Epoxy with uv protection.

Barry

Barry

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As some of you know from the other threads, I have been playing with the UV protection with our epoxy, even though our epoxy (black) has showed us around 5 years life when exposed to the sun where most epoxies die inside of 3 - 6 months, we are making it better!

The black and black only at this point that we made this week has extra UV protection, we still have around 100 gallons of the old batch but that should be gone by middle of next week and we will ship the new. (Quarts will not have for about two months)

I used 1/2 the amount of UV I wanted to but as we go along I will increase, at this point it should last as long as any mid grade SS paint.

You will notice no difference in spraying or drying or handling the epoxy with this addition as I have tested and retested but reason I cut it in half is just to make sure the epoxy is still bullet proof.

I have no plans to add it to the other colors as they are never exposed as an topside paint but our black epoxy has been used as hood strips on cudas and rat rods so the protection was warranted.
 
That is great news. We are working on a 98 Jag that has been modified with a blown LS something Chevy crate motor and we will be adding a hood scoop to the Jag hood to clear the blower. The owner wanted it a black matte finish
 
Epoxy as top coat

Anyone have tips on how the control the gloss when using black epoxy as a top coat? I am going to use as a " rat rod" type finish on my shop truck. I shot the hood yesterday ,just sort of feeling it out.I inducted the product for two hours.I had the heat on so the shop was 70 and dry.I sprayed the first coat unreduced pretty wet and let flash 2 hrs. Srayed the next coat mixed 1:1:1/2 with 875 using a 1.4 tip. Shot it wet with about a 50% over lap,just about as I would clear. It turned out with a little more gloss and image than I would like. Do you think further reduction or dropping down to 860 reducer would lower the gloss? Thanks any help appreciated.
 
The 860 would do it especially if the reducer allows you to spray it thinner.
 
What Bob is saying is the faster the reducer the flatter it will get.

Also if using medium reducer the more you put in the flatter it will get but not as flat as a faster reducer.

Flash times are very important when killing the gloss.
 
Thanks Barry. How much more than 25% reduction with 875 can I go? I let it flash 2hrs. Was that not enough? Or to long?
 
30 minutes is good or longer, you might try fifty percent and higher air pressure will also decrease gloss.
 
Great News Barry, will have to try some of this on future projects , thanks for always being innovative and striving to make your products even better. Joe
 
Barry,

I want to get a couple of quarts of black epoxy to shoot some karting stuff that'll see alot of sun (I'm also planning to shoot my Jeep's hardtop). Is the UV protection now a permanent part of the epoxy nowadays? I looked at the data sheets and 2010 manual on the SPI website but nothing is mentioned.

Also, do you have any jobbers around Richmond Virginia?

Thanks,
Basscat
 
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