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| reptileink:
--- Quote from: DrFrag on July 07, 2010, 03:36:55 pm ---I had that happen on a project after rushing the second coat. Someone told me a few years earlier that if the first coat isn't fully dry, the second coat will be tacky and never dry properly. Never's a long time, so I sanded it back and started again. :-\ Wouldn't hurt to experiment with a sealer or whatever. --- End quote --- As in fully sanded down, or just sanded the top coat??? I'd really hate to have to strip all this paint off. Maybe after my cookout I will attempt it. It's not really bad, and I don't expect everyone to be touching the sides and whatnot. But you could defiantly pull of some paint if you rubbed it hard enough. |
| gryhnd:
Having grown up with a paint chemist (my dad), I can tell you that he pretty much would say this: if you didn't rough up (sand) the surface and then prime it, your paint is not going to be provided a proper base for adhesion. Roughing up is assuming this is going on your typical smooth surface laminate. I just tried calling him to confirm, but he's in a restaurant or bar somewhere right now :cheers: |
| Grasshopper:
You have my sympathy. I learnt the hard way that some cheap paints never dry properly. I painted the sides of my control panel with some crappy black paint (described as enamel) that I bought from a DIY store and now, several years later, I could still easily mark it with a fingernail if I wanted to. The moral of this story is don't buy cheap paint as you'll regret it in the long run. Also, make sure that whatever paint you buy, you test it first on a scrap piece of wood. |
| YoGaBaR:
I have had a sticky problem before. I had a super pacman I restored. sanded and primed. I had it set in a garage for almost 3 weeks with an air conditioner running the whole time. had a dehumidifyer. took it to a bodyshop and had them bake it in their oven. Turned out that the stupid retarded mixologist at SW put too much pigment in the paint (very dark blue color) and it never dried. They said since it was a dark color and they put so much pigment in that they said it would never dry. Although I had stripped and repainted the cab 3 times and wasted over 2 months that was the problem. So I finally got some special paint from a place that said not to tell anyone kinda thing and mixed some dark blue that would dry on my cab. |
| gryhnd:
Addendum: I think you have two issues going on. Obviously one of adhesion. The other is either a bad batch of paint, poor drying conditions, or potentially some incompatibility between components in the paint and the laminate or something applied previously to the laminate. |
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