Mix Polyurethane with Catalyst

prep process you can not catalyze it or you can catalyze it all the way up to 15% you know why would you um not catalyze it because you really want to add that durability the hardness the bonding capability that really soft buttery like f chip resistance chemical resistance you want to add that to the paint uh 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 kitchen cabinets I always catalyze it at 15% now you know give or take um you know a half an ounce or something you don't have to be exactly precise it called um I'm catalyzing the furniture at 8% and it came out to 5.1 so um 5 oz will work it's um so give or take right in there I've got my 64 o measuring cup and I just buy these these um standard measuring cups that have ounces on them there's a lot of other crazy things I'm r Shields and stuff I don't pay attention to any of that it's just the side right here that measures um ounces so this measured out 64 Oz did the calculation 8% it comes up to 5% catalyst so I'm just going to measure out on here 5 oz 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 um you're going to flash Harden this stuff it's going to uh make it get hard super fast you want to just slowly stirred in so I'm going to measure off my ounces 5 oz so pretty close to five 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 so I'm just going to slowly stir it in the Catalyst does you don't have to have a sweat time to it like some apoc see 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 cuz you could ruin your sprayer if you don't clean it out you know before it hardens CU it will harden inside your sprayer so my pot life is going to be 5 hours once I'm done catalyzing it stirring it in I'm 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 to set an alarm about 30 minutes before you know it's…