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Ok I know I haven't been on a lot lately, However here is something I have found that many of you may want to try out.
A Paint that's made for Pinstriping, I have tried others and I am not here to bash them, this stuff is so good after 27 years of using the OLD ENAMEL, in just 2 days of using this I removed the Enamel for my truck and tossed it in the basement.
DuPont just released the "Hot Hues Pinstripe Efx" line of striping urethane, I had the pleasure of test driving this product since June 2007.
It does need to be acctivated with Isocyanate, and I acctivate if I am going under clear also, The gloss over clear is great, and it covers really well, the in the cup working time is around 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours, However the dry time in a film on the car surface is around 5-10 minutes. You can remove the dry paint during the first hour or 2 with just "wax and grease remover" "bodyprep" very simply.
A very small amount of paint is all that is needed, 1/4 of what you were using with the OLD ENAMEL and perhaps less then that. I use 1/8oz to stripe a double line around a car, with no reducer or sometimes 1 drop, it pulls that clean of a line.
I have done Boat lettering, Truck lettering with Graphic componets, 50 style scroll work, Pictorials, I think I tested it on any type of painting that we as Sign People do, except spray. And I don't spray anything not even my hair.
Yesterday it was raining a customer met me at the dealership, I dried the car, striped it, 5 minutes later the customer was driving away in the rain, ohh and it was a red and black stripe, dry in 5 minutes with 120% humidity.
Removal is the tricky part. I had a customer turn in a car after only owning it for 2 weeks, the Monograms I put on the doors, Laq thinner started to melt the Toyota factory paint and the Monos didn't budge, wet sand and polish to remove.
Check this stuff out, I am not a paid rep. just a test drive dumby.
DeWayne Connot
ohh my e-mail is changed the new server is verizon. I will try to change that also. in my bio page
-------------------- DeWayne Connot DOA Flatliners Pinstriping To Die For! Northwales, Pa dconnot@verizon.net Posts: 28 | From: Northwales, PA | Registered: Jan 2004
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I've heard nothing but great things about this line of paint. We will probably be coverting all out urethanes over to Dupont.
"Removal is the tricky part. I had a customer turn in a car after only owning it for 2 weeks, the Monograms I put on the doors, Laq thinner started to melt the Toyota factory paint and the Monos didn't budge, wet sand and polish to remove."
This is the only downside to the use of urethane...it STICKS!!! We lost a big account over the fact that the stripes can not be easily removed from a car. We've worked with three different brands and they all work the same in regards to the amount of catalyst you add. I would imagine Dupont is the same. Without catalyst, they dry flatter and much faster. They can be removed easily with lacquer thinner. The more catalyst you add the slower the dry time and the more impervious they become to removal with lacquer thinner. For monograms cut way way back on the amount of catalyst, like maybe just a drop. It'll still gloss up and stick well enough that it won't easily chip off, but lacquer thinner will take it off without hurting the factory paint. It WILL set up a lot faster too.
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Good to hear from you, DeWayne. I'm interested. I've been using HOK with the catalyst since the mid-90's with excellent results, but I would love to rid the shop of ISO's.
Of course with any new product there's a question of longevity and HOK has proven that fact, so I would be taking a chance, but I took a chance on HOK. I put up with the ISO's because I was fed up with the poor performance of the traditional enamels and fading of colors. I was actually steering customers away from reds (especially maroon) because of the rapid fading. With HOK these colors and silver and metallic gold last and last.
So how do we get this product.
By the way I would think that mistakes could be removed with rubbing alcohol just like it is with HOK and many other urethanes ... if you wanted to give that a try. I like rubbing alcohol because it evaporates quickly and especially with fiberglass parts like semi tractor fenders -- it kills static electricity.
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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Just talk to any DuPont paint dealer, they can order the Hot Hues Efx, it was just released 2 weeks ago so it is very new to the dealers also
-------------------- DeWayne Connot DOA Flatliners Pinstriping To Die For! Northwales, Pa dconnot@verizon.net Posts: 28 | From: Northwales, PA | Registered: Jan 2004
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DeWayne I know it must have been an interesting thread but the writing was so small I couldn't read it!
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The first time I saw DeWayne was at Kenlake and he spotted me starring at one of his little paintings -- I think it was the walldog meet logo. He said, "Here, you might need these," and presented me with a magnifying glass.
When I still couldn't make out what it was, he said I might need to use the super magnifying glass which was a seperate lens on the side.
I have a stripe panel by Dave the Letterman going into the office john. DeWayne wrote, "you are here..." in the middle of one of the stripes.
I love things like that.
If you are having a boring day with the relatives around the holidays, you can have some fun by getting sheets of paper out and some sharp pencils to see who can write their names the smallest.
The first time they try it, you can easily read it with the naked eye, but after they see how small you can get, they'll give it a second and third try. Pretty soon ... you better have a magnifying glass nearby. It's fun.
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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