So I was gonna spend Christmas Eve painting...yeah I know!!! Anyway, I cracked open a new gallon of HOK KP-21 epoxy primer. Stirred the hell out of it with a drill motor (the norm for me) and when I stopped (after mixing 10 min or so) it almost instantly started to seperate again! Mixed like fuck again for a LONG time...same shit. Just to see what happened I did a quick mix again so it was completely gray, measured out a cup, slowly added 1/2 cup activator (mix 2-1 as always) while mixing...the stuff started to clump up like cottage cheese and the brown oil shit started to seperate out again. Tried the whole process again...same result. What is going on? Both parts were brand new unopened cans...Never had this before and didn't change a thing I do. Mike
Where are you storing your paint? My first thought was maybe the cold weather froze it. I try to keep all of my paint supplies, including rattle cans, in the house (even tho momma doesn't like it). If you just bought it, i'd be takin it back.
Not that I personally know of!!! Of course I'm sure the warehouse it came from wasn't climate controlled nor the truck it came on...So it could have. BUT I keep my shit in the house until I'm ready to go. Mike
bummer. I figure it's always better to find out your paint is fugged up before you spray rather than after... so look at it as a good thing.
Hey, You guys who live in cold country......... Don't be storing your paint and solvents inside of your homes unless you have a class1 flamables fire cabinet. Think about it, would you store gasoline in the house, along with mama and the kiddies? Most of these automotive finish products are as flamable as gasoline, and get dangerous as hell when heated. Gasoline has strong odorants added to it so it can be detected when you have a leak. Automotive finish products don't ,but will go off with just as big a bang! And yeah, this goes for rattle- cans, too! Swankey Devils C.C.
not trying to hijack the thread,but does anyone know about what temp paint freezes? i know water freezes at 32 degrees,but i would have to think that paint would freeze at a much lower temp.
over here in the 'cooler' Minnesota, a painter friend of mine leaves 90% of all his paint & materials in his back room unheated, it freezes in there. the catalast seems to last longer. the paint is never froze. i leave my 1-shot in the paint box out in the freezing cold car for weeks at a time & some of my pints are over 10 years old & are just fine. - i dont think paint freezes, maybe primer or sealer does?
yeah, this has come up before, the consensus of actual painters is cold won't usually hurt paint. i'm no pro, but my paint and primer has frozen, to no apparant ill effect. only bad stuff i've seen was years old, or the can rusted.
I' ve had cold weather affect primer. I picked up a small non-working chest freezer and keep a 60 watt lightbulb going in it. Keeps the temp at 65-70. I keep all paint and primer in it ,works great since I don't heat my shop unless I'm working. Ron
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