kimfoo
New Member
Dont use toplac.
I've done a car with brightside and although it turned out to be a joke compared to laquer, the paint was relatively tough (for enamel) and could be repaired with the spraycans of putty and primer you can get at shops.
The next car I spraypainted with brightside bit by bit with a cheap compressor and gun. Much less sanding was required. However, when I went to get another 1L can I found out that they no longer have it (in australia at least) and I was charged more for less volume (750ml) of toplac.
Toplac did not match the brightside and I had to go over the panels. But here is the problem. Toplac is just Alkyd Enamel with some silicones for easy levelling. Alkyl is the crap that has not been used on cars for a very long time because it is soft and easily comes off when scratched by trollies etc. Usually an enamel hardener is mixed to make it set harder.
But the biggest problem by far is that if you ever need to repair it you can never use any of the common sprays and putties based on lacquer. With Brightside you can.
Now thanks to Toplac I need to strip 2 doors, bonnet and front sides because just a few stray squirts of primer on an adjacent panel have bubbled and lifted the paint.
Guys, it lifts within 5 seconds of any thinner touching it even after weeks of drying.
Boating shops have other brands of urethane paint, get them if you must use the roll and tip on your commodore. But remember that the roll and tip for cars is popular in the US because they mostly dont have lacquer any more, which is just so easy to spray because it dries in a flash. They use 2 pack whi
I've done a car with brightside and although it turned out to be a joke compared to laquer, the paint was relatively tough (for enamel) and could be repaired with the spraycans of putty and primer you can get at shops.
The next car I spraypainted with brightside bit by bit with a cheap compressor and gun. Much less sanding was required. However, when I went to get another 1L can I found out that they no longer have it (in australia at least) and I was charged more for less volume (750ml) of toplac.
Toplac did not match the brightside and I had to go over the panels. But here is the problem. Toplac is just Alkyd Enamel with some silicones for easy levelling. Alkyl is the crap that has not been used on cars for a very long time because it is soft and easily comes off when scratched by trollies etc. Usually an enamel hardener is mixed to make it set harder.
But the biggest problem by far is that if you ever need to repair it you can never use any of the common sprays and putties based on lacquer. With Brightside you can.
Now thanks to Toplac I need to strip 2 doors, bonnet and front sides because just a few stray squirts of primer on an adjacent panel have bubbled and lifted the paint.
Guys, it lifts within 5 seconds of any thinner touching it even after weeks of drying.
Boating shops have other brands of urethane paint, get them if you must use the roll and tip on your commodore. But remember that the roll and tip for cars is popular in the US because they mostly dont have lacquer any more, which is just so easy to spray because it dries in a flash. They use 2 pack whi
