We are doing a simple viso pump visible in Early early colors. Question is there is no picture that we have that would show if the access or recovery door was orange or Blue. We have done both and thought that the blue was too much and tried the orange. There are to tags or screws on either one so hard to tell which would accent better. The ad we have is for an different pump so it does not show. Too much blue would be maybe not as eye appealing. The cast iron colors are the same as in the photo though. Thoughts anyone ? Mike's decal.

I personally like the orange better.

But I think I would stripe the door to match the pump body . . .

I realize that is more work, but it'll make the door dissapear.

Jim

agree .. ...

Agree with above. Since striping the door would be lot of work, definitely the orange if going solid.

Orange door. If you do not want to stripe the door maybe you could do just the flange on the door, that would make it look smaller.

There is Yellow and Black in your decal...

I like Matt's idea of striping the flange if you don't want to stripe the entire door, but an orange door if you are going with only one color.

Orange would be my suggestion....
Darin

We also thought about Yellow pinstripe because of the all orange bottom and middle. Wish I had the ad here I could take a picture and show that there is some gold in it also along with the gold or bronzish outline of the decal. These suggestions are great and very helpful. I have changed colors many a time because just could not figure it out on other pumps. That is why I ask. Thanks

Like the orange,

Brian

Definitely orange but I like the idea of striping the door as well.

Love the orange as is!

Craig...definitely orange!

Orange door, blue frame around door.

Orange ! wouldn't stripe it .I like the workings of a pump to show ( stand out ) ,its what its all about for me .

I can hear DB now-- its your pump paint as you like.LOL!

If you can find any early examples of signage on the door ... I would consider making it blue and putting a yellow ethyl decal on it. Yellow would pop in the blue.

The Decal cuts into the strip like the door, so a solid door looks balanced and definitely orange.

Wow, beautiful paint work! Getting those diagonal paint lines to match up at the panel edges is so hard and you nailed it! Solid orange is the way to go, trying to carry the diagonal into the panel would be more work and not look good. Solid orange works because it matches the bases and other castings.

I like the orange door myself, I think it flows nice with the orange on the base and lower bowl casting.

The orange door looks the best in my opinion. Very nice job making it period correct Craig! Could you please tell me what is the exact width of your stripes in case I ever decide to restore one like that? Thanks!

Goober

I am in the orange camp. Nice work Craig.

I believe that they are about 5 1/4" or close to it wide. Start from the back and come to the front so that they are equal. Painter and I had lots of fun lining this up. We had less fun though on the handle, got to complicated so just put it in one color.

I must say that is one classy pump!!! I can't wait to see it done. I am one of those that would work on it till I made the stripe wrap the door. I like the orange the best.