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Show Satisfactory Plan for Painting Exhaust Pipe It Is difficult to find a satisfactory paint for the exhaust pipe and muffler muf-fler because of the heat of those parts. Here is a highly recommended recommend-ed muffler paint: Boiled linseed, oil, one-fifth pound; japan varnish, one-fifth one-fifth pound; turpentine, two-flfths pound; lampblack, one and one-half ounces; powdered graphite, one and one-half ounces ; powdered oxide ol manganese, three-eighths ounce. Mix the linseed oil and varnish well together, to-gether, then add In order, stirring all the time, the lampblack, the graphite and the powdered manganese. As the mixture thickens thin It down with turpentine until the quantity mentioned men-tioned has been used. This mixture should he used as soon as It is mixed, as It dries quickly. Every time the brush is dipped in It should be stirred. It is well to paint the muffler while it Is hot, after having cleaned .'.t thor oughlj. |