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Old 09-23-2006, 07:25 PM   #21
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Re: How Much Do You Thin Your Latex Paint?

I dont thin and never will

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Re: How Much Do You Thin Your Latex Paint?

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I dont thin and never will
Why not? If you use the approved thinners in the right proportions it won't affect the paint at all, ever. The only thing it MIGHT do is make it harder to get coverage in one coat, but that would mean you thinned too much which would affect the integrity of the paint.
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Whatever you do, NEVER combine latex paint with an epoxy-based paint. I wasted 3gallons of premium primer when I did just that ...
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Whatever you do, NEVER mix latex with an epoxy-based paint. I wasted 3gallons of premium primer that way ...
GTFO of here. Are you serious?
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Whatever you do, NEVER combine latex paint with an epoxy-based paint. I wasted 3gallons of premium primer when I did just that ...
You bumped a 4+ year old thread for that?
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I dont thin and never will
THD thins it for me.
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You bumped a 4+ year old thread for that?
Four-year-old thread or new thread, for purposes of learning, what's the difference? The information is still relevant.

The messages on this board are archived for at least as many years because the information, at some time or another, will prove useful, as it did for me, four+ years after it was originally posted . . . lighten up . . .
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Re: How Much Do You Thin Your Latex Paint?

For brush work I thin my latex with floetrol, which I understand is no longer available.

Anyone know of a replacement for it?
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For brush work I thin my latex with floetrol, which I understand is no longer available.

Anyone know of a replacement for it?
Floetrol unavailable? I purchased a bottle a few days ago . . .
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Floetrol unavailable? I purchased a bottle a few days ago . . .
Are you in the US? Might be a Canadian thing.
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Are you in the US? Might be a Canadian thing.
I'm in Southern California . . . got it either at Vista Paints or Lowes, can't remember which . . .
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Rats, not only can you get the floetrol, you're not buried in snow. I'm so jealous.
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Jock, the painter, often would thin his paint so it would go further. So when the Church decided to do some deferred maintenance, Jock was able to put in the low bid, and got the job. As always, he thinned his paint way down with turpentine.

One day while he was up on the scaffolding -- the job almost finished -- he heard a horrendous clap of thunder, and the sky opened.

The downpour washed the thinned paint off the church and knocked Jock off his scaffold and onto the lawn among the gravestones and puddles of thinned and worthless paint.

Jock knew this was a warning from the Almighty, so he got on his knees and cried: “Oh, God! Forgive me! What should I do?”

And from the thunder, a mighty voice: “REPAINT! REPAINT! AND THIN NO MORE!”
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Jock, the painter, often would thin his paint so it would go further. So when the Church decided to do some deferred maintenance, Jock was able to put in the low bid, and got the job. As always, he thinned his paint way down with turpentine.

One day while he was up on the scaffolding -- the job almost finished -- he heard a horrendous clap of thunder, and the sky opened.

The downpour washed the thinned paint off the church and knocked Jock off his scaffold and onto the lawn among the gravestones and puddles of thinned and worthless paint.

Jock knew this was a warning from the Almighty, so he got on his knees and cried: “Oh, God! Forgive me! What should I do?”

And from the thunder, a mighty voice: “REPAINT! REPAINT! AND THIN NO MORE!”
Good one!
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Four-year-old thread or new thread, for purposes of learning, what's the difference? The information is still relevant.

The messages on this board are archived for at least as many years because the information, at some time or another, will prove useful, as it did for me, four+ years after it was originally posted . . . lighten up . . .
Actually your post was no more on topic than mine was. I will try and take your advice and lighten up.
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Actually your post was no more on topic than mine was. I will try and take your advice and lighten up.
Actually, my post followed the momentum of the discussion when posters started talking about mixing a gallon of this with a gallon of that . . . to equate the level of irrelevance of my post with the level of irrelevance in your post is hardly a fair assessment. . . .

Just because I have less than a handful of posts doesn't mean I should sit here quietly and allow you to badger me with disrespectful comments . . . I only take disrespectful comments from my friends . . .

Well, in any case, in order to respect others who might be reading this thread and trying to find USEFUL information, this will be my final post on this matter between us . . . if you wish to communicate with me further, please PM me.
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Rats, not only can you get the floetrol, you're not buried in snow. I'm so jealous.
Hey Katoman, if you send me a bottle of Viagra, I'll send you a bottle of Floetrol . . . either product can spice up anyone's sex life . . .
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Actually, my post followed the momentum of the discussion when posters started talking about mixing a gallon of this with a gallon of that . . . to equate the level of irrelevance of my post with the level of irrelevance in your post is hardly a fair assessment. . . .

Just because I have less than a handful of posts doesn't mean I should sit here quietly and allow you to badger me with disrespectful comments . . . I only take disrespectful comments from my friends . . .

Well, in any case, in order to respect others who might be reading this thread and trying to find USEFUL information, this will be my final post on this matter between us . . . if you wish to communicate with me further, please PM me.
I think you should take your own advice and lighten up. There is an ignore feature here and you can add my name to it if you wish.

I know we are splitting hairs here but I do not think I was badgering you or being disrespectful to you. I made a smart ass comment in my first post to you and then followed it up with another comment which I believe to be true. There is a lot of banter mixed into the threads Sal.

Welcome to the paint section of CT Sal.
Sounds like you learned a very good lesson that epoxy and latex do not mix.
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I think you should take your own advice and lighten up. There is an ignore feature here and you can add my name to it if you wish.

I know we are splitting hairs here but I do not think I was badgering you or being disrespectful to you. I made a smart ass comment in my first post to you and then followed it up with another comment which I believe to be true. There is a lot of banter mixed into the threads Sal.

Welcome to the paint section of CT Sal.
Sounds like you learned a very good lesson that epoxy and latex do not mix.
No hard feelings . . . I must have just been overly sensitive is all . . . you know, new kid on the block syndrome, I guess . . .
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Actually your post was no more on topic than mine was. I will try and take your advice and lighten up.
Yah, lighten up Vanilla!
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