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Hot take: I was wrong about mixing paint in cold weather
For a long time I figured a heated booth was enough and I could mix paint in my regular shop area. Saw a job come back from a client in Fargo with a weird orange peel texture on a fender I KNOW I sprayed smooth. The shop temp was about 55 degrees when I mixed that batch. My supplier finally laid it out for me: the reducer and hardener thicken up when they're cold, even if the paint itself is warm, and you get a bad mix ratio. It throws off the whole chemical reaction. Now I keep my mixing cups and all the cans on a little warming tray for a solid hour before I even start. The difference in how it lays down is night and day. Anyone else in a colder climate run into this and have a better setup than my janky hot plate?
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grant13023d ago
Cold weather is a real pain for paint chemistry. That orange peel from cold materials is such a sneaky problem. Your warming tray fix is actually pretty smart.
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campbell.cora23d ago
My old boss in Duluth swore by just keeping the whole paint locker at 70 degrees, said warming trays add another variable.
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