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bzb wrote:Unless there's a female trolling here, we're all men. It's black. There is no "shade" of black.

Although the next time I need help picking out curtains, I know who to ask.



This is with one coat of Duratex on top of flat black Sherwin-Williams acrylic primer. The access panel has no Duratex on it, only the primer. You can make out the wood grain below the primer.


Untitled by bzbatl, on Flickr

I never thought of putting the jack in the access panel...

FYI - even if you're super-careful in handling your cabs, they will pick up dust and the like, so duratex will look lighter over time. If you take a damp cloth and wipe the duratex down every so often it restores it to that nice, freshly-painted dark black.

bzb wrote:There is no "shade" of black.

In the video world there is black, and there is "super black" ( with a difference of 15 )


Syd

jcmbowman wrote: If you take a damp cloth and wipe the duratex down every so often it restores it to that nice, freshly-painted dark black.

I use Armorall... works great for a nice, clean shine.

Doug Hart wrote:

jcmbowman wrote: If you take a damp cloth and wipe the duratex down every so often it restores it to that nice, freshly-painted dark black.

I use Armorall... works great for a nice, clean shine.

Oooh - good call. Armorall would also help maintain the water-repellent properties of duratex.

jcmbowman wrote:Armorall would also help maintain the water-repellent properties of duratex.

Rain-X would prolly be even better, but I haven't tried it.

I've also wondered about that stuff you spray on car tires to keep them shiny and black.

K, now we're just getting silly.

First gig outside mine get dusty. Every once in a while I wash them down with some detergent and a scrub brush. I need to get back on my annual recoat schedule.

Recoat? OK, clearly I'm going with Line-X. Life's too short for not to opt out of routine maintenance when possible.

el_ingeniero wrote:Recoat? OK, clearly I'm going with Line-X. Life's too short for not to opt out of routine maintenance when possible.

ive seen some notes on here about using truck bed liners on cabs. sounds like out-gassing is a serious issue with some of them.

My 99 cent brush stays with my duratex after I clean it out. I just stipple a layer over trouble spots. No sweat.

netwerks wrote:I never thought of putting the jack in the access panel...

They're always wall or corner loaded, and almost always on their side, so it just doesn't make sense for me to leave em in the bottom of the back - always exposed. Especially when they're v-plated, the jacks will be out of the way.

I had a gig where I had wall-loaded the subs about 20' from my table, and the girls started dancing on them. One stepped down right on top of the cables and tripped (alcohol's a helluva drug).

After that, I posted a question here, and Leland said he'd done it for a customer even with the deep dish. So I ordered some. I'll take some pics of the deep dish. It's a close fit, but it protects the Speakon plugs nicely.

Sydney wrote:

bzb wrote:There is no "shade" of black.

In the video world there is black, and there is "super black" ( with a difference of 15 )


Syd

I've got one of the LED panels that can be 0% fired to have blacker blacks, contrast is crazy good. But dammit, it's still black.

http://www.amguard.us/

I like the fact duratex is water based but the priming, not sticking to bondo, not sticking to pl and the fact that it doesn't perform as well as solvent based products has sent me back to the sound guard product. Comes in quart cans that screw right on to their siphon gun.