Festool gray touchup paint

[makpacman]

Both of my Kapex UG stands have some scratches that I'd like to retouch to prohibit rust. Has anyone looked into matching the color?

 

[woodbutcherbower]

Both of my Kapex UG stands have some scratches that I'd like to retouch to prohibit rust. Has anyone looked into matching the color?

Festool grey is RAL7035. You should be able to find multiple online sellers. I’d suggest that a rattle can would be your best bet. Failing that - an oil-based enamel. If you’re not familiar with the RAL colour system, here’s an explanation;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAL_colour_standard
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RAL_colours

 

[makpacman]

Thank you for the answer and the links. Much appreciated.

 

[Packard]

in addition to RAL numbers, both additive (RGB—Red, Green, Blue) and subtractive (CMYK—Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) specs for paint color are published and online.

You can walk into any paint store armed with those numbers and they should be able to give you an exact color match with any type of paint they sell.

In addition, a company, Pantone, has carved out a business making color swatches for paint, for fabrics and for resins.  I have not looked, but certainly there are also Pantone specs for the Festool colors.

I recall plastic “fibers” for 3D printing being specified using Pantone specs.
https://pavilion.dinfos.edu/Article/Article/2355687/

So, if you want a gallon of Festool gray in eggshell so that you can paint your bedroom to resemble a Systainer Room, easy!

 

[makpacman]

[Thumbs up]Over the next year or two I plan to build a work van to house certain tools and facilitate their transport and my productivity onsite. The CMYK colors will certainly be useful for that. I'm listing the values below for future reference.

CMYK
0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.1569

 

[Packard]

[Thumbs up]Over the next year or two I plan to build a work van to house certain tools and facilitate their transport and my productivity onsite. The CMYK colors will certainly be useful for that. I'm listing the values below for future reference.

CMYK
0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.1569

Because the letter “B” was already used for color specification, they used the last letter of “Black” for additive colors. 

So this “color” is a pure gray with no color tint at all, and just a minute amount of black.  You could probably mix it yourself at home, but you would not achieve the can-to-can consistency that a professionally mixed color would.

 

[bertv]

[Thumbs up]Over the next year or two I plan to build a work van to house certain tools and facilitate their transport and my productivity onsite. The CMYK colors will certainly be useful for that. I'm listing the values below for future reference.

CMYK
0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.1569

Because the letter “B” was already used for color specification, they used the last letter of “Black” for additive colors. 

Nah, the K is mostly understood to stand for KEY or KRAFT (in German). In principle with perfect CMY one would be able to print most colours, but in practice that is not achievable, because it lacks contrast. Hence adding a transparent black to the mix.
Some genius discovered that by repacing all neutral color mixes in the CMY range by the equivalent black tint, one could get by with less ink coverage and thus less ink (and cost). Grey Component Removal — g
Wiki that.