What is "Acrylic Lacquerized Enamel" Krylon?

Hi,
I shot part of my engine bay in Krylon 1613 semi flat black, and now I want to shoot over it, probably with SEM Trim Black.
The Krylon web site says the paint is "Acrylic Lacquerized Enamel", what the H is that? It dries fast like a lacquer, but if it's enamel I can't shoot lacquer over it?

Thanks,

Paul

 

It's probably legaleze to get away with selling a few million cans of lacquer for a few months until the smog-nazis catch up with it and ad it to the banned lacquer list.
Call lacquer "Enamel" and you're off the hook for a while.

Sorta like one of the early plot lines in "A Clockwork Orange" (the book, not the movie) was "Milk Bars" that were night clubs that sold milk laced with the latest legal halucinogenic chemical drugs that kept changing formula slightly just ahead of the government ban on the last concoction.

 

My guess: fast-drying varnish containing pigment suspended in an acrylic polymer emulsion of lacquer thinner.

According to Wikipedia, for what its worth, when it comes to your commercially available "enamel" paint, the term enamel really has no meaning whatsoever. It is a "fanciful" marketing term, implying a paint that has the properties of vitreous enamel (but does not actually include any vitreous enamel) or stoved synthetic resins. However, it could mean that it contains an oil-modified polyester.

The ONLY reason that you cannot paint over "enamel" paint is that the surface dries before the subsurface, and it will expel active ingredients as the subsurface dries (over a period of months or even years).

 

No way would I try shooting laquer over that. I wouldn't even shoot "real" enamel over that. Krylon just isn't that stable- any solvent that is aggressive at all, will pull it away from the surface it's on. Wrinkle it.

Just try a test area first.

 

Easy for you to say!
Thanks for the input guys. I gave an area a couple of coats with the SEM a few hours ago to try, and so far everything is fine.

Paul