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Hey guys, has anyone on here painted their car with water based paint? I am thinking of painting my Sandman with water based paint and clear coating it with 2 pak. Just wondering how water based paint holds up over time?
I have bought some and am painting a hard hat with it at the moment as a trial. It sprays really well, gives a nice finish and is a breeze to clean out guns and pots. Very impressed so far.
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What brand water base paint? Dulux Aquabase? Are you using the recommended water based thinner? Recommended application techniques, temperature, etc. There will be manufacturer recommended topcoat clear. Are you using the complete combined recommended sys |
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what about solar guard uv exterior paint ?
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Sorry guys, should have mentioned it is Auto Air water based automotive paint. It is a complete system and compatable with most other automotive paint systems. You apply any of the normal primers and then spray the Auto Air base coat sealer over it and th
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I thought it sounded strange !lol
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So nobody knows about or has used water based automotive paint? I only recently found out about it but it has been available since 1975 and is big in the US and European countries. It is available in Australia and the beauty of it being water based is it
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dulux aquabase came out here in the mid to late nineties, around 97 i think. i was in one of the first shops to use it. it was expensive and we were still evaluating it and only the foreman was spraying it at the time, but there werent any problems that i
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Do you use a 2 pack undercoat or etch to keep the H20 away from porous base coats (and hence bare metal)?
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from memory they used a WOW sealer over your standard 2k undercoats
they also installed a whole lot of little air jets in the booth, because you have to blow away the saturated air for it to dry properly
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Cool. Sounds like good stuff.
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Byron, the recommendation is to etch prime or undercoat with 2 pak, then apply Auto Air basecoat sealer, apply any Auto Air colours or combination of colours (graphics) and then 2 pak clear as a top coat. The beauty of water based colour is not being solv
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Ford Australia have been using water based paints on Falcons for about 10 years now.
The main drawback is that everything must be kept at a constant temperature (27 degrees c from memory) to get that great finish.
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Byron, the recommendation is to etch prime or undercoat with 2 pak, then apply Auto Air baEdited by user Thursday, 5 March 2009 8:41:59 PM(UTC)
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the issue isnt toxicity, its VOCs and although the waterborne paints still contain some VOCs the levels are much lower. so when used by manufacturers the effect on VOC emission is substantial
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