<VV> Eastwood water colors...

[Tony Underwood]

At 05:24 hours 03/10/2005, Mark Noakes wrote:
>I remember a thread back a while ago about water based primers; now 
>Eastwood is selling the water-based paints.  Does anyone have any real 
>experience painting cars with these?  I'm having trouble imagining that 
>they would last as long or have as good a shine as "real" paint.
>
> >From a home painting standpoint, the only advantage is that it would 
> keep me out of trouble with respect to disposing of wastes.



Water based automotive paints have been around for a while.   They do work 
pretty well although there *is* a caveat:   They *must* be clearcoated with 
acrylic or urethane or whatever in order to resist weathering.  They don't 
stand up otherwise.

tony..