[Healeys] paints

john spaur jmsdarch at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jan 28 21:19:49 MST 2013


There is probably more to hardness and chip resistance that just the 
type of paint. When Healey's were factory painted I would presume the 
paint was applied over primed metal with very little, if any, bondo 
or whatever product they used to smooth over minor dings. Most likely lead.

The restorers that I am familiar with want to coat the metal with a 
polyester product similar to bondo. I think that material is very 
soft. So the material under the paint can affect overall hardness of 
the finish.

John

At 10:20 AM 1/28/2013 -0500, warthodson at aol.com wrote:
>Not much about hardness/chip resistance. Recently, I saw a frame being painted
>black with Dupont Imron which I read is a polyester enamel, what ever that is.
>It looked beautiful. I was told it was chosen because it is very hard/chip
>resistant. Comments?
>Thanks,
>Gary


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