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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. | 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. | ||
| − | 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. | + | 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. Lacquers are also "hot" when applied and often attack existing enamel paints, even well cured factory paint. |
While you can paint over a lacquer paint job, the lacquer would likely be the weak part of the paint job. | 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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A Dupli-Color paint job would likely be fairly easy to apply, and look good when completed. However, it will not have the durability of more modern paint coatings. | A Dupli-Color paint job would likely be fairly easy to apply, and look good when completed. However, it will not have the durability of more modern paint coatings. | ||
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| + | You can't directly price compare a quart of Duplicolor to a quart of say, single stage traditional auto paint. Car paint must be "reduced" (like adding paint thinner) before spraying. At about a 50-50 ratio. Therefore a quart of such paint will make two quarts of usable paint. Duplicolor comes "ready to apply". Therefore we can say that it is only half a quart of paint and half reducer. Therefore you'd have to buy two to seemingly equal a quart of single stage paint. To carry it further, it's a fair estimate that you need around a gallon of paint to paint an average car. Plus a gallon of reducer, of course. Painters have noted that it takes quite a bit more lacquer to provide coverage equivalent to that the more usually used automotive paints. So the equivalent amount of Duplicolor needed may well be as much as sixteen quarts. If you want clear coat also that alters the equation a bit but Duplicolor still tends to come out as not such a bargain as it might first appear. | ||
===Oil-based machine paint=== | ===Oil-based machine paint=== | ||
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