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Originally Posted by Charlie Stephens
It is my understanding that Ford used to dump the left over paint from dipping other parts into the paint for the engine thus there was a wide range of light or darkness to the green. I always had better luck painting with a brush instead of a spray can.
Charlie Stephens
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Originally Posted by gdmn852
Hello, I have also heard what post 2 and 4 said In thier posts ,can’t imagine Ford wasting much in the factory.Green must have been a popular color for engines then .
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So lets debunk this theory. Since the engine paint was Alkyd Enamel, ...and the only dipping enamel that was used in Model-A production was Gloss Black, it would have needed WAY more Yellow and Blue toners to make the mix than the amount of Black that Ford would have salvaged from their dipping vats. So my point is, -think about how little of an amount of salvage Black paint would have been needed to formulate the Ford Engine Green, ...and also think about the distilling costs associated in distilling that contaminated Black paint just to make it useable to mix with the Blue & Yellow. If they were going to distill and filter the Black enamel paint, why not just reintroduce it into the fresh Black paint, and continue on.
A second side of this is, -the only place Ford Engine Green was used would have been at the Rouge plant in Dearborn since that is where the castings were made and those pieces painted. So what happened to the 'waste Black paint' from all of the other Branches? Too costly to ship back to Rouge, -and the costs to purify and distill tp render it useful in blending with the Yellow and Blue paint should be enough to say this would not have been done. I have not seen the M-Specs for Ford Engine Green paint, but I also suspect it called for virgin materials. My guess as to what happened to the waste Black paint was it was incinerated and used in generating fuel for the steam generators at each Branch.