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I just finished spraying an A12 hood with
9355 lacquer which I bought and had mixed at my
local PPg supplier and i mesed it up the first
time by spraying it on too heavy and wet cause of hearing all the complaints of hoods being too gritty.i had too sand it all down cause the texture all went to the bottom.This time I mixed
it 150% with slow lacquer thinner and sprayed it on Medium wet and it went on perfect.It is
supposed to have texture,this hood feels like
220-320 grit sandpaper and i think that is what it is supposed to look like.Use a gravity feed
gun to spray it with so you can spray it with
lower air pressure.Siphon feed guns require about
45 psi and i think that is where the dry or zebra
stripes come into play.I used a Sata HVLP with
1.4 tip and it sprayed even and no stripes or
dry spray.it looks good in my book.

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Thanks for posting those Jeff. Do you have any shots close up that might show the texure you achieved using this technique?

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Tav

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Don't wait for me, I originally posted this December 17, 2005 and Jeff dug it up and it to the top. If I were painting an AAR, T/A hood or an A12 Lift-Off-Hood I would seriously look into this "Note";


NOTE: Engine exterior area of hood to be painted with
2183385 Exterior Air Dry Organsol Paint AX5DX8 Black,
prior to installing hood retaining parts. 1-16-69


Painters out there, does this make any sense? Are the paint codes still relevant?



MikeR


I'm with you on this


BTW Tav, you seem to be waiting for something (from me?? ) in another few re-posts of mine, anything I can do to help let me know because I'm a little


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I originally posted this December 17, 2005 and Jeff dug it up and it to the top.
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Not sure if this helps but that AX5DX8 black seems to be an actual factory< in house> paint code. I know from working in the chrysler facility I was stationed at all of our quart cans and gallon cans of paint material all had an extra label secured over the original along with extra paint codes on it. This was to reduce the amount of lunch pail theft as you weren't really sure of what you were taking without peeling the outside label off. Just a thought. My paint supplier told me that the only codes for organisol in his books from 1969 were the 9355 which probably is correct for doing the rocker blackout as well as the tail panels for chargers etc. as listed on that TSB. He did give me another product which I had forgotten about which is called High Performance Black DDL 9381. That number has been changed to DDL 9423. I remember painting the glass hood for my dads T/A Challenger with this years ago and it seems like it might be the right stuff. I am going over to his shop and look around and see if I can find that gallon can. Has anyone tried using the DDL9423?

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Joey, for sure that is the factory paint code (AX5DX8) for the A12 hoods (and maybe the AAR/T/A too?) and then the 9407 was from memory by a good friend and excellent source and he may be off on the last two numbers because he used the "94" several times until he settled for 9407. The DDL9423 may be the "missing link" for the closest match to the hood paint


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None of the Organosols today are anywhere near the originals, both the metallic and suede used originally is no longer available.

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