I have an M1960 army stove and want to repaint it but don't know what type of paint to use so it will hold up, pleas help.
@Matthew Parunak , pick any color you'd like, not like these are that rare. Myself? I'd shoot the found with a light coating of black epoxy spray paint, and while it's still tacky, put down a coat of something like hunter green, Coleman made many of these stoves, shot them in their color, IIRC. Let it air dry, or put the fount in a oven at 300 deg F for a hour or two. When it cools down, you're all good. Only my opinion. Murph
Color code 24087 is the closest match I have found to the olive drab, stove on the left is an unpainted SMP from 1987, one on the right is a repaint.
A think @Matthew Parunak wants advice on whether the OD paint needs to be something suitable for an engine block, whether water or oil based, whether full-on stovetop paint. I don't know these things, but I assume there are answers :-)
I can’t answer the question. But gas and oil resistance will be important. Don’t want spilled fuel to soften the finish. Heat resistant also.
I've used the Rapco olive drab semi gloss now for 2 years on M1950's and milspec lanterrns, it has worked well for me, and others; is oil based, and seems to be superior to some of the original paints used by the various manufacturers, at least it has not started to peel or blister yet. I've overfilled the stoves and lanterns, spilling fuel down the tank, with no damage that I can see. At first I was priming the tanks with a red oxide primer, but that doesn't seem to be necessary and tends to fill in the often light stampings on the tank. I tape off the legs as best as I can with blue painters tape, and make sure the tanks are completely clean and degreased with acetone. With a dowel rod stuck in the valve bung and the pump/fuel hole plugged with a cork I can rotate the tank as I spray it. Hope that helps or is perhaps more cleat, albeit long winded. I should add that the tanks are completely stripped of the old paint.
you want 2 types. the silver on the upper portion is high-temp paint. you may or may not bake the tank paint but the hi-temp paint for the upper portion, the directions will likely suggest to oven bake dry/harden.
