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« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2007, 12:54:27 pm »
looks great!!
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« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2007, 01:09:54 pm »
Great Job Bryan!
Looks like you took a lot a care in the restoration.
I think it looks purdy too.
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« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2007, 02:23:26 pm »
Bryan It looks great. Do you know the colour code for the baby blue. I'm going to give my Jacobs a crack in the near future and I was going to go double dot blue but yours has changed my mind.
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« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2007, 02:30:40 pm »
Bryan,

That's really a nice looking job!!

What color of paint did you use?
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« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2007, 05:47:34 pm »
Look good Bryan , I'll bet the inside looks just
as nice, got to see the inside of that  '<img'>

Pat
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« Reply #15 on: January 28, 2007, 11:44:45 pm »
Thanks all... I've posted lots of pics of the cooler (inside and out) in the SMC Photo gallery.  

Believe it or not, I wanted it to be dark blue like audiobeer's.  Both machines I've done have been Pepsi. The fist was a VMC56 (also in the SMC gallery VMC56 pics) that I painted with a paint cross referenced to DuPont   #95605.  It came out really light.  So I assumed that the only other Pepsi code I've seen posted would get me the dark blue.  So I did the Ideal in DuPont #96581. Came out darker than the VMC56 but still light.  If I do another Pepsi machine, I think I'll just pick colors from chips.
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« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2007, 07:30:47 am »
That machine looks stellar! Great job Bryan! '<img'>
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« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2007, 10:26:09 pm »
Bryan, It looks real nice you should be real
proud of that   '<img'>   '<img'>   A  job well done.

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« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2007, 08:40:22 pm »
Nice.
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« Reply #19 on: February 05, 2007, 05:48:55 am »
Bryan,  How did you paint the embossing?  Whoever did it did an amazing job.
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