Steve Turner wrote:


A buddy of mine and I sprayed quite a few vehicles with Imron back in
the late seventies/early eighties. Great stuff. I remember the
first time we tried it we mixed some up and didn't use it all; we
left it in the gun with intention to come back the next morning and
shoot another coat. I guess you know what happened with that little
strategy! :-)

Funny! But - today's urethanes will do the same thing. Pot life has almost
become a term of the past. I can remember when I would mix up a gun full of
primer and hang it on the hook until I was completely done with primer -
which might be tomorrow. No more! So now we have all of these safer,
better paints that require us to use more lacquer thinner (etc.) to clean
guns immediately. No problem though - 'cause now we have disposal
regulations and licensed agencies to deal with all of that...


I take it Imron is no longer available? What happened, did the tree
huggers drive it off the market?

I don't even know if you can still buy Imron. Maybe so - but I don't shoot
it anymore so I have not kept track. Tree huggers - Yup! That, and the
"this will cause cancer" idiots in California that somehow seem to influence
the rest of the country.

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-Mike-