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Post by rsmith on Apr 12, 2023 9:36:57 GMT -5
I’ve shot so much Imron I pr should be dead. When I was 19 I bought a 1968 427 corvette. Middle of the gas shortage you couldn’t give away a car like that. Paid #2350 and the car was matching # lemans blue mint except that was typical of the first year of the mako shark body someone backed over the nose in a parallel parking deal. It had been fixed but the job was shitty and started cracking at the corners of the hood opening. You couldn’t really blend metallic back then and the blend in was bad. They had just built a new votec school and they I was taking a welding course. Went by the auto body shop on day and talked to the teacher. All the equipment was brand new with top of the line paint booth refrigerated air dryers and everything. Teacher was great old time retired body guy and I joined the night school class. Maybe 3-4 guys they were mostly guys wanted to fix theirs cars cheap. The instructor took me under his wing and we fixed everything correctly on the Vette. He got me a deal on a top of the line Devibilis gun at the schools cost and we shot 27 coats of lacquer on the Vette. I got so good with the gun I started doing some of the other guys cars. Everything in the shop was DuPont and I think they were giving this stuff to these Votecs to get guys hooked on their products. I think the normal stuff was Dulux or Centari. The day kids were working on a Mack tanker for the local fire co. No hydrants in farm country. They had tankers they would fill up at farmers lakes for water. When the kids got the prep done the instructor aske me if I’d shoot the Mack. Said DuPont gave him this new paint called Imron “the wet look” you got 3/4 gallon plus a quart of activator. No thinning required. I started shooting and stopped to clean the gun and get something to eat. By the time I came back the entire can kicked and it was a solid mass of rubber. Never mixed more than a quart after that. The Mack did come out incredible wet look for sure super deep shine with no buffing if it’s sprayed right. After that I painted nearly everything I owned with Imron. Tools job boxes trucke cars boats you name it it got Imron. Shot both the 34 and 50 with it. Painted the 50 in 1980 in 3 weeks start to finish inside a shed 15 gallons. Me and 2 guys that worked for us. Bummer that the original stuff is unavailable. You look at some of these 80’s Hatts with the original paint that still buffs up is amazing. It was great stuff.
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Apr 12, 2023 19:17:23 GMT -5
Hey Scrod... got the package... glad it worked! Thanks from all of us BTW
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Post by skycheney on Apr 12, 2023 20:21:10 GMT -5
What are you paying for a gallon of imron and activator? Haven't bought any for probably 6 years. No idea what its going for.
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Post by skycheney on Apr 12, 2023 20:29:17 GMT -5
I’ve shot so much Imron I pr should be dead. When I was 19 I bought a 1968 427 corvette. Middle of the gas shortage you couldn’t give away a car like that. Paid #2350 and the car was matching # lemans blue mint except that was typical of the first year of the mako shark body someone backed over the nose in a parallel parking deal. It had been fixed but the job was shitty and started cracking at the corners of the hood opening. You couldn’t really blend metallic back then and the blend in was bad. They had just built a new votec school and they I was taking a welding course. Went by the auto body shop on day and talked to the teacher. All the equipment was brand new with top of the line paint booth refrigerated air dryers and everything. Teacher was great old time retired body guy and I joined the night school class. Maybe 3-4 guys they were mostly guys wanted to fix theirs cars cheap. The instructor took me under his wing and we fixed everything correctly on the Vette. He got me a deal on a top of the line Devibilis gun at the schools cost and we shot 27 coats of lacquer on the Vette. I got so good with the gun I started doing some of the other guys cars. Everything in the shop was DuPont and I think they were giving this stuff to these Votecs to get guys hooked on their products. I think the normal stuff was Dulux or Centari. The day kids were working on a Mack tanker for the local fire co. No hydrants in farm country. They had tankers they would fill up at farmers lakes for water. When the kids got the prep done the instructor aske me if I’d shoot the Mack. Said DuPont gave him this new paint called Imron “the wet look” you got 3/4 gallon plus a quart of activator. No thinning required. I started shooting and stopped to clean the gun and get something to eat. By the time I came back the entire can kicked and it was a solid mass of rubber. Never mixed more than a quart after that. The Mack did come out incredible wet look for sure super deep shine with no buffing if it’s sprayed right. After that I painted nearly everything I owned with Imron. Tools job boxes trucke cars boats you name it it got Imron. Shot both the 34 and 50 with it. Painted the 50 in 1980 in 3 weeks start to finish inside a shed 15 gallons. Me and 2 guys that worked for us. Bummer that the original stuff is unavailable. You look at some of these 80’s Hatts with the original paint that still buffs up is amazing. It was great stuff. For sure. Got a nice Devilbiss gun in the 80's. Loved Centari. Painted my Jeep with it. But then got on to Imron, like you mainly because we were painting all of our trucks with it. I Even painted by boat trailer with Imron. And my 1985 Hatteras still shines up just fine. No one can believe its the original paint.
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