Glasurit 22?

[Mully]

Glasurit 22
I am wondering if anyone has used this product line and what your comments and words of wisdom might be if you have. I have a hvlp gravy feed gun and am preping to change color of a spoiler I purchased!!

[Formerly Steve Wilkinson]

I used it to paint my car--I'm not quite finished, in fact, since I'm doing it panel by panel and left the rear fenders to do after I got the engine back in, which is now the case--and I love it. It's expensive--$5.60 a gallon including the necessary reducer and hardener--but the beauty of it is that 1/it's very strong and flexible, and 2/you can hardly make a mistake bad enough that it can't be sanded out, since the paint in fact requires sanding and rubbing out to finish it. And if the mistake is that bad, sand it off and respray that part. I painted some of my car in a dusty barn, some in the grassy barnyard (lots of bugs, but you just sand 'em out if they land on the paint before it tack-frees and am about to do the rear fenders in the driveway. I feel Glasurit 22 is teh perfect paint for the bodywork moron, which I am, having never before painted a car in my life.

Stephan

[campbellcj]

That's what both of my cars were painted with. I didn't do (that part of) the work myself so can't comment on how easy/hard it is to work with, etc. But the results were stunning.

Stephen - I'm assuming the $5.60/gal is a typo??? Hell, that's barely more than some of the fru-fru bottled water they sell here in So Cal.

Cheers,

Chris C.
73 914 2.0
70 911E Targa
campbell.chris@gte.net

[This message has been edited by campbellcj (edited 08-13-2001).]

[Two Oh]

Originally posted by Mully:
Glasurit 22
I am wondering if anyone has used this product line and what your comments and words of wisdom might be if you have. I have a hvlp gravy feed gun and am preping to change color of a spoiler I purchased!!

Mully, Where might I purchase this Glasurit paint?

[Two Oh]

in fact, since I'm doing it panel by panel and left the rear fenders to do after I got the engine back in

Be carefull painting panel by panel.
I painted a 100/4 panel by panel years ago and some of the panel colors did not match up. Cause: inaccurate mixing of paint and differant outside temperature on differant days.

I must say I ADMIRE anyone who paints there own car.

Can't paint your car in your garage here in San Francisco. EPA will lock you up.

My daughters boy freind was painting a truck tailgate with the garage door open, his neighbors got sick and tired of the smell, ratted him out. He was fined a total $3000.00. They fined him $25.00 for every rag he had lying around.

[Doug Zielke]

Originally posted by Two Oh:

Can't paint your car in your garage here in San Francisco. EPA will lock you up.
My daughters boy freind was painting a truck tailgate with the garage door open, his neighbors got sick and tired of the smell, ratted him out. He was fined a total $3000.00. They fined him $25.00 for every rag he had lying around.

Amazing, but very true I'm sure.
That's why the chemistry of paint has changed so much. Lacquer and other solvents are now considered a threat to the environment.
Even certain pigments are getting banned.
Around here, body paint suppliers are not allowed to sell product to anyone not in an actual business.

Guys in our club with newer Porsches, are complaining about the "soft" paint. No wonder...much of it is water based!

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'81 SC Coupe (aka: "Blue Bomber")
Canada West Region PCA
The Blue Bomber's Website

[This message has been edited by Doug Zielke (edited 08-13-2001).]

[RoninLB]

MULLL......have never shot Glasurit. European metalics are more beautiful than US brands IMHO. I wouldn't shoot a car in metalic in sections at home, too many variables to cordinate IMHO. If you are shooting a solid color, thats another story. We do have great mfg. in US. I ordered Ruby Red, stock color on 356 concours winner, to be applied to a new $370,000 fire truck. Sherwin-Williams has it in their computer[available at any S-W supplier] as Long Beach Fire Dept Ruby Red. It's perfect, anyway, european clears are to weak for me IMHO. Tough, acid rain resistant, fuel resistant, etc. clears [also wet looking & beautiful]are here in US as polyurethane, not acrylic urethane. Poly has longer molecular chain, which means strong. Therefore, IMHO, solids are easy to do a car in sections, are easy to blend after fender bender, easy to sand debris from. Are easy to fake a very proffesional job. I prep for final coat w/1000 wet& dry, then shoot final coat thinned 50%, then only polish out dust, when they ask, "how did you ever do that" say MAGIC, don't ever tell them........Ron

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RoninLB

[Formerly Steve Wilkinson]

Yes, the $5.60 a gallon is a typo. Meant to say $560.00 a gallon. And as for the problems painting panel by panel, it's considerably lessened, if not eliminated, by using a light, basic color, like yellow (which I did). Would never do it panel by panel with a metallic, say.

Stephan

[Mully]

I will be painting the paint code(700) black
color non metalic. Will this be ok if I do a panel by panel job??

[Formerly Steve Wilkinson]

I would certainly think so. The problems with panel-by-panel painting, as far as I know, arise when you paint the panels with considerable time between shoots, and with different paint batches and mixes used. What I basically mean when I say I painted my SC "panel by panel" is not that I did a panel every few months but that I totally disassembled the car and maybe did the doors and hood one day, then the next day did a bunch of small parts (mirrors, headlamp rings, etc.) then a few days later shot the front fenders, etc. etc. Rather than doing the entire car in one huge shoot. Which requires a lot of work, planning and professionalism, frankly. So I was working from the same can of paint, the same basic climatic conditions, etc. And as for black, I should think it would be difficult to mix it any way but black; hard to imagine shades of black.

Be aware, though, that black under bright light is the one color that will most vividly reveal even the tiniest faults in your bodywork or prep, just as white is the color that will hide just about anything short of an actual dent.

Stephan