Can you suggest alternatives that are not toxic and can be obtained in appropriate matt colours?
All the good stuff is toxic, but you can get away with using a respirator with good filters. They have a limit to how long the filters can be used to full effect once they are out of the bag tho, 8 hours is about the limit.. & wear a tyvek suit so your clothes don’t get saturated with the inherent nastiness.. & gloves.
PPG has an aviation paint line. The *old* DuPont Imron is still available & another line is Alumigrip which is used on refinishing the likes of Lears & Gulfstreams etc (& the former TFC Tigercat). I’m not sure what they sell in the UK these days.. & I should know because my step brother has a paint factory in Eastleigh (Akron Paint) that supplies Ford among others.
Another alternative to etch primer is epoxy. The great thing about expoxy primer is that is sticks to anything & everything sticks to it. The PPG DPLF line is excellent & is available is 6 colours: black, white, beige, blue, blue/green & “red lead” (altho it doesn’t contain any lead, the LF part of the name means Lead Free)
You’l need some tackrags to sort out the dust after you wipe down the bear metal with laquer thinner. They do make “wax & grease remover” to clean the metal, but laquer thinner is cheaper.
Most coatings have a *recoat* window. I usually do the epoxy one day & the rest the next.
& *warmth* is your friend when you start spraying.
When you have the paint mixed just tell them you want it flat/matt finish & they will put an additive in that causes the gloss to go away.
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