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old school gamer:

Use OIL based primer on MDF. After that you can use whatever type of paint you like. OSG

DrewKaree:


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When you buy your primer, have them tint it to more closely match your final color.

While you're at the hardware store, make sure to buy a dowel rod...one of those long thin whippy kind, about a quarter inch thick...to apply with sufficient force to the back of the legs of the person setting  a beer on your cab...sacrilege!   ;)

gap:

Should MDF be primed before it's laminated?  Will the primer provide  better adhesion for the laminate?  Or maybe worse?

neuromancer:

I'd say put one coat of primer on it and then paint it. You can get paint for cheap at places like Home Depot in odd colors.

Reason is because primer isn't necessarily designed to keep moisture out. It's there to make paint stick better. Exterior paint, otoh, _is_ designed to keep moisture out.

I think we're all assumining that you laminated it with plastic, and not wood veneer.

You could still get problems if you have temperature swings, because the plastic will probably expand at a different rate than the mdf, but you can easily avoid probs by using some interior bracing. Just avoid having big expanses of wood. It's probably not an issue anyway, but I like to be extra safe.

Bob

Bob

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