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| | | | Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 86 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 86 | Is there a paint hardner that you can add to enamil to make it tuffer. ? | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 |
What brand and line of paints?
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 486 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 486 | If you're talking about equipment enamel like they sell at farm stores, I've seen hardner in some stores for it. When I bought tractor paint at TSC they didn't have any hardner for it and it seemed to stay soft forever. I've been told that the hardner for acrylic enamel will work but I haven't tried it.
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 86 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 86 | I'm useing the enamel you get at the tractor stores. Equipment paint. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 86 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 86 | I got some stuff called Japan Drier by startex. It has petrolium disstilates and naptha salts in it. It drys the paint quicker so it gets harder quicker. Has anyone used this stuff or one like it? thanks | | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | Just go to the local Tractor Supply (or any other place that sells enamel equipment paint) and pick up a can off the shelf. If you still can't find it, PM me and I'll sell you the unopened can I have. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,887 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,887 | Japan drier accelerates drying but there is still a cure time to full hardness - not sure it'll make it "harder" in the end, and usually the enamel tractor paints are about the hardest made anyway .... also, don't use it on any synthetic paint, for oil based enamels and for varnish, which is where it's mostly used
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