Stuart Bollen wrote:
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> Anyone knowledgeable about DuPont Centauri acrylic enamel?
Yes, I use it most of the time (just shot some today, in fact)
I just bought a
> pint for touching up under the hood. Minimum thinners I could buy was a
> gallon for $25, so I turned down the $34 hardener, since this is an airbrush
> 25cc type job.
Those prices seem a little high, the hardener should be no more than
thirty dollars a pint, and reducer about twenty a gallon.
The dealer told me it would be 30 days before the paint was
> hard enough to polish out. Is this true, as I want to reinstall the
> accessories before I forget where everything goes!
Yes thirty days before waxing. This is so the paint can "fully cure"
before it is "sealed" up with the wax. I have compounded painted sur-
faces the next day after painting (with hardener) with no ill effects,
though. Why is it you must wax this freshly painted area?
Also, altough it would have increased the total price of the job, the
hardener would yeild a much more durable painted surface to the harsh
under-hood conditions. But acrylic enamel is tuff stuff anyway, it's
just that it may not shine for as long now.
JOE IV
TR 250
WALLINGFORD, CT. USA
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