Well, actually it's not the factory color which was a nice gray as you can see on the lamp in the first photos. Apparently when Tida started selling these out here on the west coast they decided to rebrand them as Samson's (???) and paint them a color that makes dogs vomit from three blocks away. Inspired marketing move there. That combined with trying to make Japanese quality machines and charge accordingly from a market that had no history of quality machine tools and you can see why they went out of business after about a ten year run.
Anyhow, so I decided to paint it. This is a machine I use nearly every day. It's not a collectors item or rare in any way. This ended up being such a PITA that I will probably never do it again unless the machine meets some of those previous qualifications, and even then I will need to be broke or I will pay someone else to do it. I hate doing paint work...on anything. That said here is are the pictures.
I think you only get 5 pictures per post so I will break this up into two posts.
This is it before right before I bought it with the original paint. Ironically with the Duplomatic tracer I would buy months later in the shot on the back of Graziano lathe.
