Consider Crosslinking for Topcoats (Optional)

water resistance and chemical resistance is important because there's a lot of cleaners a lot of chemicals underneath people's kitchen sinks so do you really need to cross link the 2800 series 2k poly 2k poly just in in talking to the chemist who designed it and created it for century encodings he doesn't think you need to cross-link it because it's already um a superior product to begin with and he doesn't think it adds a whole lot by cross-linking it but he does highly recommend catalyzing it and catalyzing it is a different process cross-linking it when you cross link it you can it doesn't add a hardener to it so the product doesn't harden it doesn't have a pot life where it's going to harden where it could ruin your sprayer or you cannot use the product after the pot life ends you can take a product that's been catalyzed and the pot life would be over uh five to six hours and then you can re-um cross-link it again so um i think if i said that wrong it's cross-linking so if you cross-link it and the pot life ends you can re-cross-link it you just have to add a certain amount of the product back in fresh product and then you can re-cross-link it it's one of the beauties of a cross-linker but um you're not adding a whole lot to the product and you're spending a lot more money cross-linking it so it's better just to either use it 1k right out of the can or the pot or to catalyze it now we'll talk a little bit about what catalyzing does to the product itself