Another Paint Question

I have had poor luck mixing brands of paints, or spraying one brand over another brand. So now I go with 100% Brodak.

I have a can of SIG retarder that I would like to use in some Brodak clear. Will I have trouble with mixing? With my luck, it will not work. But I would appreciate any opinions...

Dr. Spark,

I have it on reliable authority that the surplus retarder you have on hand will work superbly as a fire-starter for your end-of-the-season barbecue.

Also don't forget that Halloween is coming up. Lottsa uses for flammables this coming Sunday evening.

Floyd,

It's probably fine, but it's use at your own risk. So often, paints are formulated to only work with same brand, tested components. Using other stuff is a home testing situation. I'd say, mix up a bit and spray on a test piece and see what you get...or follow Dan's advice.

100% Brodak with sig retarder comes up short on the 100% Brodak. I would go with Dan's advice....

I have used Sig retarder with Brodak with no problems.

I also have mixed both Sig and Brodak dope on the same plane with no problems, provided I used the same thinner.

Actually the SIG thinner is a slower drying thinner than Brodak, and both seem compatable with one another. So just using a bit of SIG thinner would give you the effect of retarder. The worst that I would see resulting from using the SIG retarder would be that it would retard a bit more than the Brodak stuff (seeing that it is made to retard the already slower drying base). So, used in small amounts, I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Using retarder is always a "use at your own risk" situation, especially with the top coats. If you use too much on the top coats it can cause melt down where everything begins to mix together. Used on the bottom coats, it just makes you wait longer before you can sand.

Responses have been about equally divided. I guess I'll not take a chance. To Mr. Dan: perhaps you have read my mind, or else you know someone in the Eugene Prop Spinners C/L club! We had a nice BB-Q at my place last Sat. with most of the members present. Mel Markum brought some salmon that he caught in Alaska. Good stuff!

>Responses have been about equally divided. I guess I'll not
>take a chance. To Mr. Dan: perhaps you have read my mind,
>or else you know someone in the Eugene Prop Spinners C/L
>club! We had a nice BB-Q at my place last Sat. with most of
>the members present. Mel Markum brought some salmon that he
>caught in Alaska. Good stuff!
>
>Floyd

Floyd,

As I thought you already knew, I am prescient. Actually, I am omni-prescient.

I find it better than being smart.

I can just imagine what Mel would have said had you cooked his salmon with retarder-contaminated charcoal. Actually, I know exactly what he would have said, see above.

If I only knew what those big words meant, I might be complimented or insulted: don't know which. I'm only an engineer and my grades in English were not that good. Mel Markum caught the salmon in Sitka. Not nearly as big as the 40 lb. King Salmon I caught in Naknek, AK.