Note Pot Life and Clean-up Time

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

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After thoroughly mixing the catalyst, the presenter advises noting the exact time the catalyst was added. This is crucial because catalyzed paint has a limited 'pot life' (the time it remains usable before hardening). He states that for his current conditions (70°F room temperature and 8% catalysis), the pot life is approximately 5 hours. He highlights that higher temperatures will decrease the pot life. It's important to be mindful of this timeframe to ensure the paint is used and the spraying equipment is cleaned before the paint hardens, which could damage the sprayer.

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pot life because you could ruin your sprayer. If you don't clean it out, you'll be for it hardens because it will harden inside your sprayer. So my pot life is going to be five hours. Once I'm done catalyzing it, stirring it in, I'm going to have Luke mark down our time that we catalyze it and our time we need to clean. That's very important to pay attention to. It's good if you have a phone just a set in the alarm about 30 minutes before, you know, it's time to clean it up. So it's a reminder that the pot life will change according to the conditions room conditions or outside conditions. If it's wherever you're spraying it's really hot. It's going to decrease your pot life. So if it's 95 degrees here inside where I'm at, it's probably going to decrease it down to about four and a half hours. So pay attention to that. So I've got my product mixed up going to note my time. What time is it? So it's 11.30 at five hours to that, you know, 70 degrees inside here. So we got 11.30 and then what's our clean time, Luke? 4.30 we need to make sure we clean up. We're just going to be doing one piece of furniture with this black. So it's going to be pretty fast.

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