Page History: Paint Colors - Crescent Machine Company
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There are several opinions as to what color Crescent originally painted their machinery. It is generally agreed that the early machines were painted a flat black (no gloss in the paint at all). I have not heard of anybody that has gone to the trouble to match the paint perfectly but I imagine that some plain old flat black Rustoleum would do the trick.
Some old machines were painted a very dark smoke gray - with almost a hint of blue. A close match to this color is to take a quart of Rustoleum Flat Black and mix a small 8 oz can of Rustoleum Gloss White.
Later machines are believed to have been painted a standard Machinery Gray - similar to the old Delta and Rockwell machines.