At 03:42 PM 11/4/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>Its been a while since I have painted anything, but have prices gotten out
>of hand, or is my local paint place charging too much???.....
Barry,
Welcome to sticker shock! I remember paying $3.60 a gal for 3602 lacquer
thinner. It's about $20 / gal.
>I wanted to find out what would be a good primer for a large project that
>would be done in several stages, over several months. I told him that I
>would be replacing some with new sheet metal in a hard to reach area, and
>that I wanted some corrosion protection, fair sand-ability, and that if
>left unfinished coated, that is bare primer, that I would have some
>protection from rust or corrosion until several months later when The
>rest of the project would catch up to it and would be painted.
He told you right, epoxy primer (grey) or polyeurathine primer. It is
totally water proof. You can prime the car, leave it out in the weather
for months and then just wash it, scuff it, and put on color.
I'm in the middle of doing the same thing with 2 of my Chrysler mini vans.
Starting with the roof. Stripping, priming with polyeurathine then
eventually painting the color coats.
I know of one car done in a polyeurathine that sat for 5 yrs before it
was top coated.
end part 1
John
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