waterborn paints, here they come, like it or not, comeing to Canada, and California Options

[pete-stevers]

I have been informed by my lordco paint rep that at the end of the year, we will no longer be able to buy solvent based auto paint, and we will be forced to switch to waterborn paints which require a ubber spensive cross draft booths, not to mention all the solvent paint guns will be obsolete....
basicaly killing any hobbiest paint operations...like me
any thoughts or ideas???
it is to implemented here in Can and Cal.

[charliew]

My friends new spraybooth is almost like riding a motorcycle it's so windy. It's heated and windy. I would think the waterborne paints could be shot thinner and with more coats if you are a hobbiest.

My first job as a painter was spraying porcelain on a moving convair line, porcelain was ground colored glass mixed with water. My job before painting was the paint mixer. It was called the mill room. The porcelain was mixed in huge 500, 1000, and 1500, and 2000 lb. tumblers/grinders. The painters each had 80 gallon pots and usually used three pots a shift. I actually developed my right side more than the left. Sometimes we worked two shifts. If a panel got runs or trash in it or someone mishandled it, someone just took it off the hangers and swept it down with a broom and put it back on the line and we repainted it. The oven was part of the line and the heat even in the winter was enough to dry the porcelain in about three to five minutes, We were spraying and the oven was on the other side of the room. We each were infront of a three sided enclosure with big exhaust fans to pull most of the mist away from each painter. There were two on the good side and one painter on the back side. If the convair ever stopped the parts in the oven would be ruined. The overhead convair was a big oval, The room was about 280 feet by 100 feet and the oven was about 150 feet long. The parts would be dark red in the center. Some of the panels were 16 feet long by about 18 inches wide with 5 inch sides and interlocking flanges. These were filling station roof panels. The stations had lifetime warranty's on the panels. The whole station was sheeted with these porcelain panels. We were painting mild steel and never had a problem with rust of any kind. 1964, 1.50 a hour.

I was thinking the chev. trucks that all peeled were the first attempt at painting with waterborne top coats over regular primer.

I have used autoair on motorcycle tanks. You can try something and if you don't like it just wipe it off with a damp cloth but you better also resand it with 4 or 600 to make sure nothing is left in the paint scratches or it will show up when you get out in the sun after it's been cleared. Not a happy situation to have ghost skulls were you don't expect them.

I'm not sure if the waterborne paints are as durable in the sun as the old stuff.