Mr Surfacer question

[hrtpaul]

use the Premium Thinners for over-coating of high gloss finishes, (a really good spray painters trick that Knotty taught me).
TOR

What does this do mate?

[tor lives]

use the Premium Thinners for over-coating of high gloss finishes, (a really good spray painters trick that Knotty taught me).
TOR

What does this do mate?

It enhances, highlights, equalizers. and protects the high gloss finish. Panel beater/spray painters do it all the time with cars. As mentioned, Knotty taught me the trick, and I have never looked back.
TOR

[hrtpaul]

So you just spray it neat over the gloss coat? Do you do this before or after the paint is dry? Ta mate

[tor lives]

So you just spray it neat over the gloss coat? Do you do this before or after the paint is dry? Ta mate

A couple of light coats neat over the paint while it is drying, (this is what flattens the paint out and gives it a beautiful even sheen). Resist the temptation to get carried away though, because it is thinners you are spraying, and you don't want to f@#k up your nice gloss finish. Also has the effect of cleaning the airbrush in the process, so it is win win .
TOR

[hrtpaul]

Hmmmm might have to give that a go I reckon. Thanks mate

[kfutter]

What Ray is talking about is usually referred to as a 'flash coat' (not the ones you buy from David Jones). It's meant to enhance the self-levelling properties of the drying coat of paint. I've never really got it to work for me, though.

So, with this GP thinners stuff - it sounds like it's just turps, no?

Kev

[hrtpaul]

Nah Kez it's just a different type of thinners. It's used and evaporates like lacquer thinners and has similar properties as well. It even smells the same IIRC

[kfutter]

Nah Kez it's just a different type of thinners. It's used and evaporates like lacquer thinners and has similar properties as well. It even smells the same IIRC

So maybe it's actually a variant of lacquer thinners, then? They're not petroleum-based, though, but cellulose-based (which is why it's called cellulose thinners in the UK).

Maybe I'll just have to trot down to Bunnings and check it out myself.

Kev

[tor lives]

Kev, I get mine from Supercheap Auto.
TOR