Xtracolour Duralumin

[Graham Boak]

I was looking for a suitable paint to experiment with for a bare metal surface, and found this which was clearly unopened. So I gave it a try and found that it had a yellow solvent, which even after being well stirred gave a faint yellow sheen to the dry paint. Memory does suggest that I had seen such a finish before, perhaps in the workshops, but not on bare-metal aircraft.

So is this a feature of the paint? I can imagine uses for this, given the piebald appearance of some types.

Or do I just have a poor (possibly aged) example?

[Bear13583]

Both tins I have bought exploded when I opened them so I think you're lucky!

[Karl]

Both tins I have bought exploded when I opened them so I think you're lucky!

Happened to me with High Speed Silver; just got the lid open and it popped right off and splashed in a few places. Luckily nothing was damaged.

Don't know about the yellow sheen though, not had that on my Duraluminium I don't think.

Karl

[Graham Boak]

I've still got a High Speed Silver unopened (I think it's unopened). There were stories about metallic tins of paint exploding on aircraft, which is why (ok, maybe one reason why) enamel paints are now banned, giving us loads of problems.

[Baggers]

There was a "dodgy" batch of Xtracolour metals which exploded on opening. A friend of mine had a similar experience when opening a tin of aluminium. Thankfully it was only the workbench that got hit.