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HEALEYJAG

HEALEYJAG

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I am looking at a car that was finished with Imron paint. Can you colorsand and buff this paint like normal finishes?



Pete
 
HEALEYJAG said:
I am looking at a car that was finished with Imron paint. Can you colorsand and buff this paint like normal finishes?



Pete
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NO!!!; Additionally, it is classified as a hazardous material which requires special support equipment to use Fwiw--Keoke
 
I actually had a Bugeye that was painted with imron.....Suffered a front end collision(not my fault). We (my wife and I) stripped it with metal paint scrapers. It fell off in sheets and really wasn't that difficult to strip.

This car I am considering was painted 20 years ago(an unfinished project). He says the paint is "perfect" and may be Imron???



Thanks for the info...ANY OTHER PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WILL BE APPRECIATED.

Pete
 
Imron was sold as a hard as nails top coat. If you read the tin back in the day, it gave you a "window" to colour sand and buff.
One of the main problem with Imron is what you are discribing...if the paint fractured, it popped of in large quantities.
My father had a pick-up painted in Imron back in the early 80's. Was easy to keep clean, but I would not use it on a small vehicle.
 
At Austin-Healey West back in the late 70s, we painted rebuilt Healey engines after assembly with Dupont's Imron, so they wouldn't leak!
 
Limited color choices...not sure if custom colors are/were available, so likely the car is not color-correct, if that matters.
 
My car was painted in 1982 with regular paint for the color coat and Imron for the clear coat. I got a stone chip that took a flake the size of a quarter from the front bonnet. Other than that, the paint looks like new.
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We painted construction equipment with it years ago, only because it gets so hard it's almost impossible to chip it and will hold a shine for years. If I was looking a a car and found out it was painted with Imron, I'd avoid it just because of the work involved to remove it. <span style="color: #FF0000">You also would not want to breath the dust! I can't stress that enough!</span> I'm talking about the paint, not their clear coat which we didn't use. JMHO. PJ
 
I was curious what element in the long dry Imron product caused more of a risk than other finishes when sanded (noting a previous post caution with respect). I googled the MSDS of one of the paint lines. Honestly, as a non-chemist I still don't know, silica dust maybe??? I do what I can to stay safe, but I usually want to understand why.

https://pc.dupont.com/dpc/en/US/html/visitor/b/imr/home.html

https://pc.dupont.com/dpc/en/US/html/visitor/common/pdfs/b/product/dr/MSDS/US_en_GNRC_7-0_RFN.pdf
 
AEW said:
I was curious what element in the long dry Imron product caused more of a risk than other finishes when sanded (noting a previous post caution with respect). I googled the MSDS of one of the paint lines. Honestly, as a non-chemist I still don't know, silica dust maybe??? I do what I can to stay safe, but I usually want to understand why.

https://pc.dupont.com/dpc/en/US/html/visitor/b/imr/home.html

https://pc.dupont.com/dpc/en/US/html/visitor/common/pdfs/b/product/dr/MSDS/US_en_GNRC_7-0_RFN.pdf
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The Hazardous Air Pollutant "HAPS" is Lead Chromate
 
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