Re: (ET) Sealing in the paint

["Dan and Connie Conine" <dconine dotnet com>]

Are you storing it inside or outside?
Fading might be the biggest problem, but otherwise, I recommend a good
hardshell (carnouba)wax on it. Generally, clearcoating with anything like
polyurethane or laquer will probably take the latex off or make it krinkle.
With the cool weather, you will probably be better off to wait untill the
weather warms and the paint gets most of it's outgassing done (a month 
above
60°. Also, you might want to wait 6 months or a year and see if the paint 
is
still staying on the metal before putting too much work into protecting it.
Unless you are confident the latex is going to last, don't put any silicone
wax on it. That will just make the replacement paint job cleaning work more
difficult.

DanC

----- Original Message -----
From: "steves" <ssawtelle fcc net>
To: <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: (ET) Sealing in the paint


> Not sure how to protect the latex, but in the future you may want to get
> them to custom blend with an enamel base. They will, but you need to ask.
>
> - SteveS
> E20
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Zach" <czach computer org>
> To: "Elec-trak list" <>
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:07 PM
> Subject: (ET) Sealing in the paint
>
>
> > Well, now that the deck is painted and the tractor has two coats over
> > all the once-rusted bits I do have to say that my E-20 looks like a
> > million bucks!
> >
> > Now how do I keep it that way? This was a latex paint; and I wonder if 
> > I
> > should put some sort of a sealer over it to protect it. Or should I wax
> > the thing?
> >
> > The mower deck BTW looks beautiful. Right now it looks like a thing of
> > pure beauty.
> >
> > Sorry to bubble on, but I never saw the E20 as a nice-looking thing
> before.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
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