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skyeenter
Hello group. Registered here hoping a few of you could give me some information on Dupont Cronar.
I'm a newbie to the painting end of motorcycle repair and I've got 3 Honda PC 800's to paint. Thought I found a deal from a painter who was getting rid of paint. Said nothing was wrong with the paint. Multiple sizes and colors, about 7 gallons, 45 quarts and around 70 pints. Most being Cronar, quite a bit in metalic, some it real beautiful colors, most of them full. Got all that for $45.
Then I discovered there is no information on Cronar on the web. Called Dupont, told they removed it in late 90's early 2000's. Tech support would hardly acknowledge that there was even such a product made by Dupont. Said all references to it were removed from their archives and destroyed.
Called the local Dupont jobber, his conversation was almost like I was conducting a spy ring investigation, cautious, hesitant, evasive. Finally I got him to open up. He explained that Dupont changed the product line and introduced Chromabase in short order to replace Cronar. They ordered him to dispose of the product and all paper references to it. Even though they reimbursed him for his stock, they hosed him for the cost of environmental disposal, which exceeded the reimbursement by a couple thousand dollars. He said I should do a trial and error with high quality reducers and find the one that works. So that was a dead end. Which leads me here.
First, was Cronar removed because of safety issues or quality issues? Seems unusual for a company to kill off a product line as abruptly as Dupont did.
Second, can someone tell me what SPI products can be used to spray this paint?
If anyone knows the story of Cronar's demise I'd appreciate getting the final chapter of this hunt.
There was some guy selling reducer and activator on ebay, but it was about 14 years old, that seems way too old for me. Any thoughts on old reducer/activator appreciated.?
I'd appreciate all the help I can get on this. Thanks, skye
I'm a newbie to the painting end of motorcycle repair and I've got 3 Honda PC 800's to paint. Thought I found a deal from a painter who was getting rid of paint. Said nothing was wrong with the paint. Multiple sizes and colors, about 7 gallons, 45 quarts and around 70 pints. Most being Cronar, quite a bit in metalic, some it real beautiful colors, most of them full. Got all that for $45.
Then I discovered there is no information on Cronar on the web. Called Dupont, told they removed it in late 90's early 2000's. Tech support would hardly acknowledge that there was even such a product made by Dupont. Said all references to it were removed from their archives and destroyed.
Called the local Dupont jobber, his conversation was almost like I was conducting a spy ring investigation, cautious, hesitant, evasive. Finally I got him to open up. He explained that Dupont changed the product line and introduced Chromabase in short order to replace Cronar. They ordered him to dispose of the product and all paper references to it. Even though they reimbursed him for his stock, they hosed him for the cost of environmental disposal, which exceeded the reimbursement by a couple thousand dollars. He said I should do a trial and error with high quality reducers and find the one that works. So that was a dead end. Which leads me here.
First, was Cronar removed because of safety issues or quality issues? Seems unusual for a company to kill off a product line as abruptly as Dupont did.
Second, can someone tell me what SPI products can be used to spray this paint?
If anyone knows the story of Cronar's demise I'd appreciate getting the final chapter of this hunt.
There was some guy selling reducer and activator on ebay, but it was about 14 years old, that seems way too old for me. Any thoughts on old reducer/activator appreciated.?
I'd appreciate all the help I can get on this. Thanks, skye
