Appliance Painting

[Soap-n-Suds]

Hi Gang,

I've had it! Since I can't find a stove and frig in Harvest Gold, I've decided I'm gonna buy an old white one and have them painted HG. So, my questions are:

Where exactly does one take an appliance to be painted? I have a 'newer' frig that I will have painted, but can you paint a stove too? Anyone know a place in/near Sacramento that does this sort of thing?

I know you can buy enamel paint and I could try to paint the frig myself, but I can't find anything even remotely close to HG.

Any thoughts/help would be much appreciated.

(Sorry Robert if this isn't in the right spot, but I figured us 'older' folks would have more knowledge than the young'ins in the other departments.

 

[gmmcnair]

I'm not in Sacramento...

...but I used to work with a lady who tired of the avocado in her kitchen. She had replaced all but the fridge and portable dishwasher and they were still serviceable but stuck out like a sore thumb.

 

She contacted an automotive paint place who happily turned them into Almond appliances and did a nice job. You might wanna try that.

 

[whirlcool]

There are companies that paint appliances. I have seen them at home improvement conventions. They do a pretty good job from what I have seen. The pricing wasn't bad, I saw one place that would repaint a refrigerator with an gloss enamel for about $150.00.

 

[circlew]

Painting stoves

Back in the mid 70's, my friend Debbie's parents decided to paint their Coppertone Tappan gas range Harvest Gold to match their new refrigerator. Let's just say they wish they hadn't.

First it started blistering and peeling off around the burners, then the top of the oven door. Pretty soon most of the paint was off the top third of that stove. Talk about ugly. They had cleaned it good before painting, but no other prep. However, I don't think any paint that would have looked right would have held up. I suppose they could have used grill paint, but doubt that came in HG. They ended up using paint stripper and taking it all off.

As for other appliances, my friend Brenda took the front panel of her dishwasher to a local body shop, and had it painted blue with some kind of expensive DuPont auto finish. It looked very nice.

 

[daveelias]

Harvest Gold Stove

Hey there .....I found one on CL in Weirton, WV...very near Pittsburgh

http://wheeling.craigslist.org/app/2298471780.html

Thanks!
Dave

http://wheeling.craigslist.org/app/2298471780.html

 

[gmmcnair]

Harvest Gold Stove

Back when I was a kid and we were renting, we had that same exact stove in harvest....IIRC it actually cooked and baked quite nicely for a cheapie. My mother enjoyed using it, and she's super baker, super cook.

 

[beekeyknee]

Porcelain Parts

Don't paint well.

 

[toploader55]

Contact rickr

His restored machines are beautiful.

I think a friend of his has an Auto Body Shop. See what Rick has to say.

 

[appliguy]

from what I have been told......

you can only repaint a range that is NOT self cleaning because a self cleaning range gets so hot in cleaning mode (approximately 900 degrees) that the paint will quickly discolor from the heat of the cleaning cycle. Is this true?......PAT COFFEY

 

[circlew]

Debbie's family's Tappan they painted wasn't self cleaning. The reflected heat from the bottom of large pots & pans scorched the paint off. They did a lot of cooking and canning, so the stove was heavily used.

Taking the range apart and sending the pieces to be porcelain coated in the desired color would cost a great deal more than the price of a new range.

 

[jakins]

Painting a porcelain stove

I had a 1930's Magic Chef range. it was Cream with green marble trim was quite chipped. I had a company the resurfaces bath tubs recoat it the stuff they used was good enough for the oven door as it took the high temps. even the broiler drawer was fine. and they mached the marble look on the doors. the only thing that they said was not to use bleach to clean it as it would make it peel.

 

[klinkerqueen]

Minor Chips...

Is there any help for chips on the panels? My washer was chipped during the move, can they be fixed without a complete repainting?

 

[3beltwesty]

appliance touch up paint

Some paint stores; box stores sell Appliance paint touchup kits for minor nicks and chips. The bottles are small ie 0.6 to 2 oz and it looks like a nail polish bottle.

Rust O leum has 0.6 oz bottles at Home Depot in White and Amond. GE and Krylon make these small paints too. These are typically for a nicked washer,dryer or fridge and NOT a heated stove's panel.

These are Specialty paints, real small bottles of liquid paint with a built in tiny brush on most of them. For larger areas some of these makers sell spray can paint for Appliances. Krylons tiny touch up version is like a pen.

Repair clinic even sells these small paints

Ebay has them too under searches like "appliance touch up paint".

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