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What paint can I use that will cover plastic, it the bit around the top

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hi
if it's fibreglass best to prime with acid etch primer, two pck is best but wear a mask!!!!.ask your local refinishing factor for advise,once etched apply paint and job done!!
this year solvent based paints will be obsolete due to eu law so get it now before the factors say they are no longer able to supply!!!

Cheers for that

Hey frosty!
So are we saying I should stock up with cellulose paint for my camper?

That's all I have experience of - and kit for spraying (and I'm not very good at that!)

yes
according to my local refinishing factors this year solvent based paints will no longer be available!!!.
apparently all they can supply is waterbased products which require specialist eqiupment!!
i love smellulose it's so forgiving if you make a mistake when spraying.

have bought the paint for my bus just in case they do stop, but i cannot see how this new law will be enforced due to the amount of products containg solvents.

If its fibreglass then pop down to you local boat shop and pick up the pamphlet buy international paints.
Have painted three boats with the roller brush method and got great results.

DO wear a mask with 2-pack, as it coats the inside of your lungs and you slowly suffocate !! so i am informed, not one of those things i'd like to try and find out for myself though..
good luck with painting

hi
a couple of points i should have mentioned in early post.
acid etch primer is two pack(two components required to cure properly)but the catalyst is phosphoric acid.
i have used this material in the past with an organic resperator mask which is adequate for diy use.

2 pack paints using isocyantes as catalysts should not be used without full airfed resperation equipment and full body cover.
they are for profesional use only.

Nelly's post is right, this stuff is potentionaly fatal, and also the isocyanate is still present when cured so the dust is a hazard as well when sanding.

ask at you'r refinishing factors for advise regarding h&s and the products it supplies.
hope this helps and sorry for being so long winded!!! better a bit of bad paint than your health!!

My bus was two-packed and the guys were bagged up with air pipes. they were spraying for 2hrs and sweated like pigs, that was just one colour, there was another two to go!

the results were astounding. two pack is very glossy. the ovens speeded up the drying process

nelly wrote:DO wear a mask with 2-pack, as it coats the inside of your lungs and you slowly suffocate !! so i am informed, not one of those things i'd like to try and find out for myself though..
good luck with painting

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I've sprayed 2 pack - considered the risk and decided to once paint my van was admissible - although I wouldn't advise it. The poison stays in your system forever, and it's the build up that reaches an unacceptible level and causes you harm......we were in an open car port, and left the scene after each coat - but even so, I was snotting gold for a week.....

I was snotting Gold for a week


As always, in your case Jen, no doubt it was 24 carat

DO wear a mask with 2-pack, as it coats the inside of your lungs and you slowly suffocate !! so i am informed, not one of those things i'd like to try and find out for myself though..
good luck with painting

Thanks guys.

I do own a airfed respirator, and those body suits, so I will be safe, even though I look like to the neighbours that bird flu has arrived lol