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Mixing Centurion 2K Poly with Catalyst

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Easy Furniture Refinishing. One Day Furniture Makeover.

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What happens here

Pour the Centurion 2800 Series 2K Polyurethane paint into a measuring cup. Then, carefully measure 5 ounces of Centurion Catalyst (CW-4002) for every 64 ounces of paint, equating to approximately 8% catalysis. Slowly add the catalyst to the paint while continuously stirring to ensure even distribution and prevent flash hardening. The presenter explains that catalyzing the paint is crucial for enhancing durability, hardness, bonding capability, chip resistance, and chemical resistance. Without catalyzing, the paint would lack these premium features. He cautions that catalyst adds to the cost but significantly improves performance, especially for furniture and kitchen cabinets.

Goal: Prepare the 2K polyurethane paint by accurately mixing it with the Centurion Catalyst for enhanced durability.

Tools and materials

  • 64-ounce Measuring Cup Standard — Accurately measuring paint and catalyst
  • Centurion Catalyst — Hardening the polyurethane for durability
  • Safety Gloves — Protecting hands from paint and chemicals
  • Stir Stick Standard — Slowly mixing the catalyst into the paint

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I'm getting ready to do the catalyzing process and you can catalyze Centurion coating. You can not catalyze it or you can catalyze it all the way up to 15%. 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, chipper 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 do 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 or take half an ounce or something. You don't have to be exactly precise. They called on catalyzing the furniture at 8%. It came out to 5.1. So five ounces will work. It's some give or take right in there. I've got my 64 ounce measuring cup. I just buy these, these standard measuring cups that have ounces on them. There's a lot of other crazy things on these shelves and stuff. I don't pay attention to any of that. It's just the side right here that measures ounces. So this measured out 64 ounces did the calculation 8%. It comes up to 5% catalyze. Now I'm going to pour my catalyst in there. Here's centering catalyst. Don't be fooled by this. This is one that got paints filled all over it. It's the exact same thing. Just using this first when it was shipped. One of the gallons of paint actually opened up and got all over it. So I'm just going to measure out on here 5 ounces. Now when you dump in your catalyst, this is extremely important. You don't want to just dump it in right there. If you just dump it in, what's going to happen is you're going to flash hard in this stuff. It's going to make it get hard super fast. You want to just slowly stir it in. So I'm going to measure off my ounces, 5 ounces. Pretty close to 5. Now I'm just going to use a stir stick. I'm going to start to slowly stir in my catalyst. I do not want to dump it in fast, super fast. I'm just going to slowly stir it in. The catalyst doesn't, you don't have to have a sweat time to it. Like some epoxy, some two-part coatings. You have to let it sweat, which means you got to let it set for a certain period of time and activate it. There is no sweat time on this product. As soon as I mix it, I'm ready to go to start spraying it. I do have a pot life. You need to pay attention to that pot life because you could…

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