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Any regrets Interior Paint-Sherwin Williams Dimension
- Thread starter Pmerems
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Jamie
Well Known Member
Hi Paul:
I used SW AcrylD, which is their Acrylic Urethane mid-range product. It worked fine -- you just have to use it in a well-ventilated area.
I found it best to use my conventional, $19 spray gun on surfaces I could lay flat and my cheap HVLP rig on the rest of the interior that must be painted vertically. I think it came out well. I matched a specific model year's color so I could easily buy touch-up paint.
After having great results with the cheap spray gun on the parts painted flat I decided to give painting the entire interior with the cheap gun a try. It looked FANTASTIC until the next morning when I went out there and it had run all over the place. Needless to say I ended up wet-sanding and respraying with the HVLP, which turned out MUCH better.
It's definately a learning experience. It's a three part paint: color, hardener and reducer. I mixed as accurately as possible but discovered that you really have to use a tad more reducer, and this has been confirmed by a couple of automotive paint guys I know.
Oh yeah, before closing up your hardener take a rag and wipe off the threads of the bottle and the inside of the cap. They don't call it hardener for no reason. Don't ask me how I know.
I used SW AcrylD, which is their Acrylic Urethane mid-range product. It worked fine -- you just have to use it in a well-ventilated area.
I found it best to use my conventional, $19 spray gun on surfaces I could lay flat and my cheap HVLP rig on the rest of the interior that must be painted vertically. I think it came out well. I matched a specific model year's color so I could easily buy touch-up paint.
After having great results with the cheap spray gun on the parts painted flat I decided to give painting the entire interior with the cheap gun a try. It looked FANTASTIC until the next morning when I went out there and it had run all over the place. Needless to say I ended up wet-sanding and respraying with the HVLP, which turned out MUCH better.
It's definately a learning experience. It's a three part paint: color, hardener and reducer. I mixed as accurately as possible but discovered that you really have to use a tad more reducer, and this has been confirmed by a couple of automotive paint guys I know.
Oh yeah, before closing up your hardener take a rag and wipe off the threads of the bottle and the inside of the cap. They don't call it hardener for no reason. Don't ask me how I know.
dan
Well Known Member
I used Sherwin Williams Dimension 3.5 urethane enamel on my interior. It has held up fantastically through about 1100 hours of flying & abuse. People slapping the seat belt buckles around, and no real signs of wear. I don't have any interior fabric whatsoever, so this paint having held up has been important to me...and it has. Good stuff.Pmerems said:
Just definitely protect yourself as you spray it. Urethane enamels were particularly nasty according to everybody I spoke to about isocyanates and what not. When I started spraying it in my cockpit I used a Hobbyair forced air respirator, full face mask.
rv9aviator
Well Known Member
Interior color question
I am planning on using the cream color Classic Aero leather seats in my RV-9A and need to make a decision on a trim color for all the aluminum that shows in the cockpit. I don't think the Vans gray would look very good and am thinking of a cream to light tan color. If anyone out there has been there done that I would sure appreciate some advice and paint codes that would be usuable. I sent an E-mail asking for leather samples but haven't heard back yet. I'm sure they are very busy. I am ready to paint some items and would like to get started.
THANKS!!
I am planning on using the cream color Classic Aero leather seats in my RV-9A and need to make a decision on a trim color for all the aluminum that shows in the cockpit. I don't think the Vans gray would look very good and am thinking of a cream to light tan color. If anyone out there has been there done that I would sure appreciate some advice and paint codes that would be usuable. I sent an E-mail asking for leather samples but haven't heard back yet. I'm sure they are very busy. I am ready to paint some items and would like to get started.
THANKS!!
