At 10:31 PM -0500 3/25/03, Bob Danielson wrote:
>I know this has come up a number of times in the best but...... what's the
>best way to get a paint match for touch-up paint? I think I recall listers
>saying that auto paint places use a 'doo-hickey gizmo thingie' against your
>existing paint to get a match and then can mix an exact match up.
That's basically it. (The d-h-g-t you refer to is more properly called a
reflection spectrophotometer.) The paint shop will take the data and match
it against a manufacturer's formula, if it's not custom paint.
Phil Barnes (peb3@cornell.edu)
Cortland, NY (nowhere near New York City)
'71 TR6 CC61193L (26 year owner)
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