Re: Re: paint

[Roland Dudley <cobra@hpcdcsn.cdc.hp.com>]

> 
> Now for the question:
> I keep hearing bits about new types of paint.  Are there any newer better 
>options
> that will allow me the ability to sand out runs & make easy patches to 
>finished paint jobs????

  
This really doesn't address TeriAnn's request for paint recommendations
but it is a paint related comments so I'm tacking it on to the
discussion that I'm sure will result from her question.

A few months ago I asked if there was any paint that was immune to brake
fluid.  I think someone suggested Imron.  Since my fluid reservoirs were
a bit rusty inside, I thought it might be a good idea to coat them with
something once I had gotten the rust out.  Since DP40 seemed to be so
highly regarded, I decided that's what I'd probably use.  But first I
conducted a little experiment.  I took a clevis pin with a coat of Imron
over DP40 primer.  Some of the DP40 was still exposed.  I put the
painted pin in some Castrol LMA DOT4 brake fluid to soak.  By the next
day, the DP40 and Imron had lifted off the clevis pin.  As a result, I
decided to leave the insides of the reservoirs bare metal.  However, I
did use DP40 and Imron on the outsides of the reservoirs.