Understand Why to Thicken Paint

all right so i'm going to talk a little bit about thickening your paint and and somebody would ask you know why in the world would you want to thicken your paint it's like we talk about thinning our paints all the time we're adding mineral spirits to paint we're adding water to paint we're adding lacquer thinner to paints and to thin them did you know get the viscosity down to make them a um a thinner viscosity product and to spray better now why would you want to thicken your paint and um that's a good question so some products nowadays some of the uh 2k polys and polyurethane products out there are very thin and they don't do what we call hang very well so if you're spraying vertically if you're one of those guys that's spraying like with a psdr system so you can paint cabinets fast and efficiently you're spraying vertically and you're more likely to get runs than if your cabinets are laying down your cabinet doors are laying down flat i mean you simply just can't get runs when they're laying flat you can really load the paint on so one of the drawbacks is spraying vertically yes is runs and if you're spraying your doors um horizontally oh you still got to spare your face frames and you can easily get runs on face frames also if you're using products that have a really thin viscosity to them and they don't hang well and run easy so there are some products that um i've been using you know over the last two years that i really like to thicken the product because it gives them the ability to hang better and then it actually um gives the the product a little bit more body when it actually dries out so i'm going to show you this simple little process i use a product right here this is um cw9002 a water-based thickener that i add to the product and there's there's nothing you know uh really scientific about it you just add as much thickener to the product you want to get the viscosity that you're looking for to get the results that you're looking for and one of the 2k polys i've been recently using it comes out extremely thin and it's been running you know really easily by adding a thickener to it it hangs a lot better and i'm having a lot more success in results with the product this is a thickener right here and i'm not actually sure what the chemical makeup of that thickener is but it kind of just looks like cornstarch and somebody actually in one of my posts had told me that you can thicken your paint with cornstarch which is a food product and i'm not…