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JC Daniel

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I have a friend that had me pick him up 5 gallons of Laquer thinner today when I got mine for gun cleaning, He said I use Laquer thinner in my paint and save a lot of money. I said I have a gallon of SPI 870 and 885 that I use in my paint and clear, He said that laquer is all you need for painting. He told me that all you need is lquer thinner to thin down paint, I would never use Laquer in anything I use but boy he sure was aggravated at me for not agreeing with him.
 
Any chance he's over 60? Sounds like a lot of the hard heads that were around when I was starting out. They were all hacks, never wanted to read a TDS, thought they knew it all and their work looked like shit. Stupid is as stupid does. Keep working to a higher standard JC, tune out the dumb ass guys like that.
 
Never mind that refinish grade lacquer thinner isn't even made anymore. All that is really available is wash grade. Hence the term "wash thinner". Refinish grade lacquer thinner is a thing of the past. Ask him why the guys (who do quality work) that still do spray some lacquer use urethane reducer now?
It's one thing to be a dumbass, it's another to try and force your stupidity onto others. :mad: That's probably what I'd tell him if he said it to me. Then wait for him to take a swing at me.:)
 
JC Daniel said:
I have a friend that had me pick him up 5 gallons of Laquer thinner today when I got mine for gun cleaning, He said I use Laquer thinner in my paint and save a lot of money. I said I have a gallon of SPI 870 and 885 that I use in my paint and clear, He said that laquer is all you need for painting. He told me that all you need is lquer thinner to thin down paint, I would never use Laquer in anything I use but boy he sure was aggravated at me for not agreeing with him.
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Curious if you have seen any of his work. How does it look out of the booth?
 
Spilled some in the floor once. Thought I'd let it evaporate. It did, everything except the water or whatever those bubbles were.
 
He is 72 years old, I saw a black truck he painted in October that had a white haze in the clear "he uses upol clear by the way" he wanted me to come and see what I thought. I told him it looked like moisture in the clear but I am not a pro so I was just guessing, could that have been due to the laquer thinner? He really gets aggravated when I disagree with him, he sprays metallic base coat half way through a panel and then sprays the other half. I have tried to help him but he says he can't teach me anything.
 
Don beat me to it .II was going to ask ever see his paint work? I grew up spraying lacquer and never did like it altho you could lay out the finish slick.
 
I went out and checked, the laquer thinner is proform. I get 5 gallons for 50 dollars, I use it to clean guns and cups. My friend said that I could not find one drawback on using laquer thinner, I told him I use SPI euro clear 5000 and it calls for reducer and asked him what he would do, he said he would use lacuer thinner in it too. What should I respond to him?
 
Not to hijack this thread, but the OP made me think back to my Navy days.
My work center team was painting our topside equipment in standard Navy haze grey.
Senior Chief Boatswains Mate came along and saw us. He sent us to the galley to get a couple dozen eggs and had us add egg whites to the paint.
Surprisingly, the paint did have a nice sheen and never peeled off.
The old salt was right in this case.

But, I wouldn't reduce my auto paint with anything but SPI quality reducer, that's just asking for trouble.
 
Why are you even worrying what this guy says or what he tells you? Like I thought he is from that era and there were a lot of guys who thought reading the TDS or listening to what the manufacturer says is for sissies. "This is how I've always done it" I though most of them were gone but you definitely found one.

Ignore him. If you have to be around him, just go "OK I'll do that next time," then keep on doing what you are doing.
 
JC Daniel said:
I was hoping someone would respond about the hazy clear, I have saw his base coat before clear and it looks grainy to me.
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I'm guessing it has moisture locked into it from using lacquer on a humid day. I used to work in the late 70's making steel and copper caskets. They all got sprayed with lacquer clears. There were days where you just didn't paint as it was too hot and humid, and milky clear was all you would get if you tried.
 
There was an old counter guy at one of the local paint and body supply stores who regularly told customers to add lacquer thinner to speed up the drying of acrylic enamel. Fortunately, he's now retired.
 
metlmunchr said:
There was an old counter guy at one of the local paint and body supply stores who regularly told customers to add lacquer thinner to speed up the drying of acrylic enamel. Fortunately, he's now retired.
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When I was a kid, I went with my dad to a friends garage where they were about to paint a Mustang. It was in the winter, and they had the wood stove burning hot with 2 open cans of paint sitting on top. They said they didn't have enough of the acrylic enamel to paint the complete car, so they were heating up some synthetic enamel they had as well as the acrylic, so that when they mixed them together it wouldn't instantly turn to cottage cheese. We didn't stay to see them paint it, but I saw the car for several years after, and it came out fine. I was around 10, but I seem to remember it being a 67 KR500, I remember the wide scoop.
 
Not sure why he is concerned with how you do your stuff...Usually when people tell me anything that I don't agree with but really don't feel like getting into any type of debate I use the same response - "Oh no shit! That's pretty cool" You may need to adjust it depending on the topic, but its pretty universal!
 
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