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Originally Posted by flood
Well, at least your new gun worked out. But I'm thinking that when you visit the automotive paint store, you will see that the paint price was not so out of line. The enamel reducer (to thin the paint for spraying) comes in different "speeds" to match different temperature conditions: fast (for cold), medium, and slow (for hot).
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I think I paid $36/qt for this CC paint. I paid $15/can for CC rattle cans. That's twice what it's worth. I know our suppliers need to make money, but that's a high markup on paint products, particularly when the labeling is so poor that you can't tell what it is or what to use for cleanup. A professional would never pay that much for this paint, yet you have to know what you are doing to use it. If they are selling to the general public, they need to do a better job with their labeling.
Not knowing what kind of paint it is makes it hard to know what kind of reducer to use. I had bought naptha, which is fairly fast, and mineral spirits, which is slower, since some on the forum had indicated the CC paint was oil-based and that they thinned with mineral spirits, so I could try both and see which was better for the temp/humidity. I only had a just over a half a pint of acetone on hand that I use for cleaning up epoxy. I tried that and it worked, but it turned out it was way too fast as a reducer.
I looked at it this morning and found it isn't a great paint job, but I've seen worse. I'll color sand it and it will be fine until I get a chance in a couple years to really do a restoration, rather than simply a rebuild. At least I can start getting it back together and get it working again.