Glasurit Epoxy primer versus Rustbusters one

Hi jrevillug. Yeah, after making this post I was reading about the Jotun stuff on another forum. Seems pretty impressive.

Looks like etch primer is well out of favour.

I used Glasurit 283 150 on a project and despite being worryingly thin it seemed to do a good job.

I was trawling the net looking for some of that but looks like these Epoxy coatings are the best.

the glasurit will be suited to say respraying the external body work ..something that sprays on great

rustbusters epoxy is thicker suited to maybe underbody repairs etc

I used up my rustbuster and now use jotamastic , you get a huge tin from ebay for similar cost to rustbuster and it seems to be very similar stuff...don't forget the have winter/summer hardner if you get jota

Bought some and started using it today. First impressions are its slightly translucent!



Will report more progress

Yeah. I stirred it thoroughly. It looked a bit translucent when I was brushing it on but next day the stuff that had hardened at the bottom of the pot I stirred it in wasn't translucent.

When dry it seems pretty similar to the rubbery underseal that is on cars from about the 80's onwards.

Gonna be painting over it. With celly primer and black celly topcoat or preferably 1K acrylic/TPA.

I've used celly before but want to try the TPA as the car was originally sprayed in it and I just want to try it lol

This one comes pre-mixed which I'm not really keen on but 1K acrylic thinners seem to be unobtainable, so not much you can do about it
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I've never trusted the one size fits all route. Spent too many years reading books (mostly American) advising never to mix paint systems with pictures of auto shops selling full matched ranges of paint/polish etc.

Reality is I live in Glasgow and the customer experience is a bit different. Everthing you've read is dismissed without even a reply.

When I bought my first celly topcoat they gave me 1K acrylic clear and told me I could thin it 50/50 with celly thinner.

I did so and 3 weeks later whole paint job turned to alligator skin

I found out later that the clear (Mipa C10) is supposed to be used straight from tin and have used it since, this way, and no crazing.

I alos have lots of Metalflake paint but the supplier ran out of thinners so it is kinda redundant.

You'll prob find Jotamastic 87 is a lot cheaper than the rustbuster gear (as in half price), and very similar, but hey you got some.

1k thinners is no prob but I've never bothered, 2k thinners is fine. paints4u I think sell 1k thinners if you do want it, or was it Jawel. Can't recall.

For "normal" automotive epoxy, Lechler is great and easy to get. None of that^ business with lots of codes etc. It's a great sealer, builds OK, sands nicely and isn't massively fussy on curing temps. A bit hard to find on paints4u as they call it "epoxyprimer" one word... but any shop doing Lechler prob has it or can get it easily.