Is Glasurit considered a high-quality paint among professional painters?

 

The company's been around a long time, their product is highly regarded by some painters I know although I have never used any myself. I am certain, like most other manufacturers that they offer different "grades" and types of finishes. If you or your painter is familiar and comfortable using the brand, I'm sure your result will be satisfactory!

 

Yes it is. I have shot it on many occasions....without any issues or problems. But then again...I did not try to "push" the product beyond its designed mixtures and or application film thicknesses. So if you and or your painter try to become a "mad scientist" and change things....and alter mixtures and or application processes. I do not know what the end result would be like. Maybe someone else has "pushed" the limits and knows what you can get by with.

More information that you may or may not know or have considered:

The reason why I mentioned "pushing" the limits. Is sometimes...depending on what type of paint guns are being used. Back when I shot this stuff. I had the old SATA HVLP NR92 spray gun..which was slow (travel speed) to apply paint..but worked great. BUT it required be to use one grade slower reducer/thinner for the basecoat...so it would stay "wetter" longer...and flow out...and give me enough time to get around the car...and allow the basecoat to "melt-in" or "tie-in" to the basecoat that I just shot....so you do not end up with a "dry-spray" egde in your basecoat. Which is important in some colors. That "dry-spray" or "dry-lap" can cause for problems in metallics. Also if the basecoat flashed to fast...and it is humid...and you do not have a very good moisture removing system in the air line to remove the moisture. Your color can blush. Which is a bad thing.

Sometimes painters will overthin/reduce the basecoat to compensate for dry-spray or dry-lapping...and then they POUND the basecoat on in attempts to keep it wetter longer....which isn not good. But what I have found is to use a slower reducer/thinner...and give it more flash time...in between coats. That way...your basecoat lays down FLAT...and makes the clear coat flatter...due to the lack of "orange peel" in the texture of your basecoat...because you are using the wrong reducer/thinner grade for the temperature at the time of spraying. Even if your basecoat lays down flat...the wrong choice in reducer or hardener for the current temperatures can effect the outcome also of your clearcoat. The paint job may take longer...but comes out awesome. Some painters are PRODUCTION minded and just try to get done with it. Hopefully your painter will take the time to get it right for you.

This goes for ALL paints and not just Glasurit.

"DUB"

 

Is this the stuff from South Africa? Someone a while back mentioned to me some Paint system from there.

 

Glasurit is a top of the line product. I use their 55 line and the 90 line waterborne in my shop. this paint has best gloss, and is very user friendly.it is oe on all German cars as well as Maybach and Rolls Royce.it is also used by Chip Foose in his shop.the colors match corvettes perfectly and they have colors for cars in the 1930s.you can't go wrong with this paint.

 

foose uses RM/DIAMONT polyester based system.


55 line is very user friendly and lays beautiful. same with their 923 clears

55 line really stands out in silver metalics as used by the infamous mercedes silver really holds up to uv fade out

 

Diamont is a solvent based paint. southern california shops now must use waterborne basecoats.

 

Your right on that jbl i always forget that Cali took that huge leap to switch everyone over to waterborne.

 

The rest of the states are not far behind. Canada has been 100% waterborne since June 9th. Witch make me think, How do they ship it? its cold in Canada.

The EPA is cracking down big time. I got carded two days ago for buying lacquer thinner from Lowe's. Got home and the lacquer was strange. It had a funny smell and was brown in color.