The Ford Barn

tonydennisadw · 08-10-2018, 09:52 AM

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

mrtexas · 08-10-2018, 10:01 AM

You used 1945 paint?

deuce_roadster · 08-10-2018, 10:11 AM

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.

tonydennisadw · 08-10-2018, 10:12 AM

that is not the year of the paint manufacture....

tonydennisadw · 08-10-2018, 10:14 AM

but will it ever dry

51 MERC-CT · 08-10-2018, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by tonydennisadw

but will it ever dry

Hard to say, if it hasn't catylized/ hardened by now, lots of luck.

tonydennisadw · 08-10-2018, 10:26 AM

thanks deuce and merc well ud thought id learned b4 hitting 80 looks like a wash off and resand and some good paint........

deuce_roadster · 08-10-2018, 09:25 PM

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.

tonydennisadw · 08-11-2018, 08:05 AM

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

08-10-2018, 09:52 AM	#1
tonydennisadw Senior Member Join Date: May 2015 Location: sw ohio Posts: 130	1952 ford paintjob 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

08-10-2018, 10:01 AM	#2
mrtexas Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Sugar Land, TX Posts: 4,395	Re: 1952 ford paintjob You used 1945 paint? __________________ 41 woodie https://41fordwoodie.weebly.com/

08-10-2018, 10:11 AM	#3
deuce_roadster Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Shelton, WA Posts: 3,800	Re: 1952 ford paintjob 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.

08-10-2018, 10:12 AM	#4
tonydennisadw Senior Member Join Date: May 2015 Location: sw ohio Posts: 130	Re: 1952 ford paintjob that is not the year of the paint manufacture....

08-10-2018, 10:14 AM	#5
tonydennisadw Senior Member Join Date: May 2015 Location: sw ohio Posts: 130	Re: 1952 ford paintjob but will it ever dry

08-10-2018, 10:26 AM	#7
tonydennisadw Senior Member Join Date: May 2015 Location: sw ohio Posts: 130	Re: 1952 ford paintjob thanks deuce and merc well ud thought id learned b4 hitting 80 looks like a wash off and resand and some good paint........

08-10-2018, 09:25 PM	#8
deuce_roadster Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Shelton, WA Posts: 3,800	Re: 1952 ford paintjob 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.

08-11-2018, 08:05 AM	#9
tonydennisadw Senior Member Join Date: May 2015 Location: sw ohio Posts: 130	Re: 1952 ford paintjob 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