The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Paint and Body Shop Paint Prices going up???

Ran over and picked up a quart of PPG DP90LF epoxy primer right before supper. Price has gone up a bit since the last time I bought some. Lists now for $55 a quart, I got a real bargain, $50. .......I could get it a little cheaper if I bought a gallon, $162 but I taint gonna use up a whole gallon over the next couple of years and with the short shelf life of this stuff I’d probably end up pitching a hunnert dollars worth in a couple of years.
And that dint include the catalyst.
Seems like the primer's are costing as much as the paint is now.
DG

The last time I got H/K epoxy it was 37 for the one part and 42 for the other, so 79 for two quart kit. It may have gone up $5-10 in the past year...

Denny,
I did a "restore" of my Dad's old Cub tractor last summer and since it's a worker, I went ahead and painted it with PPG's Shopline paint. The epoxy primer and single stage urethane color run at least half the price less than their top of the line stuff. Although I'm no paint expert, I really couldn't tell much of a difference between the Shopline stuff and the DP epoxy and Concept urethane I used on the 51. The Concept color may have a little more solids to it and some other stuff, maybe UV protections and the like, that makes it cost twice as much, but I've used the tractor all summer and I'm really impressed with how well the paint has held up. It sprayed real nice, color sanded and polished up as good as anything I've used, and has been very chip resistant.

Bob

Thanks Bob, glad to see you're still hanging round, you always had a lot of good input for the group here on the Stovebolt. Having seen the detail you put into your restoration I’m glad to hear you’re actually using your dads tractor. Most people that put that level of effort in on a restoration would trailer the Cub to Farm shows rather than put it to work.
Speaking of actually using it, are you actually using the '51 yet???
I've been shooting a few of the pieces for the '50 with DAR Delthane over the DPLF and it really covers nice and is easy to work with. I'll be driving it a lot in the summer so it taint gonna be a show truck. Trying to keep every thing, including the paint application the same as it was from the factory but the sheet metal still has a few wrinkles that could only be hidden by using a leveler, which I taint gonna do. Sooooo, I'd probably be better off in the long run using the Shop line or Omni on it.
I straightened the gravel pan last week as best I could , which had been in an accident many decades ago. I only needed to spray a few ounces of DP90 primer and since it really isn’t a major body part and should be replaced in the future, I decided to try a quickie spray job on it. I had a couple of those pressure can type sprayers a Preval and a Crown Spray-tool in the paint cabinet so instead of using the Devilbiss gun and stringing air hose to the outside I opted to prime it with them. What a mistake that was. I got so much Orange peel in the primer that it looked like, well, you guessed it, Orange peel! Well I went ahead and shot some color on the next morning, I wasn’t about to strip that beat up pan back down and re-do it. So I’ll be driving her around with some, not so peachy looking body work on her, but that way I won’t have to worry bout driving down a gravel road.

Denny G
Sandwich, IL