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Incorporate Paint Thickener

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Catalyzing your paint. Do's and Dont's!

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The presenter demonstrates adding a thickener to the Centurion 2800 series paint. He uses a spoon to gradually add approximately one tablespoon of Centurion Water-Based Thickener (CW-9002) to the paint. The thickener is described as adding body to the paint, making it thicker, improving its ability to hang when spraying, reducing runs, and allowing for a heavier mil thickness. This is an optional step based on personal preference and desired paint consistency, especially for dark or deep base colors.

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  • Spoon

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All right, so I'm getting ready to do the catalyzing process and you can catalyze Centering and coding. You can not catalyze it or you can catalyze it all the way up to 15%. You know, why would you not catalyze it? Because you really want to add that durability, the hardness, the bonding capability, that really soft buttery like feel, chip resistance, chemical resistance. You want to add that to the paint. The catalyst is money. So it does cost money. It's not cheap. So that's one of the drawbacks to it. So the more you catalyze it, the more money it's going to cost. You can catalyze it up to 15%. Whenever I'm doing furniture or whenever I'm doing kitchen cabinets, I always catalyze it at 15%. Now you'll give it take a half an ounce or something. You don't have to be exactly precise. It called I'm catalyzing the furniture at 8%. And it came out to 5.1. So five ounces will work. It's so give or take right in there. I've got my 64 ounce measuring cup. And I just buy these these standard measuring cups that have ounces on them. There's a lot of other crazy things on ratios and stuff. I don't pay attention to any of that. It's just the side

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