Does RM have a lime green epoxy or etching primer?

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Brad J.

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Doing some repair on a special car that got some trailer damage. It has a lime green colored primer that I know isn't variprime etching primer. This stuff is colored like a lime green chrysler. It has the green primer followed up by some featherfill looking stuff with a yellow 2k urethane primer. I do know the topcoat system was RM so I'm thinking the underlayment might be RM also.

I've sanded the repair areas down to bare and feathered all the filler but I'm trying to decide if I want to spray epoxy over it wondering if it might be an etch or just go to filler.

It's a shame as the finish on the car is crawling all over the place. It was restored less than 10 years ago and probably a lot sooner, just can't remember. Loaded with poly filler. Rediculous as each damaged part is loaded poly and cracked wherever the damage is.

I'd love to seal it with epoxy but I might play it safe and use filler and then epoxy over the finished filler.
 
Nothing wrong with polyester primer if it's applied over a good epoxy primer, show us some pics
 
RM's epoxy ep series, 589, 689, and 789. I can't remember which one is the gray, but it's not really gray more of a lime green color. Glasurit 801-1871 was lime green but may be difficult to locate, as it's been discontinued, along with de49 from RM.
 
Thanks, Dan. It probably is an epoxy as it's on the steel, poly fill, some more epoxy and then a 2k followed by color. I ended up brush painting all of the bare steel but not touching the lime green. I'll do filler work over that and call it good.

Poly primer might be good stuff but it's no replacement for a good pick and file job. There isn't any reason for as much filler as their is on these areas. Not what I'd do on a one off special car. Maybe a cheap quick job on a pickup
 
Sounds like probably an epoxy primer.. I know matrix sells a green epoxy primer.. Im sure someone else does also..
 
I just soon not disclose the car as it's an ex Pebble Beach best of class and I don't want to spread anything bad about the car or resto shop on the net. How thick do you guys spray your poly fill? 1/8" to much? A knife just seems to cut through the filler to easy like it is kinda soft compared to the platinum plus I use.
 
sounds like your primer is the old sikkens ep that was used a few years ago (has since changed for the bad )at alot of restoration shops It was used around here in ont canada for years .
 
Good or bad the job is done now. I'm terrible about getting pics. Seems like the camera is in the shop or the house and laptop is never with the camera. That and last time I couldn't figure out how to download them. I'm a computer tard. If it wasn't for the research capablities and sites like this one I wouldn't own one.
 
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