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Originally Posted by vidjoman
The paint colour is probably due to 'proper' painting. It looks likely that the yellow is Zinc Chromate primer which 'used' to be applied to aluminium and other alloys before applying the top coat. A practice which seems to have been forgotten these days to save production costa.
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Gold was the standard paint colour for B&D drills at one point (sixties?). See photo of an example. Hillwalker's drill was clearly given a coat of red paint at some time in its life. There are still traces of the red overcoat on the chassis plate.
Alan