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Re: [OM] What Colour?

Subject: Re: [OM] What Colour?
From: The Mauler <mauler@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:58:32 +0800
Larry,

Thanks for the advice.  I need to decide on the colour.  Tough going...

Cheers!

Mauler...

> Powder coat them which ever color you choose.
> 
> Larry
> 
> The Mauler wrote:
> 
>> Folks,
>> 
>> I have a completely defunct OM4Ti body that was probably dropped into water
>> by it's previous owner and not cleaned out properly.  The electronics did
>> not work, and there was corrosion on the parts of the body.
>> 
>> I took the time to take it apart and strip the electronics out.  Amazingly,
>> the insides looked very clean.  Shutter curtains were goners, of course.
>> 
>> I have since stripped the paint off the top and bottom plates.  They both
>> have this nice burnished, smooth look now.  Wonder why the paint chiperd off
>> the body so easily on the Tis and less on the regular bodies?
>> 
>> I intend to, when time and expertise allow, to swap the Ti plates with my
>> regular OM4's.  My question: What colour should I spray the bare plates?  I
>> intend to go with Morgan's coloured leather coverings, the colour of which I
>> am now undecided.
>> 
>> I am somewhat leaning towards the red covering for the body.  Now, what
>> other colour will look nice on a part black and part red body?  Yellow?
>> Green?  Purple?  Blue?  Input, anyone?
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> 
>> The Mauler...
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