Painting Experts: Chassis Paint Questions
12-16-2017, 02:06 AM
#16
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While it may be possible to get a nitro-cellulose lacquer in Oman, or some other esoteric locations, it will not be found in the US for auto paints(VOC restrictions, EPA, etc). It will be acrylic lacquer in the US. However, if one wants nitro-cellulose lacquer, it can be bought from musical instrument refinishers, usually in pint, or maybe quart sizes at some kind of huge price. Also, the correct reducer/thinner must be used because nitro-cellulose lacquer cannot be thinned with acrylic lacquer and vice versa. I would avoid nitro-cellulose products unless one is an expert at instrument refinishing.
The question in my mind relative to Dave's original query was whether acrylics can be painted over cellulose finishes. I know one has to be very careful when using cellulose over other paint finishes as the cellulose tends to react with whatever else is present but I have a feeling that acrylic based paints can be applied over cellulose systems.
Whatever Uncle Sam's EPA comes up with the rest of the world invariably ends up stuck with it be it for better [mostly] or worse but invariably there is a lead lag of about 10 years. I find it ironic for instance that you chaps can still manage to get your hands on R12 refrigerant whereas I cannot get the stuff over here now but I could until a few years ago. The thing is Governments in smaller countries do not have the budgets that bigger countries do to determine whether what they are being told is something appropriate or a bag of poo so they tend to follow the crowd when the consensus reaches a critical mass as it were.
