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Gased Regular Location: Melbourne Registered: May 2002	Re: Acrylic Paint ?????? Mon, 15 July 2002 07:55 I am not a spray painter but have sprayed my car with acrylic Acrylic paint has the following properties..... It is brittle and chips easily, especially stone guard and door edges. It is easy to repair (provided you use non metalic colours. It is easy to apply and dries fast. Once you've gone around the car you can just about start again. It requires many coats for a decent job - too thin and you can cut trough it. 15 coats not uncommon. Some light sanding towards the end is OK to get rid of any crap. You don't need to bake provided the ambient temperature is reasonably warm. It is easy to clean spray equipment. It is not as toxic as two pack (which requires full face force fed ventilator) It is cheap in plain colours (i.e, non-metalic/perl). It polishes well but is soft so be gentle use fine polishing compound You dont need to go back to bare metal. Buy more than is recommended 5/6 litres. Excess will keep well if sealed. I don't know if this is a problem with acrylic and bog vs two pack and bog but I have experienced bog shrinkage with acrylic - this really pissed me off! Good paint jobs depend on good preparation. There is no good cheap preparation. The cost of prep usually outweighs paint (with exception to effects paints - another story). For a decent job all trim needs to be removed. If the paint is a different colour doors will need to be removed and then there's the issue of painting the engine bay. Cheers David [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Acrylic Paint ??????	manipulate	Mon, 15 July 2002 02:23
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	Les	Mon, 15 July 2002 05:37
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	manipulate	Mon, 15 July 2002 05:55
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	RA23_Sean	Mon, 15 July 2002 07:34
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	Gased	Mon, 15 July 2002 07:55
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	manipulate	Wed, 17 July 2002 01:37
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	Cool1	Wed, 17 July 2002 03:24
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	manipulate	Wed, 17 July 2002 03:29
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	Cool1	Wed, 17 July 2002 04:16
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	manipulate	Wed, 17 July 2002 04:19
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	Cool1	Wed, 17 July 2002 04:28
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	celicamad85	Wed, 17 July 2002 06:58
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	manipulate	Wed, 17 July 2002 07:01
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	Allan	Wed, 17 July 2002 07:39
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	TOY77	Wed, 17 July 2002 08:13
	Re: Acrylic Paint ??????	manipulate	Wed, 17 July 2002 12:04
	How to paint a car in acrylic	Gased	Wed, 17 July 2002 15:04

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