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Re: Tru-color paint

A&Y Dave in MD
 

Nelson,

My local hobby shop owner told me he was given a bottle of thinner by the Tru Color people to top off bottles where evaporation happened, so it's a known problem.  When I'm paying $5 for a small jar of paint, I shouldn't have to top off with a thinner that costs me as well!  I have been transferring the paint to glass jars with metal lids and haven't lost any volume. However, if they want me to keep buying it, they better fix that problem at the source, pronto.

Dave

Thursday, January 18, 2018, 2:48:19 PM, you wrote:


  
I called Tru Color to ask the same question and was told that acetone was a relatively minor ingredient in the thinner and there are several others ingredients. They don’t recommend thinning paint with Acetone, but Acetone is fine for cleanup. Of course, they sell a pint of thinner for $43.95, so why wouldn’t they say that. Apparently, thinning with acetone alone changes the handling and drying characteristics of the paint, particularly the shiny finish.
 
Jon, your question raised other questions. Why do you want to thin the paint? Tru Color claims it’s ready to spray without thinning, and I’ve painted ten cars so far shooting straight paint at 20 psi with a gravity feed airbrush. I think thinning would require more coats than straight paint. I’m curious, how many modelers thin vs. not thin, and how many coats do you average for thinned vs not thinned?
 
One problem I’ve noticed with Tru Color is that the bottle caps aren’t always tight on the shelves, and I’ve had evaporative losses up to 3-4 ml. per bottle before I caught it. I don’t know if the caps weren’t tightened properly at the plant, or the worked loose due to temperature changes, but I suspect I’ve had some of both. I brought up the new bottles to full volume with Tru Color thinner, then really tightened the caps hard. So far, I haven’t had additional evaporative loss. Now I always check the volume, add thinner if necessary, and tighten the cap on all new bottles.
 
Nelson Moyer
 

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    Not having quick access to thinner is acetone* an acceptable thinner?  For the paint cup only or to be added to the jar?
 
* or would MEK be better?
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