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After having recently refinished an old Harmony Meteor using nitrocellulose (from Guitar ReRanch) I can vouch both for its excellent finishing characteristics as well as its noxious impact on the air quality in my garage.

That's why they call it dope.

The first time I ever used nitro was in 1966, when I repainted my friend's mom's new Plymouth Valiant (she bought a red one and had a change of mind to black). I had a new gun and rented compressor, and a gallon of black DuPont nitro and a fiver of thinner.

It was late fall and a bit cool, so I used a cooler thinner and left the doors to the 2-car garage closed.

After about the fourteenth coat (no respirator) I began to get the munchies, so off to the DQ for a burger and jumbo pineapple shake. I normally hate pineapple shakes. I don't know what I was thinking...but I do know that I remember nothing for awhile until I chundered all over the parking lot before heading back for fourteen more coats.

Since then, I've learned the secrets of good ventilation and good food, too.

Oh, and I had black rings around both nostrils that looked like Harry Potter's eyeglasses.

Those were the good old days,,not! I'm a auto refinisher by trade and we've come a long way.
These days it's 3-4 coats of base color and 2-3 of clear. Force dry it and it's down the road in 4 hours.
I do remember using nitro and acrylic and they were both a pain.

Nowadays you can buy a small external air supply mask system for a reasonable price.

Yeah, with the compressor to feed it, it's about $3K.

Yup. The compressor needs to be an oil less unit, otherwise you're sucking in that ****.

Much less than that. I picked up one for under $1,000CDN including taxes. (and yes oil less compressor) My other hobby is old cars. A Supplied Air Systems model 3800-30.

http://www.sassafety.com/shop/shopexd.asp?id=168

Thanks for the leak, er, link! Anyhow, I've got a big backdraft booth, so an organic vapor mask works fine.

check out George's 12 in the beatles gear book you can see it has steel nuts on the bridge --- here's also a link to Lennons original bridge that just sold it has steel nuts too
link

Sold, for $6000.00.

Crazy world we live in.

i happened onto a site that has a 360/12c63 FG, but the asking price is $2499 ...

Wow! Back to the original topic, Gary!

This is indeed a rare occurrence..... usually the thread drifts 'off-subject' and dies..... I am humble before your personage, oh Great One!!

Gary was there any pictures?

I have a soft spot for pictures of the c63...

Howard, you crack me up!

Patrick, no pics unfortunately, it was one of those "... e-mail us..." listings. Apparently this particular dealer ordered one three years ago. Earlier in the thread, a price of $2199 was cited, so this dealer's price is a little high.