Technical What do you do with old auto paint?

Rocky you are a hoot!

 

Yep ^^ it is impossible to ship as rule but if someone had a couple of pints of clear lacquer or lacquer primer I could sure find a use for it here.

 

Houston has an interesting thing. All of the old paint can be dropped off at a recycling facility and they mix the compatible stuff together and give it away to people that paint over Graffiti.
The garbage collection people say to leave cans open until it hardens then put it in the regular garbage for pick up.

 

I had 4 gallons of Lacquer shipped from California to Montana then picked it up and brought it up to Canada with no issues at all. You can still buy lacquer primer. Evecoat sells their Durabuild in quarts if you are looking for small quantities.

 

Yea lacquer is easy to get here if you are not a professional painter. But if someone is throwing it away I will sure use it.

I have had some come to me parcel post but the post office frowns on it. I figure that they will be cracking down again for a while after this deal in paris.

 

We buried it then sold the farm!!

 

Put it by the curb with a free sign and no one will take it.
Put it by the curb with a $5 sign someone will "steal" it.
Seriously, I've done it with old tires...


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This is what big deuce was talking about. Where they removed the old paint build-up from the floor of a plant paint shop or body shop, cut up the pieces, polished it and made jewelry. You could probably do it yourself, pour a thin layer let it dry, then another and another, pretty time consuming.

 

Man, use it on something, paint some flames on the lawn mower, paint your mailbox, mix it all together and paint the bottom of your daily driver. Find the*****tiest truck in town and brush paint the bumper.

 

Who has leftover paint? My problem is I never seem to buy enough, and end up buying more!

 

Don't know about GM, but I doubt if they took the time to do that with their paint-or wasted it. True, however, is Ford having to chip layers of hardened enamels off the paint booth frames-most of it went into landfills, some is now available as "Fordite". It's also called "Motor Agate". This all is from long ago when cars were hand painted. With the electrostatic, robotic paint booths used today, this stuff just doesn't exit and isn't being created. Search on Ebay-it's worth a very pretty penny-even in small pieces. I have a small disc of it glued on the end of my shift lever.