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Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
By:Ian Cummins
Date: 1/31/2011, 12:34 pm
In Response To: Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims (Jay Babina)

Thanks to all...what a great resource this is. I'd thought about sanding a pencil because my hardware didn't have graphite dust. Surprising it would take so little. Anyway I like John's thought of using the brown (wood flour) and it may be a bit less messy.

Ian

: You can just take a fat carpenters pencil and grind away on a piece
: of sandpaper to make some graphite powder. You'll be surprised
: how little you ned to tint an epoxy mixture. Probably a quarter
: teaspoon for a 3 or 4 oz mixture. You might find graphite powder
: (used as a lubricant) at a good hardware store. Or the copy
: (laser) toner works OK too.

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
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Ian Johnson -- 1/31/2011, 4:02 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
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
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Brian Nystrom -- 1/31/2011, 6:34 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Jay Babina -- 1/31/2011, 8:00 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Ian Cummins -- 1/31/2011, 12:34 pm
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Bill Hamm -- 2/1/2011, 12:56 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Don T -- 2/1/2011, 6:37 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
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
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims *PIC*
Bryan Hansel -- 1/31/2011, 3:21 pm