I don't paint too much anymore, but I don't buy PPG. It's absurdly overpriced. Of course, if some fool wants to pay for it, I'll use it. K-36 is just high build 2K primer, isn't it? I just buy generic brands. A gallon of primer and catalyst for $64. I just bought a gallon of Eastwood epoxy mixed one to one with the catalyst for about $100.
Being a professional body man and painter doing what you are suggesting is fine if it's on your own stuff and I'm guilty of doing it myself if I've got stuff left over from a job.Paint is expensive and way over priced but If your ever doing a paint job for someone else or a customer and you don't use the same product start to finish and a problem arises ( paint comes off,reacts when shooting, cracks, shine fads you guys get the idea Good luck getting the paint manufacture to stand behind there product and flag you any hours for repair or replacement of the material to fix it.that's there favorite way out what ever product that wasn't there's that's the problem.Doesn't matter if it's right or not that's how they get out of fixing it.I have gotten away with mix matching product many of times,but have also had it come back and haunt me.anytime you are mixing chemicals sh*t can happen
Boy I've shot a lot of nason. I painted them damn ulgy ups brown vans one winter never do that again.lays out like the old centari.Has its own smell to i thinks it's over 50.00 a gallon now.
$hit smells like house paint when you hit it w/ a grinder!
Omni is right there with it....
Reason I am asking about the primer is about 7 years ago I painted my GN with Omni black with Omni clear. Well for the most part of those years the car was a garage queen, till I bought a new house and the car had to sit outside for a year. That 1 year it sat outside ate up the clearcoat on the hood, roof and trunk BAD. The basecoat seems ok but I got to sand all the clear off, so this time around, I am just using something trusted. Painting the same car more than once in a decade sucks!
Did you ever think had you not garaged that car that paint would have went to $hit long before, after only a couple years? Why do you think the primer would be to blame for your clear coat drying out? Also, how you take care of car, washing and waxing, has a lot to do with how well paint holds up. Paint trusted by who? Talk to different people, you get different opinions.
we do a lot of high end stuff so i get to shoot a wide variety of paint glasroot,ppg,house of color and DuPont mostly.at least when I'm doing my own they always give me the materials for free that saves a 1000.00
Unless you're a big, big, customer, they'll use any excuse for a way out because it's all about the money, and truth be told, their product isn't any better than some generic acrylic urethane. They're overpriced $hit pays for sponsorships, commissions, and other bull$hit that doesn't go on the car. Of course, the professional will sell their customer the highest priced products, because, why shouldn't they? Collision customers doesn't know $hit from shinola, and frankly, neither do most "car guys". I understand completely where you're coming from but I'm happy I don't have to put up with any of that $hit, and of course, that's where I'm coming from. I see you do understand their product is "way overpriced". I'm only sorry I ever bought their stuff. They should go broke. Thankfully today there are many affordable products and I don't have to deal with the morons in auto paint supplies with high, unlisted prices on their products because the price goes up every month, without fail.
As an aside, for the uninitiated, I painted my GN with Nason synthetic enamel, the cheapest $hit you could buy ... $32 a gallon plus the cost of activator at the time 7 years ago, and I'll put it up against any PPG painted car.
that's a paint job not a body guy nor a painter used dp90 as my primer on interior and frame used acid etch 1st then dp90 went on smooth and clean
That Nason never heard of it is it single or two stage awsome job but 80% of P-job is prep prep prep what did you do to get those results we would all like to know
Painted my other halfs, pathfinder a few years ago with omni base coat held up like iron smooth clean but the clear coat burned off after a couple years somebody said it didn't have enough uv protectant , haven't used the clear since Currently in off frame restoration of my ttype so very interested in what red t did to get those awsome results