[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Marco, it is likely that the biggest reason for the confusion is the end consumer.

Most Collision shops do very little true sanding to 'level the surface' like we do. The biggest thing that haunts them is bleedback. That is where a Sealer comes in. Again, this does not affect us because most of the time we are using the primer as a surfacer to "level" with. The difference between the Hardeners is the 'kick time' due to the K36's Wet-on-Wet application to be a Sealer. Because this is a much cheaper product than say DCC (Concept), they want shops to tint the sealer with a splash of color to make the sealer closer to the surrounding color, ...and so they can save paint used on the top coat. Adding a couple of tablespoons of DCC top-coat to a sprayable qt. of sealer will likely eliminate a ¼ - ½ pint of top-coat because of being able to cover better.

THEN, if this is not confusing enough, rumor from my PPG jobber is that within the next year or so, the DCC (Concept) line will be eliminated and replaced with a line called Millenium which does not have heavy metals mixed in. Then, to top that, they tell me that within the next 5 years, EPA is mandating that all shops will only be able to spray water-bourne paint. I am looking at a $25k investment to upgrade my booth to comply with water-bourne. They already have forced me to spray all primers inside of a spray booth, that all guns must be HVLP only and have a maintenance log kept on them, and that we cannot even spray clean-out thinner into the air unless we are inside of a booth.