Try taking an unmarked sample to a professional paint store that uses a color scan computer to match paint samples and generate each matching formula.
………………….Iron Helix
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This has got to be one of the top ten stupid questions!
why dewalt yellow?
Not any thing I would want to look at all day.
definitely not a tool choice to be proud of.
Did you win a whole sop of dewalt tools?
What happens in three months when they break down and you decide to replace them with a real tool like Milwaukee or Metabo, or Porter Cable,or Hitachi,or even Makita?
Since you probably have already made up your mind , Just goe down to your Schools bus garage and ask them where they get Their drums of schoolbus yeller.
Does your WIFE know about this plan of yours, I think not !!
Mr T
Do not try this at home!
I am a trained professional!
I happen to like my DeWalt double compound miter saw and my DeWalt 12v 3/8 hole boring system still goes round and round (does anybody know what causes that clicking sound?)... do you know anyone who would like to buy a DeWalt laminate trimmer that has only ruined one job and hit the wall a couple of times?
sometimes board sometimes knot
Iron Helix has the basic idea right, but in my opinion the scanners only give you a place to start that's close. Real color matching needs to be done by applying the paint directly on the object/color to be matched, quick-drying, scrutinizing the match, then adjusting the tint to get it closer yet. It takes a lot of knowhow and a good eye to do this. If you crank in too much tint, then the paint is ruined and you have to start over with a new can of base color. And not very many paint suppliers are good at this.
By the way, I can't imagine being so enamoured with Dewalt that I would paint ANYTHING the same color. Sick of the yellow tools, 'tho I own a few myself that I really like- only after I had found out by using them that I decided they were worth buying. Some of their tools are total crap- the recip. saw comes to mind.
Ken Hill
I wouldnt call ya stupid but you sound a bit dizzy.....lol.or is the right word eccentric? Personally I think you should go with Home Depot orange with a DeWalt trim yellow.....but what do I know? Duh
BE well..ROFLOLMAOBTC
Namaste'
Andy
PS....C'mon, its a Saturday nite fellas
It's not who's right, it's who's left ~ http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
That's the flashbacks, or possible the residual drugs still in the machine talking...stop it. Just say NO!
Keith
Unless yer a Nancy Reagan fan then why say NO...I say go with it bro.....Before ya know it you'll be in OZ...Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road....or is that the orange brick road? Hmmm
Be well
Namaste'
AndyIt's not who's right, it's who's left ~ http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
Dewalt does not own a particular hue and chroma of yellow. Feel free to take a tool to a paint store for color matching. They do have a lawsuit against another "toolmaker" for violating the "look and feel" of dewalt products, but that's an entirely different thing. I would only have Milwaukee red myself, but to each his own.
I believe the hue is somewhere between bumblebee yellow and yellowjacket yellow.
They make them that color so you won't lose them.......
Where's your Shop?
Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Mr. Tdtracy,
T8 bulbs put out a different spectrum than other kinds of lights such as tungsten or sodium halide, etc. Thus - unless you get an exact chemical match with the DeWalt paint - it will not exactly match under different types of light such as sunlight.
My hunch is that you're trying to patch some scrapes on your tools. Have you tried contacting the DeWalt company - or is it the [offshore] Stanley Corporation?
cheers
-Peter
Sipping tea by the blue bay.
You could just paint them pink. It cuts down on theft.
Hey, I've been too darn busy to post recently, (in fact I haven't been around since before the format change, imagine my surprise) but I hope that the attitude displayed by Mr. T isn't the way posts are made now.
Yes you are entitled to your opinion, you can even say you hate DeWalt and the color of it's tool all day long, but to call someone else stupid for what they like is rude and immature. My company colors are yellow and black, and I think they look pretty sharp. Do I love DeWalt? Not really, I own some of their tools, and I own some from several other manufactures. The point is that I liked that color combination long before I ever bought a DeWalt tool. I have read many many posts badmouthing DeWalt Tools, but I have never had a single problem with any of mine, but I had to return a Milwaukee that had a bad switch, that doesn't mean I won't buy Milwaukee again.
I suppose you hate Stanley Tools, Bell South Yellow Pages, Klein Electrical and Bic pencils because they have a yellow and black logo too?
Justus Koshiol
Running Pug Construction
Well EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!Do not try this at home!
I am a trained professional!
No apology required. It's a dumb question.
If you're allowed near tools, you should already know the answer to the question, one would hope.
Posting question to see your name in print is pointless and detracts from legitimate questions from people with problems. This silly question belongs in the tavern for a laugh.
Gabe
I don't hate any of the stuff you mention; I was just merely suggesting an alternative and possibly practical paint theme.
Sorry notchman, I'm not used to this new fangled site format, I was speaking directly to Mr. T. I don't have any problem with you painting your tools whatever color you want, Writing your name, on them with note that says do not accept as pawn collateral might help too, though by the time the thief reads that it might be too late.
Justus.