tbzep
06-14-2006, 06:15 PM
I'm (insert expletives here) with the last couple of paint jobs I've done. This is the second rocket in a row that had paint crazing. This time I was doing the yellow on my EAC Viper. I used an older can of Krylon John Deere Yellow because the plans call for a yellow-orange color. I've used 10-15 year old Krylon cans before with great results, so this is beginning to gnaw at me. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the paint has had too extreme of a temperature cycling this year. I keep all my paint in the same place that I have for 14 years, but this year is the first for this. I was putting it on over Krylon Gloss White from a new can.
What's more annoying is that I can't find John Deere Yellow around here anymore. My can is #1804. Going by the website, John Deere Yellow no longer exists as a general purpose interior-exterior paint. I've found it listed as #1816 on a few websites, but that number doesn't show up on the Krylon site either. I don't think Sun Yellow #1806 will look right, but I may have to use it. I've got plenty of time to look for other paint now because I'll have to let the paint that I couldn't wip off fully cure before I can sand it off and start from the ground up again. :mad:
What's more annoying is that I can't find John Deere Yellow around here anymore. My can is #1804. Going by the website, John Deere Yellow no longer exists as a general purpose interior-exterior paint. I've found it listed as #1816 on a few websites, but that number doesn't show up on the Krylon site either. I don't think Sun Yellow #1806 will look right, but I may have to use it. I've got plenty of time to look for other paint now because I'll have to let the paint that I couldn't wip off fully cure before I can sand it off and start from the ground up again. :mad: