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  • Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭shaywest


    FiSe wrote: »
    According to some interpretation of the EU legislation, it's illegal to use anything else than waterbased paint on cars. And supplier should have records with addresses and names of anyone who buys the paint of them, so it could be forwarded to the authorities in case that they want to check upon the punter and how he comply with the environmental laws, handling of the dangerous waste and all that jazz.

    What the interpreters of the legislation are not saying is, how come, in the name of jebus, that primers, basecoats, spray fillers and clear coats are still solvent based :D
    Or here, some of the new solvent based paints have less VOC than that waterbased stuff.
    Or here, how come that waterbased is double the price of solvent.

    DeBeer is a good paint and 1 litre should do. You add a bit of thinner into the basecoat and hardener and thinner into the clear, so you'd have almost 2 liters of it. Plenty of stuff to do a small car.
    don't forget the energy used to get waterbased paint to dry.i,m no scientist but this surely negates any benefit to the "inviroment"


  • Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭shaywest


    Jesus FiSe, your website is savage. Next time I'm in Limerick for any reason I must pop in - serious airbrushing going on *drroooool*.
    wow just had a look awesome! anyone remember mick russell who used to do this to bikes back in the seventies ,(sadly deceased)


  • Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭Design_Dude


    Would recommend going up north, I get mine in Enniskillen, 2pac oil based, about £35 a litre.


  • Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭Log-on


    i went into halfords today to get a paint colour mixed in a 500ml tin for my paint gone, was told that new laws they can only give out 100mls at a time. so i had a choice of getting 5 * 100mls containes at 15.60 each and the old price since a week ago would of been 26.99 for a 500ml tin. ended up spending 23.99 for a 300 ml aersol can with 100mls of paint in it. im totally respraying a car and bought the professional equipment and now i cant get the paint off them, i was told i just thought it was cheeky having prices up and when i asked for it saying that they cant do it anymore.

    anyone know anywhere i can get a 500ml which i can thin out to use with my gun?

    fair dues the guy gave me a good colour match in the store but its a serious rip off when your forced to change your choice, it would cost a fortune to paint a car by buying cans.


  • Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭hoodrats


    Log-on wrote: »
    i went into halfords today to get a paint colour mixed in a 500ml tin for my paint gone, was told that new laws they can only give out 100mls at a time. so i had a choice of getting 5 * 100mls containes at 15.60 each and the old price since a week ago would of been 26.99 for a 500ml tin. ended up spending 23.99 for a 300 ml aersol can with 100mls of paint in it. im totally respraying a car and bought the professional equipment and now i cant get the paint off them, i was told i just thought it was cheeky having prices up and when i asked for it saying that they cant do it anymore.

    anyone know anywhere i can get a 500ml which i can thin out to use with my gun?

    fair dues the guy gave me a good colour match in the store but its a serious rip off when your forced to change your choice, it would cost a fortune to paint a car by buying cans.


    why would you go to an overpriced british bike shop for car paint?

    why not try a specialist paint store or enquire at your local motor factors?;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭Log-on


    Long story short im a novice and want to learn but thought 500ml in a tin for 26.99 was ok not 5 *100 mils for roughly 75 for the same ammount, i thought that was taking the ...


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