What makes OHW so great?
onehitwonder
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Are You Using the Right Paint?
Imagine you send a finished product to your customer and after a few months they return with the clear coat peeling right off. This is more than an inconvenience it is a potential disaster.
A few years ago, a well-known race team had their parts hydrodipped by another facility and after a several months on the track, the clear peeled right off. They came to us wondering what happened and how to fix it. That’s when we worked with industry experts to create a basecoat specifically for hydrographics, in order to prevent this from happening again.
How Does it Work?
OHW Paint's unique formula is designed to soften when dipped, allowing the film to chemically bond with the paint, using the film's activator as a catalyst. The clear coat, when applied, bonds THROUGH the film, into the paint and cures everything as one element. This is what makes OHW different, and the best paint for hydrographics.
How can you tell if you are using the right paint?
Any paint that you can rub immediately after dipping indicates that it has a hardening agent in it, and it's "window has closed" such as a typical automotive basecoat. The problem with this type of basecoat is that after dipping, when clear is applied, there is a good chance of future delamination, as the paint has been unable to accept the film and clear coat chemically. OHW Paint’s window remains open for at least 18 months.
Some Tips
Because OHW Paint does not have a hardener, it will remain soft if applied too heavily. OHW is made up of very dense binders and pigments, which need to be applied in fine coats. We like to tell people to apply color, not paint. A little OHW goes a long way.
When applied properly, OHW Paint is dry to the touch and ready to dip within 20 minutes. After dipping, we recommend that the DIPPED sections are not handled until after rinsing and the part has air-dried.
Get it here: http://www.ohwpaint.com/
Imagine you send a finished product to your customer and after a few months they return with the clear coat peeling right off. This is more than an inconvenience it is a potential disaster.
A few years ago, a well-known race team had their parts hydrodipped by another facility and after a several months on the track, the clear peeled right off. They came to us wondering what happened and how to fix it. That’s when we worked with industry experts to create a basecoat specifically for hydrographics, in order to prevent this from happening again.
How Does it Work?
OHW Paint's unique formula is designed to soften when dipped, allowing the film to chemically bond with the paint, using the film's activator as a catalyst. The clear coat, when applied, bonds THROUGH the film, into the paint and cures everything as one element. This is what makes OHW different, and the best paint for hydrographics.
How can you tell if you are using the right paint?
Any paint that you can rub immediately after dipping indicates that it has a hardening agent in it, and it's "window has closed" such as a typical automotive basecoat. The problem with this type of basecoat is that after dipping, when clear is applied, there is a good chance of future delamination, as the paint has been unable to accept the film and clear coat chemically. OHW Paint’s window remains open for at least 18 months.
Some Tips
Because OHW Paint does not have a hardener, it will remain soft if applied too heavily. OHW is made up of very dense binders and pigments, which need to be applied in fine coats. We like to tell people to apply color, not paint. A little OHW goes a long way.
When applied properly, OHW Paint is dry to the touch and ready to dip within 20 minutes. After dipping, we recommend that the DIPPED sections are not handled until after rinsing and the part has air-dried.
Get it here: http://www.ohwpaint.com/
Comments
There are a lot of advantages with OHW (dip window, no primer, etc.) and we're working with UPS to get our costs down. Unfortunately, to ship it legally, we have to use ground, and their first cost, no matter what, is usually around the $15 mark
But I'll see if it helps to spray activator much quicker.
One was a hard hat. Most likely improper flame treatment because ive never done it before.
Another was on a yeti cup. Maybe not scuffed enough. Maybe that can doesnt do well when it sits on an item for a while. In both cases the paint weakend. The hat flaked and the cup softened. I didnt reattempt the hard hat. But the mini rumbler i just rinsed thoroughly. Light sand. Washed. let dry, reapplied a coat or two, gave it 20 30 minutes and got a good hit. Maybe its just a curse of the color for me. Like this damn gun stock ive dipped 4 friggin times, and everytime something goes horribly wrong. The last time i ran out of activator midway through second pass. Maybe if i did the light tan on the stock theyd cancel eachother out lol.