Someone sent me a NOS cap ....
If any of you have been following my thread about my experimentation in recreating the famous Frigidaire multimatic agitator cap, you'll remember me going on and on about fretting with color and sheen to get the original look. It really came down to not having a nice original cap to work from and in my mind trying to satisfy my ocd need for perfection was a moot point. I have always said being "close" is for horse shoes and hand grenades.
I have an original cap that had great detail but color wise has turned almost a dark brown. I was lucky enough to get my hands on an aftermarket cap that still had pretty good color but thought the chances of ever seeing an actual original cap with good color was basically nill ...... until today! Look what someone sent me - cap on the left. You can see that it spent years sitting in a parts bin exposed to sunlight on its right side. The clear plastic bag it sat in allowed light to come into contact, except for a paper label containing the part number shielding a strip of the rubber. How funny is that, a NOS NLA cap with just a strip of original color. But it is a great example of what it is supposed to look like! Again I never thought I would ever get the opportunity to see one. And if I may say, my "close" reproduction is closer than I ever thought possible - (cap on right).
Bud - Atlanta
If any of you have been following my thread about my experimentation in recreating the famous Frigidaire multimatic agitator cap, you'll remember me going on and on about fretting with color and sheen to get the original look. It really came down to not having a nice original cap to work from and in my mind trying to satisfy my ocd need for perfection was a moot point. I have always said being "close" is for horse shoes and hand grenades.
I have an original cap that had great detail but color wise has turned almost a dark brown. I was lucky enough to get my hands on an aftermarket cap that still had pretty good color but thought the chances of ever seeing an actual original cap with good color was basically nill ...... until today! Look what someone sent me - cap on the left. You can see that it spent years sitting in a parts bin exposed to sunlight on its right side. The clear plastic bag it sat in allowed light to come into contact, except for a paper label containing the part number shielding a strip of the rubber. How funny is that, a NOS NLA cap with just a strip of original color. But it is a great example of what it is supposed to look like! Again I never thought I would ever get the opportunity to see one. And if I may say, my "close" reproduction is closer than I ever thought possible - (cap on right).
Bud - Atlanta
