John Long
Member
That is a good thought Slofut. If you need to check Elwood, take just a little lacquer thinner on a rag and wipe a spot that is out of sight. Lacquer thinner will desolve the lacquer if that is what it is.
Side note, Lacquer used thinner. Enamels and 2k products use reducer. The difference is thinner does just that. It just thins the material for spraying and then evaporates out of it leaving the paint behind. Reducer contributes chemicaly to the product and a certain portion remains as part of the paint.
This is one reason why lacquer failed so often. Guys would load it on and when the thinner evaporated out of it, it would crack like the mud in a dry lake bed.
John
Side note, Lacquer used thinner. Enamels and 2k products use reducer. The difference is thinner does just that. It just thins the material for spraying and then evaporates out of it leaving the paint behind. Reducer contributes chemicaly to the product and a certain portion remains as part of the paint.
This is one reason why lacquer failed so often. Guys would load it on and when the thinner evaporated out of it, it would crack like the mud in a dry lake bed.
John