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If anyone has been following this, I'm sorry for the hiatus: I lost my password and, for various reasons, couldn't retrieve it....  But I'm back now.

To continue....



The old head is slowly cleaning up.  I resorted to violence last night (with the dental pick).

Old photo for comparison:




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They might not look it, but they're a lot cleaner!

Did the valves and springs in petrol, and the rest in paraffin (the only 2 solvents I had in).

Will get most of the rest of the components cleaned up as I start reassembly, once the crank is done.  Off to Ipswich next weekend for that.

Toyota Windsor Grey ?
Did you try this
https://www.dipyourcar.com/cdn/shop/files/a51f3a95597d43bbaf957c3009e76b01.png

Hmmm. Quite a degree darker than what I expected.
Seems near what I painted my Dominator in.
And what some later Enfields came in.
??

This postwar Model G appears to have been merely done with aluminium paint.
Although the concentric carb sez its a recent resto.
Hmmm.

https://cdn.justauto.com.au/ad-assets%2F2023-06%2F1685699589_rhs_1.jpg

Thanks for the comments folks.
Yes, experienced painters recommend painting a bikes topcoat all from the one can, if possible.
'Cause that 2nd can they supplied may not be exactly the same shade.
And I have seen this myself.
Mixing it up in a larger can then splitting into 2 smaller ones helps prevent this.



This, and other pics, should be good enough to get a match from.
Seems it was a single stage enamel pearl, in common with the numerous other shades of
polychromatic enamels Enfields used  over the decades.

Curiously, HD also used a pearl type shade they called HiFi blue. You can still buy it over the parts counter. ?
A stronger shade of blue though, it would be a mistake to assume it was the same.

Sorry can't really help. But the good news is there aren't too many REs of this period (are we close to 1970?) so it will probably never be parked next to another machine in the same colour. Always funny to see the "common" makes painted in a wide range of approximations to the original!

Leon