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Painting plastic white moulded accessories?

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Applying paint to white moulded accessories? Sockets, switches and the like.

Been asked by an interior designer (cushion-thrower) if it would be safe to paint electrical accessories a different colour.

I said I didn't know and would guess that it depended upon the type of paint.

Oil-based enamel? Lacquer solvent-based? Water-based acrylics?

I mentioned that any solvent-based paints may damage the plastic and even undermine any flame-retardant ingredients within.


Comments welcome.
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    I think that a regular smear with brown sauce is unlikely to be on the 'how to maintain your new copper switch' instructions. Mind you, in some household it may happen accidentally often enough.

    looking in more detail at the antimicrobial treatment that crabtee and others use, it seems the metal content is in the form of compounds containing it in any case, not bare metal, and we only need a  few parts per million to be effective.

    And they use silver, which does not have quite the same patina problem.
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    I think that a regular smear with brown sauce is unlikely to be on the 'how to maintain your new copper switch' instructions. Mind you, in some household it may happen accidentally often enough.

    looking in more detail at the antimicrobial treatment that crabtee and others use, it seems the metal content is in the form of compounds containing it in any case, not bare metal, and we only need a  few parts per million to be effective.

    And they use silver, which does not have quite the same patina problem.
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