Industrial/Equipment Paint Chip Book

[cavalry]

I am looking for a chip book for equipment paint codes. I am not interested in say the chip page from Tractor Supply, but something that can be cross referenced to other automotive paint brands via code.
I use Martin Senour because its whats available. My dealer use to have a physical chip book I think it was called the industrial book. It was a small flip book like from a wall paint store, not the old school binder with every color by year. Everyone there seems to remember what I am talking about but no one knows where it is or how to get another. This book had chips and codes for tractors, heavy equipment, welders, diesel engines, etc, etc.
Interweb searching has come up dry, can you guys save the day?

 

[californiamilleghia]

Would love to see a book like that , but have not seen one at the swap meet ,

 

[dcg9381]

I don't have any feedback on the chip books, but for color match technology has changed and many paint places can reproduce a very accurate color code based on a physical sample of something that has been painted.. Even home depot can do it.

 

[cavalry]

I don't have any feedback on the chip books, but for color match technology has changed and many paint places can reproduce a very accurate color code based on a physical sample of something that has been painted.. Even home depot can do it.

My employ is a specialist in color matching and I actually have a $19K handheld spectrometer randomly sitting on my desk right now. Paint is an evil, evil thing to match correctly. This is why auto shops blend panels and cannot just paint the repaired panel. Yes, the technology is decent, it gets you 95+% to the right color which for most is probably pretty good enough. It would need to be the same paint system with similar pigments and a translation for this to kinda work. I cant scan something at a hardware store and bring it to my automotive paint supplier and have them mix it up, they wouldn't know what to do with it. Some body shops or auto paint suppliers have a spectro, but none that I have access to.
This is more for damaged/faded/incorrect paint. For instance, a few years ago I wanted to paint a Cummins engine beige and didnt want to waste my time with rattlecans or dealer paint. I was able to have my supplier mix up their version of Cummins beige with no sample to work from.

 

[Steve_P]

I specify PPG industrial urethane at work and had to go to a local dealer and take phone pics of the pages in his book that I was interested in. The binder was several inches thick and is certainly not something they give away. If you spend thousands on paint a month then maybe your dealer will be able to order one for you; but from what I saw it was just generic colors; or 99% generic colors. There was no info other than the data sheets online at that time.

 

[23ford]

I have one of the books you are looking for when I get mobile again
I will look for it......
Had part of my leg removed

 

[F-22]

For german industrial equipment (made to the DIN standard), the book is pretty short - everything RAL 6011 machine green

 

[cavalry]

I have one of the books you are looking for when I get mobile again
I will look for it......
Had part of my leg removed

Yikes!

Thanks, if there is a part number or something on it it would be very helpful in finding another.

 

[23ford]

It is from Martin Senior when dad had a body shop

 

[dnschmidt]

I just take a sample to my Sherwin-Williams automotive paint store and have them spectro it. For non-metallics the match is dead perfect and for metallics and tri-colors it's 95%. That's close enough for any piece of industrial equipment.

 

[Bill Bowman]

Auto paint store. Ask to see Fleet Colors.

 

[4xdog]

I use the RAL color series, and have a nice swatch book of their standard colors.

 

[K13]

You need to find a better paint store any good automotive jobber that does industrial will have one.

 

[cavalry]

I found one finally, but unfortunately its not at a store close to me and the paint guy barely would even let me touch it lol. The part number does not seem to get me anywhere. Anyone know of an source, equivalent, or replacement so I could have one on hand?

 

[neophyte]

I found one finally, but unfortunately its not at a store close to me and the paint guy barely would even let me touch it lol. The part number does not seem to get me anywhere. Anyone know of an source, equivalent, or replacement so I could have one on hand?

Paint fan decks can be expensive.
Anywhere from $25 up to $400 or more for something like the Pantone system.
It’s also the type of thing stores don’t want to lose because it might never get replaced.