I am fettling a AGM Nr 6 Readyglo heater. This model has a very special kind of paint. It is green speckled, looks almost like a lizard. After cleaning off all thick dust, it is in condition as shows on the images. Now is the problem, what to do with it. It is almost impossible to get the same kind of nuance and speckled finish. So maybe better keep it as it is or paint it in a new colour? Some details are interesting. The heater has been painted aftewards it has been assembled. Question is why? Maybe the easiest way but absolutely not the best. The fitting for the reflector has no painting at all underneath and was corroded. Fortunately the fount is zink plated so it has managed through the years. The bottom of the fount has a totally different kind of green nuance, why making it more complicated with different colours? The heater parts are laying on my fettling table. You can see there has been a number of items there before. Maybe time for a cleaning up that one too. Bo
Is the paint that remains peeling off readily too; as it appears to be or is it generally intact for a while and can be cleaned? If the latter Perhaps leave it for a while and see how it all looks after you have cleaned all other parts and got it working. if it then still looks odd and out of place could you just touch up the main missing areas with a similar colour to the dark green. perhaps even experimenting on something else rolling a sponge over the metal with light green patterned on the sponge to create the shapes. Tough decision. good luck. PS nice unit, I think AGM is an interesting maker of many liquid fuelled gizmos. Good piece for your collection.
Hi Bo, Check out these links here and here . Plastikote is more available in the UK than in the US. As they have the black top coat which "crackles" maybe you could get in touch with Plastikote and see if they have a light green base coat which will work with their "system". That finish of theirs seems to be a dead ringer for this AGM finish and the Coleman Colac finish. At the end of the day, it's just a controlled paint drying process which would probably take a lot of trial and error to get just right. It would be nice to use a commercial product which could save a lot of time. I'll be most interested in how you progress on this as I have a few lamp projects in mind for this finish. Dan
Thank you for the links. But I think it will be hard to find the right nuance. I will check if these paintings are available here in Sweden. Bo
The rest of the painting is well fixed. I don't know why parts has flake off. But I think it has been affected by something that has dissolve the paint. It was extremely dirty and covered by som kind of sticky batter. Bo
The paint work is proberly right 2 tone Its called a green crackle finish . Some lamps in USA had this finish . Bob .
