/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Forgive my ignorance, but can someone explain the difference between the types of paint, like acrylic, enamel etc?

I work in a car accesories shop and people ask me about caliper paint and wheel paint and vinyl paint and i dont know shit. The sad part is i know the most in my shop.

Ooh, I am in need of some advice, actually.

Chrome spraypaint-- what's the best brand for it? Am I gonna get a real shiny finish or is it gonna be dull and crappy? Should I apply it thicker than normal sprays?

>>27435
simple
>acrylic is water based paint
> enamel is oil based paint

>>27435
Acrylics is water-based polymer. Vinyl is vinyl, everything else is oil based.
Oil and water, what do they do when in contact with one another? Oil floats to the top, of course. This is why you dont paint acrylic over oil based paints.

>>27435
>Forgive my ignorance, but can someone explain the difference between the types of paint
Well the argument is quite vast. A first dinstinction can be done between
>waterbourne paint (acrylic) and
>solvent based
the most popular among solvent based are Nitro based.

Generally a paintwork is done by these "components":
>primer coat
its role is to create a strong paintable surface on the object, it must have eccellent adhesion to the specific material and once dried the paint just stick on it like a charm
>the actual paintjob
that is (are) the color and all the aesthetic embellements like metalized particles, airbrushing, metal flakes etc.
the paintjob role is to look good, but it seldom have the mechanical strenght to survive athmospheric agents or mechanical stresses; so it comes
>the clearcoat that has the double role to render a smooth surface (that may be gloss or matte) and to provide protection from UV rays, mechanical stresses (a scratch that only affects the clearcoat can be easily repaired) and atmospheric agent.

Every kind of the above elements have their own array of chemical technologies that the market puts out to fullfill specific needs

pic: bicomponent epoxy primer

>>27407
Antisilicon detergent?

when I was little I had a toy airbrish kit thing that you had to pump up by hand. basically it used regular colored markers that had a hole punched in the felt tip, so the nozzle would spray though picking up the ink along the way :3

i sprayed a pea-sized dot on the cellar floor and my dad took it away :<

>>27543
not op but, something to get traces left off the surface, paint stripper or such

>>27543
well translating tech term is a pain.
This shit anyway, either spary or non spray.
It's Naphthenic (cycloparaffinic) spirit.

it is meant to avoid this shit

I've got a friend who was trying to spray-paint a resin helmet. She put down two layers of primer, then put down a layer of red acrylic. The red paint bubbled in a couple of areas, mostly near the edges. We assumed that she didn't put down enough primer, and that the bubbling is a reaction between the red paint and the resin. Is this right, or is there a chance the bubbling is from low-quality paint?

first off .. if you're wiping down after sanding you typically use cheap-o reducer for the same system you're spraying.

Anywho .. sprayguns are used for everything from painting cars to staining decks .. what materials are you spraying (multistage automotive finishes, latex exterior paints, etc.) and with what equipment (HVLP, airless, etc.)

>>27836
>>27841

YOU SHITEATING FAGGOT. WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL THAT TO ME EARLIER?!

Just joking. Thanks for info; I've always wondered why spray paint often doesn't like to stick to my carefully sanded surfaces.

Does it count, that I spray-can-painted my car a few years ago in flat black?

And yeah, the license plate says "AC-47" on purpose

>>27897
shitty car and shitty stickers but i do like the flat black

>>27841
...O...C...D..
OUT OF CONTROL..

ANON MAD.
FIX PAINT MISSUH OR I PUNCH U SKUL

>>27907
Don´t know, I like the idea with the noseart and the jap.kill markings.
And it´s a Peugeot 106, pretty common in Europe

But if the guy really painted it with cans, I´d say: like a baws!

>>27944
I indeed painted it with cans.

I used ~12 500ml cans.

I did the job from part to part:

First I sanded the fender, washed it and when it was dry, I applied the paint. Then the doors and so on.

Took one day til it was finished. The car used to be glossy black befor so I didn´t have to paint the engine compartement