where to purchase Acryic lacquer ?

[Stephen R.]

Re: where to purchase Acryic lacquer ?

Source for lacquer...Hibernia Auto Restoration. And PPG still carries the full line. Check with local jobbers Mine in PA can still get it for me.
I have 3 cars getting ready to shoot in the shop now all will be single stage urethane it is closer to the "Good Old" Lacquer than todays crap!! I was thinking of posting some of the tricks to make urethane look like lacquer even metallics if anyone would be interested.

Rich

Rich:
Are you located near Philly? I'm looking for a local source of lacquer, Snowcrest white.
Thanks
Steve

[Dave S.]

Re: where to purchase Acryic lacquer ?

Go to a body shop today for a small paint repair and it is a full panel shoot. You need a full body suit and supplied air system to shoot all the new paints including "water base". The health issues are real. My original '63 black paint is still a mile deep. How many newer cars do we see every day with a frosty clear coat . Durability? We emit less voc in a small touch up than a two paint re-coat. What about the voc emission from a total two coat repaint that has failed. My '77 T/A still looks like it came from the factory. Lousy application and all. I have shot both the new and the old, and both have advantages over the other. I still like lacquer on lacquer cars.

I bought some Steel Cities Gray and Donneybrooke green lacquer about 10 years ago from Hibernia Restorations in New Jersey. Its been properly stored since and hopefully I'll never use it. (at least on the original paint cars I have). I've never opened the cans but I was assured back then it was a formidable substitute for vintage lacquer in flake and color. Thing that concerns me is the metal flake in both of those colors. Both were full of metal flake when new. Maybe I'll do a restoration and find out.

[Paul J.]

Re: where to purchase Acryic lacquer ?

Source for lacquer...Hibernia Auto Restoration. And PPG still carries the full line. Check with local jobbers Mine in PA can still get it for me.
I have 3 cars getting ready to shoot in the shop now all will be single stage urethane it is closer to the "Good Old" Lacquer than todays crap!! I was thinking of posting some of the tricks to make urethane look like lacquer even metallics if anyone would be interested.

Rich

Add me to the list. I would be very interested in hearing about any painting tricks.

[Rich P.]

Re: where to purchase Acryic lacquer ?

Well, HAELYES!!!...What are'yer waiting fer??!!

But, start a new thread...this topic definitely needs a clean, new, streamlined venue with a topic line that easy to find with "Search".

My intent was to start another thread question is what shuld the title be to allow for the easiest search results for future users?

Rich

[Rich P.]

Re: where to purchase Acryic lacquer ?

Rich:
Are you located near Philly? I'm looking for a local source of lacquer, Snowcrest white.
Thanks
Steve

Steve, I'm in Macungie (just outside of allentown) My local jobber is Colours paint supply located in Emmaus PA Tier phone # is 610-966-4501 speak to Bob or Colliene. They have several locations in this area.

Rich

[Rich P.]

Re: where to purchase Acryic lacquer ?

Rich if you have used PPG Ralley Red lacquer or PPG Ralley Red single stage urethane how did it compare to Ralley Red lacquer paint available 25 years ago?

Jim,

yes I painted a 72 Chevelle SS 5 years ago with Dupont single stage (Think it was called chroma one). The coverage was much better than todays red lacquers but I still had to base the car out (that means put 3 -4 coats of paint on) then block sand it and then apply my final coats of paint. This is the car which I actually came up with the idea of being able to lay out single stage to look like factory lacquer. I will go into more detail in the new thread on how it is and is not similar to the old lacquer of 25-30 years ago.

Rich

[Stephen R.]

Re: where to purchase Acryic lacquer ?

Steve, I'm in Macungie (just outside of allentown) My local jobber is Colours paint supply located in Emmaus PA Tier phone # is 610-966-4501 speak to Bob or Colliene. They have several locations in this area.

Rich

Thanks Rich. That's a drivable location.
Steve

[Chuck S.]

Re: where to purchase Acryic lacquer ?

My intent was to start another thread question is what shuld the title be to allow for the easiest search results for future users?...

Hmmm...Who knows what will work with this "Search" feature.

How about "Simulating Lacquer Paint Appearance With Urethane"? If you put in "Lacquer", you get the thread; if you put in "Urethane", it comes up; "Paint", comes up. It seems like that should work.

Thanks in advance, Rich...I'm looking forward to reading the thread.

[Chuck S.]

Re: where to purchase Acryic lacquer ?

...You say "non-compliance zone" and perhaps that's what they call it in Texas, but the proper term is "nonattainment" which means that the area has shown that it does not meet the 8 hour ambient Ozone standard. This is designated by the EPA and the I/M program is one way that the States have tried to deal with this. Nonattainment is one area where the EPA has directly dictated to States what they will do...

Dohp! Yeah, of course you're right. It was a simple tractor engineer's forgetful, and possibly inaccurate, paraphrasing of proper terminology.