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BIN Primer is making me nervous

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  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Virginia
Posted by Wingman_kz on Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:44 PM

I tried it several years ago on someone's recommendation and to be blunt, I thought it sucked. I tried thinning with the different % iso alcohols and denatured alcohol and no matter what I did I couldn't get a smooth surface. It wasn't orange peel, it was more like sand textured paint. After it cured it was very hard on the surface and difficult to sand. Once you broke through the surface layer it was chalky. Maybe it was just me. I experimented with it quite a bit but gave up. If you do try it, clean up with alcohol or lacquer thinner. I didn't have any trouble getting it out of the brush.

Tony

            

  • Member since
    December 2010
BIN Primer is making me nervous
Posted by BlakeyB on Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:28 AM

Ok guys after reading around I picked up some BIN primer

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xqd/R-100398380/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

Supposedly it is an amazing primer on plastic since it completely wipes out any bleed through of the molded plastic.

Questions

Should I thin this out from the can?  Normally before I shoot any acrylic through my gravity fed eclipse I thin it with 91% alchohol.  Now I believe this is Shellac based.  I tried thining it in a test container with the alchohol and it thinned fine.  I then wiped out the container and went to my sink and attempted to wash out the remaining film with water

Yowser!!!

The stuff coagulated like blood.  Almost into a rubber like substance.

So now I am nervous to put it through my nice brush.  

Anyone have any experience with this?

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