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Acrylic paint fire hazard?

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    December 2008
Acrylic paint fire hazard?
Posted by thespaniard180 on Thursday, January 8, 2009 10:58 AM

I'm making a very rough painting and drying booth and I think I'm going to need some ventilation for my acrylic paint airbrushing.

From my searching on this website and reading the label of my Testors MM acrylics, these acrylic paints are NOT flammable.  As for the thinner, paint cleaner, etc. that may be another story...

So assuming I only use Testors MM acrylics (and don't have it thinned, don't use enamels, etc.), I don't need to worry about a fire risk, do I?  Whether it be from an arcing motor in my fan, using my mini blowtorch, etc. 

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Thursday, January 8, 2009 2:14 PM

No they are not flammable unless you are thinning them with alcohol or something flammable for thinning to airbrush with them.

They almost always need some thinning though so you need to think about that aspect unless you can get away with straight water which I had no luck with. 

Those paints are tough to get spraying reliably through an airbrush no matter what you do in my past experience with them before switching to Tamiya. 

 

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  • From: Left forever
Posted by Bgrigg on Thursday, January 8, 2009 3:15 PM

I'm not sure if that's true, but I don't use Testors, I use Tamiya, and they have a fire hazard sign on their label.

Certainly if you are adding alcohol (and that includes Windex and Windshield Washer Fluid), it ups the fire risk.

Which in reality is quite small, however I do recommend that if you are making your own booth to find an non-sparking fan!

So long folks!

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