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MTA farm

04-17-2008 18:34:40




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I am doing some painting in some areas after few mintues the paint started to get a crackly look. Why is this happening?




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Circus

04-19-2008 06:16:44




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 Re: paint cracking in reply to MTA farm, 04-17-2008 18:34:40  
Solvent from the new paint is attacking the underlying paint.



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CNKS

04-18-2008 17:27:03




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 Re: paint cracking in reply to MTA farm, 04-17-2008 18:34:40  
Rod provided an excellent link. Taking the easy way out, without reading the whole link (I have read it before) my recommendation is to clean the surface (chemically strip the old paint off, and remove all chemical residue, then treat with wax and grease remover) use quality paint and primer from the SAME manufacturer. Follow the instructions exactly, including the time between coats. Do this and it will not crack, regardless of what you did wrong the first time. There are no shortcuts if you want a quality job. What you have sounds to me like an incompatible primer and paint, or if you painted over the old finish it needs to be sealed. If not the cause is in the link.

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Rod (NH)

04-17-2008 19:11:10




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 Re: paint cracking in reply to MTA farm, 04-17-2008 18:34:40  
Cracking



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B-maniac

04-19-2008 20:11:18




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 Re: paint cracking in reply to Rod (NH), 04-17-2008 19:11:10  
Could use a little more info. What are you painting over? Did it crack the first coat or not until your last coat?? How many coats did you apply and how long did you wait between them?? What paint are you useing? Sometimes waiting toooo long between coats or waiting tooo long before applying the last coat will let the prior coat to skin over too much and the skin will be too rigid and when you apply the last wet coat it will "fracture" the skinned over surface with small uniform cracks or "buckleing" surface. There isn"t any "fix" , once they are there they are there. Are you absolutely sure they were not there in the old paint? Sometimes you wont see them in old faded paint until you either wipe it with wet wax and grease remover or you put wet paint over it (too late). With more info we could pin-point the problem.

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