Cheapo paint job
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All in all my paint job cost me $600 and it began to flake off one year later. I will never visit a Maaco again. | All in all my paint job cost me $600 and it began to flake off one year later. I will never visit a Maaco again. | ||
| − | === | + | ===Dupli-Color=== |
| − | + | Dupli-Color is a lacquer paint product being sold by Sherwin Williams. It's marketed to the lower end of the skill and experience spectrum, as an easy-to-apply and inexpensive option for hobbyists. | |
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| + | Lacquers are the other "family" of paint products (the primary choice being enamels). While lacquer paints used to be commonly used, they have given way to the more modern enamels. | ||
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| + | Lacquers literally "dry" -- the solvent evaporates. For this reason, lacquers will re-dissolve in their original solvent. By comparison, enamels "cure" by chemical reaction. If you apply lacquer thinner to a lacquer paint job, the paint will become a liquid again. Other solvents can have the same effect. Lacquers also have minimal UV protection. | ||
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| + | While you can paint over a lacquer paint job, the lacquer would likely be the weak part of the paint job. | ||
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| + | Dupli-Color describes lacquer as "durable", and enamels as "very durable". This is, at best, a generous description, and at odds with what professionals are saying. Marketing aside, lacquer paints are not considered durable. | ||
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| + | A Dupli-Color paint job would likely be fairly easy to apply, and look good when completed. However, it simply wouldn't last very long. | ||
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