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Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
By:Paul G. Jacobson
Date: 1/31/2011, 3:43 am
In Response To: Material: Blackener for hatch rims (Ian Cummins)

: . . . I'm hoping to find something locally
: and not too exotic.

Charcoal. Either buy a bag, beg a spare briquette from a friend, or partially burn a stick. Put your charcoal in a dish and grind it with a broomstick if you don't have a mortar and pestle. it crshes very easily into extremely fine particles. The more time you work it the finer it gets-- but you only need a teaspoon full and getting that should be less than a minute. You can filter it through a piece of loosely woven fabric (cheesecloth) to eliminate any big chunks if you feel you have to.

If you can find a match and a stick (hopefully that is not too exotic, or foreign) you're in business.

Hope this helps

PGJ

Messages In This Thread

Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Ian Cummins -- 1/30/2011, 10:32 pm
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims *PIC*
dave g -- 1/30/2011, 11:07 pm
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Bill Hamm -- 1/31/2011, 12:10 am
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Ian Johnson -- 1/31/2011, 4:02 am
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Greg Bridges -- 1/31/2011, 12:13 am
Consider brown *PIC*
John Caldeira -- 1/31/2011, 12:20 am
Re: Consider brown
Ian Cummins -- 1/31/2011, 11:23 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/31/2011, 3:43 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Bill Hamm -- 1/31/2011, 3:50 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 1/31/2011, 6:34 am
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Jay Babina -- 1/31/2011, 8:00 am
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Ian Cummins -- 1/31/2011, 12:34 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/1/2011, 12:56 am
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Don T -- 2/1/2011, 6:37 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/1/2011, 4:54 pm
exotic edges for hatch rims *PIC*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/31/2011, 12:42 pm
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
MattD. -- 1/31/2011, 3:06 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 1/31/2011, 3:21 pm