As you may know, I dropped the XJ tank and f'd it up pretty well. It's fixed now, but I noticed something when I dropped it...... it got gas all over it and, as I expected, it wrecked the paint where the gas was. To my knowledge, enamel paints are not supposed to be fuel resistant, so it didn't strike me as odd. But I thought about it today, and just less than a week ago, I tipped the kat tank over when it was sitting on the ground, and got gas all over it, too. So I checked out the kat tank, and the paint is fine. It had a little haze to it, but I rubbed it with a cloth (not with a compound or anything, just a plain shop rag that was nearby) and it looked just like always.
So the XJ tank, painted one week ago with Duplicolor paints got really f'd up with gas, but the kat tank painted a couple years ago with some generic spray paint (it might have been Valspar? Whatever they carry at Lowes that isn't Krylon or Rustoleum) gets severely gassed and it has no problem with it.
My question is, do enamel paints get much, much harder over the course of a couple of years? Or is there that much difference between different brands/types of enamel paint?
So the XJ tank, painted one week ago with Duplicolor paints got really f'd up with gas, but the kat tank painted a couple years ago with some generic spray paint (it might have been Valspar? Whatever they carry at Lowes that isn't Krylon or Rustoleum) gets severely gassed and it has no problem with it.
My question is, do enamel paints get much, much harder over the course of a couple of years? Or is there that much difference between different brands/types of enamel paint?
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