up, then a firm with its initials appeared elsewhere, then a different name on the original site (with mostly the same directors), then in Dundee with a big move to a former distribution yard off the kingsway before going belly up again...anyone local might know who I'm talking about..
Reekie Manufacturing did a heck of a lot of oil sector work for Brandt, Thule, Varco etc over many many years and did a lot of stuff for the Norwegians (who were VERY VERY picky) and the pipe conveyor for the hibernia (rig off Nfld and one of the world's biggest rigs) They stopped doing oil related stuff when their then boss cancelled the brandt contract when one of the managers went to work directly for brandt....cancelling that contract cut off a major revenue stream and probably precipitated the company going down the tubes....Site then was bought and subdivided the factory...and the local rag wrote a fluff piece...reality was pretty much every company that moved there was moving from existing premises and not creating any "new" jobs

Problem is the Reekie name is on a tonne of companies in the area, mainly as it was one family that started a lot of them and then sold them off, so you have several companies, some in similar sectors with very similar names, but entirely different staff and management.

Different Reekie Manufacturing is on the go now, in Arbroath, totally unrelated to the previous firm.

 

[zeppelin builder]

im sure the particular job i was told of was for a canadian client,a tubular subsea type frame heavy 6gr tpye stuff, pity the brandt work dried up as it affected a lot of the smaller outfits eg galloways,and a few lads i know too ,ah Herr Fuzzy i know what yer on about never had the pleasure of working there ,heard it was BAD
didnt he get some massive new cnc gear with scottish gov funding i remember a 2 page cootoryer article on it ,pity he folded it up a few months later
probably set up again somewhere

 

[bigegg]

RAL 7011

 

[postie jon]

Brunswick green is indeed a good machinery colour. Thats Charlottes locks orange is great, i love a good orange.
I'm find of signal yellow / RAL 1003 myself, which is more or less orange.

I'm sorted now, im going to use RAL 5015, its perfect, Chris thanks for that.

Would love to see more, this is great!

Brunswick green is indeed a good machinery colour. Thats Charlottes locks orange is great, i love a good orange.
I'm find of signal yellow / RAL 1003 myself, which is more or less orange.

I'm sorted now, im going to use RAL 5015, its perfect, Chris thanks for that.

Would love to see more, this is great!

White coats and grey machinery= Toolroom! Lycoming grey engine enamel......



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rover pageant blue , is quite similar.

 

[armalites]

Merlo Green

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Decided not to put my smart and brown in stock colours. Wanted something a bit brighter than manky green.

 

[brightspark]

Decided not to put my smart and brown in stock colours. Wanted something a bit brighter than manky green. View attachment 116847

christ that's shouting at u its a bit loud

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Aye. Doing my bit for the environment. Saves electric lighting my garage.

Was wet when photographed. Flash exaggerates the brightness somewhat.

 

[brightspark]

 

[Dieselman 63]

I've gone for something a bit toned down. Again not original - Bantam was grey-green, mine is to be grey-blue, simply because I like both grey and blue!

 

[MBB]

Painted my mill in grey undercoat £1 a spray can from Poundland it took two, it looked that good I bought a matt lacquer spray from Lidl for £2.99.
complete job for under £5.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Painted my mill in grey undercoat £1 a spray can from Poundland it took two, it looked that good I bought a matt lacquer spray from Lidl for £2.99.
complete job for under £5.

There have to be pics.....

 

[RichardM]

First it was Hammerite Dark Green, then it used to be Dark Admiralty Grey, but that tin is nearly empty so next looks like Aldi Silver metal paint (light Grey) next

 

[MBB]

There have to be pics..... very early antique Deckel milling machine about 1920

There have to be pics.....

 

[ned]

sprayed a sample patch of this colour on my plasma table, pepper red metallic i think its called.
its Hycote car spray so would cost a bit to cover the whole table. Nice tho.

 

[cianh91]

satin black and komatsu blue/green

 

[Pete.]

I don't like black for any machine tool it's too hard to distinguish paint from harmful muck and grit. Light colours are nice but the machine can look grubby really easily when oil runs out of the slideways. Grey is a popular colour because it's formless and industrial, not too far departed from the cast iron's native colour (so chips don't stand out so much) and a very neutral colour so less people are likely to 'not like it'.

 

[Dieselman 63]

British Rail painted their trains in two tone grey to stop them needing to be cleaned so often. I know this is post-BR but the underlying colour is still from the late nineties (EWS logo hides the sector badge). Light rail/brake dust goes upwards, darker soot and grime comes downwards. Clever stuff really.