Tinting marine paint

[Linda Hill]

Our news feed has been down, so I don't think this got out earlier:

In article <strotter-280...@ppp1205.inreach.com>
stro...@inreach.com (Scott Trotter) wri
tes:
>Greetings:
>
>My question, though, is this: can I take my cans of R.E.P. (Rather
>Expensive Paint) down to the local paint-store, with their little
>color-matching scanner, and have them tint this type of paint?
>
>Thanks in advance - S.T.

This is exactly what we did when we painted Nakia's settee
lockers. We got some Z-Spar semigloss white and took it in
to the paint store where we tried to match one of the locker
covers to one of their color chips.

The guy mixing the paint warned us that the color might not match
because of the formulation differences between the marine enamal and
the household latex paint they usually mix. But it was pretty close.
The marine paint turned out a bit lighter.

If you have to match something exactly, my take is you are going
to have a hard time of it. But if you have a general idea of how
you want the result to look and you don't mind experimenting a little
(read: waste a pint of paint) you should be able to obtain your results.


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