Cascade Crew

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The local paint store really pisses me off. There's 2 choices for automotive paint around here. Evergreen Paint, and Napa. I should just buy all my paint at work(napa) but then it comes out of my check all at once. So when I painted my formula I bought from Evergreen. Cost me a fortune.

Waay back when I tried to paint my chevelle I bought paint from Evergreen. It was my 2nd paint job, so I didnt know much. The people at the counter got my paint and gave me all the hardeners/reducers i'd need to do the job. I go home and proceed to paint my velle. Paint looks good.. for about a day. Then I start getting these rough white blotches. Pretty soon there are large white areas on my new blue paint. I check things out, they gave me a "generic" brand hardener instead of the name brand stuff that matches my paint. Well for that $15 savings it reacted, and reacted badly. So I go back to evergreen.. sorry fella nothing we can do. End up buying more paint and spraying the car again the next week.. Chalk it up to a learning experience...

Well looks like I didnt learn too well. When I painted my formula, I again bought from Evergreen. This time I stepped up and bought Dupont Chroma System, along with all the additives, primers, flex agents, sealers, and reducers required. I have a full shelf of bottles left over, all with nothing marking them but obscure part #s.

When I go to buy the clear, the man says theres 3 different one's I can sell you. The base stuff has nice shine and won't chip as easily as the other 2. As you go up in the shine the clear get's harder and will chip more. So I say this is a daily driver give me the base stuff.

The last couple years i've noticed a whole lot of paint chips in my paint. I do live on a gravel driveway, out in the sticks, so I expected some. But I got to thinkin, man if this is the base I can't imagine how the other stuff might have chipped...

Fast forward to today. I go to get a quart of paint so I can spray my truck's firewall and get the cab set back on the chassis. Figure I've got leftover clear and reducer, I'll just use that up.. I get home and start researching the products and mix ratios I have. Lost the instructions the paint shop gave me last time. Turns out.. the reducer they gave me for the clear is for the better clear. Not recommended for the clear I used. Plus its fast acting. So no wonder my paint chips easily.

Moral of the story.. if you're spending $1200 on paint supplies do your own research and don't trust anyone. All I can say is.. thank god at least it looks decent.. I would've crapped my pants if it had turned white like that first one.