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(N. Thornton) wrote:

Personally I'd want any gloss off. Enamel is very hard stuff, breaks
easily, and new gloss paint is soft, so not the best base for enamel.

The term "Enamel" is often missleading.

Enamel means "hard glass like coating" but the term is also used to
describe a gloss finish that can be available in any paint form, Enamel
is used as just another name for a gloss, Albeit a hard or harder gloss.

An ordinary Cellulose car paint can be oven baked thus it becomes a
stove enamelled finish.

Tekaloid synthetic oil paint is also referred to as an enamel. There are
Cellulose enamels, Acrylic enamels, Specific stoving enamels like powder
coating, Synthetic enamels, Yacht enamels, Vitreous enamels.

Paint manufactures widely use the term "Enamel" to cash in on a better
more sellable paint product simply by calling it an enamel.


Steve.

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