1952 ford paintjob

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tonydennisadw

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painted ford 2 months ago with candy apple red metallic acrylic enamel by trinity 1945 paint used their thinner and hardner painter used 4 to 1 to 1 ratio...Help problem to date when cool out 70 or below paint feels dry but when gets over 80 paint gets very tacky to touch,, warmer it gets tackier it gets,,,, been in 90ties will it ever dry???? if i bear with it called manufacturer but got answer machine answers appreciated Dennis
 
If you Google "trinity 1945 paint complaints" you will find you are not the only person to have problems with this company. It sounds to me like the hardener was ineffective and what you ended up with was just old fashioned enamel.
Using cheap products during the painting process usually is false economy.
 
Another possibility is that if you put on a heavy wet first coat and followed it up with a second wet coat too soon before the thinner had flashed off, you may have trapped thinner that is now venting out in the hot sun softening the outer coat. You MAY get lucky if you force dry it with an inferred heater made for painting, or letting it sit in the hot sun.
I always wait at least 20 minutes between coats to avoid this sort of thing. But it sounds like the hardener may not have catalyze the paint.

I am sorry that happened to you, there are just a million things that can go wrong when painting a car ( and it only takes 1) and I seem to have experienced most of them.
 
thanks deuce i was wondering about that for the last week or so so i called a lcoal body shop with a heat dryer but the person i got to talk too didnt seem interested said other peeps that might know were busy with a customer.... yesterday i pulled it out in sun was about low 80ties so heres my luck wasnt out 15 minutes clouded up and started reaining this is for real still drizzling here today in sw ohio perhap the big guy in the sky knows more about drying it than i do.................. thanks all
 
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