primer

[Duke]

If you intend to repaint a part or component with acrylic or nitrocellular lacquer is there a special primer required?
Or conversely, will a spray can primer like Rustolium sand able or rust preventer accept lacquer?

[Milsteads Garage]

If you are going to primer/paint with anything, all your systems have to match. I once made the mistake of not paying attention to paint can labels and primed with enamel then applied a lacquer top coat. It immediately wrinkled and lifted. I also wanted to get the ugly off a car and sprayed a cheap flat black over a car that had been repainted with a pink lacquer around 40 years ago and it reacted and started to lift. It was always gooey and I really didnt want it strip the car and make more work so I left it alone for around a year, then painted over it again with another coat of flat black and only then it held.