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Priming with future - o.k. under alclad, metalizers, etc.?

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  • From: Chicago, IL
Priming with future - o.k. under alclad, metalizers, etc.?
Posted by jcfay on Friday, November 3, 2006 10:45 PM

(Apologies to anyone reading ARC's forums as this is posted there too...)

I was spraying some future tonight, sealing some painted parts, and had to prime the burner can on my viper. Instead of blowing out the remaining future, and putting in some Mr. Surfacer 1000 or 1200 like I normally use, I said "hey, I think people might sometimes use future as a primer" and I shot what was left as a primer. I wanted to check, however, and make sure that the Alclad and metalizer that I'm going to lay down will stick to the future, and won't also obliterate and melt it in the process.

Does it work very well as a primer in all scenarios?

Thanks all - Jon

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 3, 2006 11:53 PM
Dunno about Alclad, but Future seems to actually work even better than Mr. Surfacer for Testors Metallizer.
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Posted by tho9900 on Friday, November 10, 2006 8:44 PM
Future is all I use for Alclad... their lacquer primer just never seems to dry/cure for me....  several coats to a brilliant gloss shine then the alclad goes on... that's it!
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by Centurion on Saturday, November 11, 2006 2:08 AM
That's interesting. I've never used the Alclad stuff so pardon the naive question, but what you're saying is that you can use future as a base coat and spray that Alclad or other metal paints over it? How exactly do metal paints work? I've read other posts where they say metal paints show all the inperfections and such. Would the base spray of Future combat this? Thanks

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Posted by berny13 on Monday, November 13, 2006 10:21 AM
I always use Future as a primer before I spray any metal based paint.  The secret is several light coats of future.  Just mist it on, let dry and do several mist coats again.  It will fill in very small inperfections bur not deep scratches.  It does make buffing metal paints lay down better. 

Berny

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