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Posted: 11/10/2006 5:08:50 PM EDT
| Does baking a Krylon paint job make it more durable? If so, what temp and how long, etc? Thanks. |
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After putting some krylon on mine, I left it in my truck all day (90-95 degree days) at work for several days. This toughened it up a little to the touch but high wear areas still come off very easily. Krylon is pretty much temporary regardless of what you do. Of course that can be a good thing as well if you want to swap patterns or colors. Hit it with some brake cleaner or something as simple as Hoppes #9 and it will come right off. |
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Hoppes #9 does NOT take Krylon off (at least not on any of my guns). The only things I have found to do it so far are Gun Scrubber (brake cleaner) and a good paint thinner. Personally I have found Krylon to be VERY durable. But it all depends on what you want it to do. If you want a pretty show piece, then Krylon is not what you want. |
I guess the difference for me might be the fact that I have a base coat of Norrell's on my rifle and then the Krylon on top of that. That may be what allows it to be removed so easily. |
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I have found, through testing on a pair of C products aluminum mags, that Krylon will hold up pretty well, provided you give it 2 or 3 good coats of paint. Wait at LEAST an hour between coats and don't go grabbing the fresh mags with greasy hands/paws when taking them out of the plastic wrappers. ;) Several light/moderate coats will be much better than a single thick coat that never dries propperly. I have painted a few car parts with Krylon auto paint in the past and have screwed up enough to know what NOT to do... I will post pics of my mags after the 3rd light coat has dried. The Krylon black "with fusion technology" paint dries with a VERY flat surface finish on the mags. I have a PRC-6 radio pair that I am going to attack with the olive-drab paint here next weekend. The directions say to wait 7 days for it to be fully "chip resistant". with that said, I will have a range report on these mags after Turkey day. |
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