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Color Preserver Life ?
Posted by: Jeff Davis (---.jax.bellsouth.net)
Date: June 27, 2012 01:37PM

Does CP get too old to use? I've been using out of this bottle for about a year? Had a skin fog up on me, probably wasn't dry enough before I epoxied it...?
Thanks,
Jeff

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Re: Color Preserver Life ?
Posted by: Tom Kirkman (Moderator)
Date: June 27, 2012 01:43PM

It does age and at some point will become too thick to use easily. If you can still get good penetration into the threads, it's probably okay to use.

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Re: Color Preserver Life ?
Posted by: Don Morse (---.dhcp.aldl.mi.charter.com)
Date: June 27, 2012 01:55PM

A buddy of mine gave me a half used bottle that he had last used in 2001 and it was still good.

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Super Tight Lines......Don

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Re: Color Preserver Life ?
Posted by: Jeff Davis (---.jax.bellsouth.net)
Date: June 27, 2012 05:45PM

I used this over a snakeskin inlay. It seemed fine when I put it on. It's been 24 hours and it's cloudy and the epoxy doesn't seem to have hardened as usual. Is there anything I can do, short of cutting it all off, clean up the blank and using new skin?
Thanks,
Jeff
P.S. would heat from a hairdryer help to see if it will clear up?

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Re: Color Preserver Life ?
Posted by: bill boettcher (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: June 27, 2012 07:17PM

Every one yells at me for doing it -- But water based CP can be thinned

Try adding a few drops of water if it is water based - Mix very well It may mix with what is on and help it to thin and dry

Bill - willierods.com

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Re: Color Preserver Life ?
Posted by: Steve Mcleod (---.145.112.82.dyn.jtglobal.com)
Date: June 27, 2012 08:02PM

Nothing wrong with thinning it. Doc Ski when using flexcoat cp on his weaves always thinned it. I thin flexcoat cp with distilled water when i use it on the top layer of a tiger wrap, and i'm still using a bottle of flexcoat cp that i bought in 2005... still works perfectly.

Jersey, Channel Islands. (U.K.)

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Re: Color Preserver Life ?
Posted by: William (Bill) Jones (---.pool.starband.net)
Date: June 28, 2012 10:25AM

Jeff. it sounds like you did not allow enough time for the CP to dry before you coated it with the epoxy. The CP is actually like a watered down Elmers glue or a latex based paint and must air dry. If that is the case, you might be better off to start over. The epoxy will cure as a result of a chemical reaction and will prevent the moisture in the CP to escape. A hair dryer/heat gun probably won't help the situation.

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Re: Color Preserver Life ?
Posted by: Jeff Davis (---.jax.bellsouth.net)
Date: June 28, 2012 10:29AM

Thanks all & William.. I think that was the answer I was expecting, but not wanting to hear... :)
~Jeff~

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Re: Color Preserver Life ?
Posted by: bill boettcher (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: June 28, 2012 11:41AM

Re read you post William is right that the fogging will not go away
I have used several different CPs and went back to good old Flex Coat But ya have to let it dry well

Bill - willierods.com

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