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Iron Gard rattle can paint job
Hi all- I'm refurbishing a 71 by taking it fully apart, removing the old paint with a knotted wire wheel, priming with self etching primer, and hitting it with IronGard paint in rattle cans. I have been dissapointed to find that after weeks of drying, the paint is still very soft and I can scratch it off with a fingernail. Admittedly, I did all of this work outside in the most humid part of the summer. Have I wasted the paint and my time? Should I move the pieces to a drier environment to cure? Do I just need to be patient?
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I did a project last winter here and was pretty impressed with the Iron
Guard. The difference here is we basically have very little humidity. Except in a rain storm. 50 degrees with low humidity and it worked well. Not sure that helps, but gives a little different experience. I believe I would be patient. There is no way in my opinion you can waste your time working on an Cub. Ken |
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I was very impressed with the Iron Gard yellow in rattle cans. Yellow can be difficult to work with and it took a fair number of coats, but with a good primer and decent-ish technique it laid down really well. Now, that said, I’m in CA, so the humidity is just a little different than in MA… So that may be your issue.
I would agree with letting it bake in the sun for a bit, so long as it’s not so wet that bugs will kamakazi into it.
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Shake it Baby, shake it is probably a good thing.
Then shake it one more time to quote Jerry Lee....... Hard telling how long those cans have been sitting on the shelf somewhere. |
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I used the IronGard IH red on my 782D. It covered and dried OK..The paint was $20 a can from the local dealer.
The genuine Cub Cadet yellow paint I recently used seemed to cover better and dried to a high gloss finish.
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