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RE: Imron paint

To: "'LGMCAFEE@aol.com'" <LGMCAFEE@aol.com>, land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Imron paint
From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:22:37 -0500
Larry;

The 1999 VOC regulations have torpedoed lots of the best existing paints and
they are either now modified or off the market.

I just checked with Lord Corporation about my old favorite polyisocyanate
urethane paint, Chemglaze A & Chemglaze Z but they discontinued that line.
Too bad, it was the best stuff I ever used-- hard, tuff, flexible, and
glossy. It was originally made for high performance aircraft, locomotives,
tank trucks, or anything else that required a tough, chemically resistant
coating.

I recently coated my new workshop floor with an industrial urethane coating
from Sherwin-Williams and it looks alot like the old Chemglaze-- a nice,
hard, glossy YELLOW! I got tired of the gray floors that I've always had in
my garages. I wonder if this stuff could be painted on a chassis?

I also wonder if Dupont reformulated Imron or if they just had a few batches
with problems? Their technical people are usually pretty helpful.

Regards, Neil     Tucson, AZ


-----Original Message-----
From: LGMCAFEE@aol.com [mailto:LGMCAFEE@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 9:43 AM
To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Imron paint


I have used DuPont Imron for years on frames and such with no problems at
all 
until recently. I mix the activator and paint and started painting and it 
looked like a lot of air bubbles on the surface. The activator was about a 1

year old and kind of thick so I went to the paint store and bought new 
activator, mixed it and it worked like it should. Yesterday I mixed the 
activator which was now about a month old with new paint and had some small 
bubbles again on some parts of the inner fenders that I was painting and
also 
it had some lines in it like checking when it dried. I have always used 
DuPont's self etching primmer with no problems. I know they have took out
the 
lead in the new imron maybe it just isn't as good anymore. Has anybody on
the 
list had any similar problems. At $100.00 a quart with activator I'm about 
done with this paint!!!  Larry Mac

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