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10-22-2006, 01:28 PM | #1 | |
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Changing Enamel To Lacquer?
I have those Testors enamel paints in the small bottles(10ml?) and I never use them because they take weeks just to dry. I was thinking if it was possible to say, open the lids on them and let the thinner evaporate completely so that the paint inside becomes like chalk. Then, add lacquer thinner to revitalize them and essentially turn them to lacquer paint. Has anyone tried this and if so, would this work? Would it also work for acrylic paint?
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Re: Changing Enamel To Lacquer?
I don't see how it would work, there's more to it than just the solvent which makes the paints different.
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Re: Changing Enamel To Lacquer?
I don't think it will work. However, if you want to speed up drying, thin them with lacquer thinner. I only did that for spray painting but it worked very well. The drying time is much shorter than normal enamel (although longer than "real" lacquer) and the paint goes on much smoother and with less orange peel, specks, etc. Just use some caution if you use it over other paint as the lacquer thinner is quite "hot".
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Re: Changing Enamel To Lacquer?
You can't just thin any paint with lacquer thinner.
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Re: Changing Enamel To Lacquer?
I agree that you can't paint just any paint with lacquer thinner, eg. I doubt it would work with acrylics. However, it really works with Testors/Model Master enamels. I cannot recall the thread but it was even discussed here in the forum; that's why I tried it in the first place.
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Re: Changing Enamel To Lacquer?
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As for letting a bottle of paint dry up "until it turns into chalk", I have yet to see a dried up bottle of paint where the remaining paint was anything close to chalk. It would be incredibly difficult if not impossible to grind the dried material (basically it's a solid rock) into anything close to a powder that could be reconstituted. You'd have to use industrial equipment. Your $2 bottle of enamel would end up costing you $$$$$$ in time/labor/hassle/impossibility if you wanted to start playing workbench chemist just to avoid buying another bottle of non-enamel paint
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11-02-2006, 06:36 AM | #7 | |
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Re: Changing Enamel To Lacquer?
I have airbrushed enamels using lacquer thinner with success. It will dry to more of a matte finish. But I have truly given up on all enamels except for a few jars of clear colors that I still use for parking lights, etc.
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