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    February 2007
Glossy Paints
Posted by mitsdude on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 9:08 AM

I've noticed that when I spray paint (rattle can) gloss enamels they can sometimes taken as long as a week to dry. They just stay "tacky" for days.  Especially reds and yellow. Any ideas on why and how to speed it up?

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 9:17 AM

I built a drying booth to speed things up. It is a simple box with a 60 watt light bulb in it, with some openings in the top. I put one of those plastic trays on top,- the kind we take our models to shows in-  mounted upside down, as a parts chamber.

Others use food dissicators, but some of those run pretty hot and have warped parts. I put a dimmer in series with the bulb so I could adjust temp.  Turns out that was not needed- wide open the sixty watts runs the chamber at about 105 degrees.

Thinner coats help.  Try several thin coats, sanding between coats.  But controlling gloss and thinness of a rattle can coat is hard.  Last coat still needs to be a bit heavy to get good gloss.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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