Technical Paint thinning in CA Gasoline or Acitone?

I have two paints that need to be thinned to spray and they call for xylene. I didn't know it was outlawed here this year and can't find any anywhere. They even outlawed mineral spirits and naptha.

The paints I want to thinn are acrylic alkyd and Rust Bullet moiture cure urethane that both call for xylene.

I think I have some mineral spirits and I could mix that with acitone to slow it.

I know guys in the Army used to use gasoline. Other than the obvious safety issues how is gasoline as a thinner now days?

 

Go to a house Paint store, those products are outlawed for Automotive use, you might be able to find it there.
Gasoline is too dirty and contains alcohol which will completely screw up your moisture cure urethane. Why are you wanting to reduce your moisture cure?

For the acrylic Alkyd use Acetone, or go to any automotive paint store and buy low VOC urethane reducer. This is work fine.

 

Ace hard ware down here still has it,I used it for the KBS paints.

 

I thought that acrylic and alkyd were two different animals.

 

Just a suggestion but check with a local paint store,the type that sells house paint.

You can find mineral spirits (paint thinner) and acetone. HRP

 

Also check with some smaller bodyshops,they may have some leftover reducers that they cant use anymore?,you should be able to get the proper stuff with a little bit of looking.I have a bunch of oddball stuff here since they changed a lot of the paints here in canada,should dispose of it,but i am too cheap to throw out "good stuff. Harvey

 

I'm sure a Menards, Lowes or Home Depot would have what you need.

 

Check wally world & Sherwin Williams. 37 caddys body shops suggestion is a great suggestion also.

 

You can find a lot of things in the big box stores that are "outlawed" for specific uses. For example MEK is supposedly outlawed as well as Naphthalene, and they both are for use in industrial settings but I buy them both @ Lowes.

 

No they are both in the polyester family. Adding the acrylic brings quicker dry time and better exterior durability. Not so much for Automotive but good for industrial.

 

Also lighter fluid is usually straight vm and p naphtha.

 

I ran out of reducer/thinner not too long ago while using up some old Dulux Enamel. Used gasoline with no problems at all. Maybe lucky that I didn't blow myself and the rest of the neighborhood up, but it did work out fine.

 

Many Ca. people come here to Nevada and get whatever they can't get at home.

 

And some of us even cross the state line to buy paint supplies.

 

What is the difference between thinning and reducing?

 

Same meaning,just different terms.

 

Coleman Fuel or Blazo is the same thing, a first distillate of gasoline, about 50 octane. The difference is, Coleman fuel is ten dollars a gallon versus 90 for "lighter fluid".

Oh well.

 

Yea vm and p cost us a little less than $5/gal but in drums.