1157 - In need of paint supply advice.

[Milsteads Garage]

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For the hell of it, I ducked out of work a minute and ended up at Napa paints which is a finish 1 Martin Senour paint distributor. Good news is I found a color that’s pretty close to what I want. Bad news is, I think they are priced high. The color was going to run around $450 a gallon. Their DTM primers were around $350 a gallon but just the paint, clear, activators and reducers were going to run me close to $1000. Now the money they are asking sounds about right but they are asking that kind of money for Finish1 that can be purchased at an auto parts store. Only time I have ever used finish 1 was in a jobber type setting just to get the car out. I have no idea on how the paint looks or if it even lasted because it went on a car I resold to get me what the car was actually worth. Thanks Matt, for commenting.

[Milsteads Garage]

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Speaking of which, I have an unopened gallon can of finish 1, FP410 urethane primer. According to the data sheet, it’s supposed to be pretty ultradocious stuff. So Matt,Knick, what do you guys think? Pitch it or use it? If I did keep it, the plan would be to coat the car first with an etching primer or epoxy primer. Again, cost really not an issue. Just making sure this would be smart to use.

[Matt Cashion]

Can't speak to that primer as we've never used it. We use TP520 (gray) and TP522 (black) from NAPA with very good results.