Jovanny Salazar
Newbie
Could they do it thru a phone screen?
What color would this be ?
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Hipster
I'm Awesome
no, the camera they use is actually called a photo spectrometer or something like that. It's a highly specialized piece of equipment backed by the computer programming that analyzes the colors and compares them to the toners in the mixing system to produce a formula to mix the actual color.
There's more to it then to call it teal. I've used the camera and mixed tons of auto paint and that color might have half a dozen different toners in that comprise that color. Blue , green, maybe violet, pearl, aluminum flake, black, maybe some others, etc.
It helps to know what brand of paint was used as well as not not all paint systems have the same exact toners to get the same place and best you can hope for is a blendable match.
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sewlow
Bitchin' Stitchin'
There's a painter in the house!
I've had more than a few guys come to my shop & want me to do an interior color-matched to the already painted exterior.
Doesn't work that way. I'm not the one that gets to mix the dyes for any & every fabric, vinyl or leather within the interior.
Limited by the available choices.
But...The paint guys can match the outside to whatever choice is made for the inside. The spectrometer.
Dyes fall into that mixology thing too.
(But there's limitations as to what can be dyed.)
Yea. Don't mix brands.
Big stress. Customer's car! = High Anxiety.
(Tim Taylor) "Ohhh Nooo..."
Hipster
I'm Awesome
LOL, I painted for 12 years before getting into the collision end of things. Vinyl dye is painted vinyl. lol It works ok on non-wear stuff, and some paint systems are set up to mix it as well. I prefered to mix out of the system as that gave me the ability to do some tinting. Painted my fare share of interior stuff for an upholstery shop/guy.
sewlow
Bitchin' Stitchin'
Dye was explained to me by an SEM rep. to be more towards a 'stain' then 'paint' due to the way that, when done right, (good prep!) dye will soak right into & become part of the substrate as opposed to sitting on top like paint.
An upholstery guy that didn't do his own dying? That could be either due to time constraints, lack of space or lack of knowledge.
I actually enjoy that aspect.
Hipster
I'm Awesome
A stain has not been my experience. Not in the same sense that leather dye or Rit dye is. It will wear off the top of a door pad or seat and expose the original color. Scratch it same thing. If there are some penetrating qualities to it I think it's minimal.
The upholstery shop was the next building over. I guess it was easier for him to hand me off stuff such as interior pieces to do in a booth then fogging out his shop with paint. His shop was immaculate and always had a few really high end hotrods sitting in there. He liked to talk. Some kind of fancy leather, embroidery work, stitched and or hand tooled leather inlays blah, blah, blah.
Jovanny Salazar
Newbie
So it’s not a bright teal metallic? He’s is a aqua ?
MrPink
Bainisteoir Páirteanna
i pulled it from another thread, no clue what his truck actually is.
