jeffc wrote:
"Hopkins" wrote in message
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"Enamel" usually refers to a baked-on hard glossy finish. When
speaking of paint, it's like latex...

latex = water-based
enamel = oil-based

Maybe "usually", maybe not. There are water based enamels, that's
why I pointed it out.

If it's hard and glossy it's called "enamel" because the original enamel
was glass fused to metal. They sell latex "enamel" and it *is* glossy.
But hard? I don't think so...it isn't sandable, stuff sticks to it, it
doesn't flow.

There is no reason that there couldn't be a decent water based "enamel"
(may already exist) but it would use polyurethane. Latex is fine for
drywall and concrete, lousy for wood. Lousy, that is, if one cares
about how it looks.

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