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[brnursebmt]

Ive used Duratrax rattle can paint for years with good results but the last two cans Ive bought have been making my bodies curl. Anybody else having this trouble?

[Jay Guard]

I wonder if the bodies (Kelly?/others?) are using a plastic other than Lexan that is adversely affected by Duratrax?

[brnursebmt]

I suppose its possible. But I just painted up some of the new RTR bodies and they curled. Im sure Ralph uses good stuff.

[Bill from NH]

Whatever plastic Kelly used for bodies some 15 or so yrs. ago liked to cure when painted with Pactra paints. I don't recall if it made a difference whether the paint was airbrushed or rattle cans. I don't have any new bodies.

[Pablo]

That is strange, Bobby.

 

Duratrax is made for polycarbonate RC bodies. RTR bodies, as far as I know, are Lexan. So a polycarbonate friendly RC paint shouldn't curl them.

 

What isn't strange is the Kelly bodies curling, because, again, as far as I know they have always been non-Lexan. There is nothing wrong with that, but non-Lexan needs to be painted with acrylics.

 

I'd ask Ralph.

[brnursebmt]

I'm wondering if I could stretch the bodies out on a block of wood and use a hot blow dryer to release the curl?

 

I used to use Tamiya paint, but it is almost impossible to get in my area of Alabama.  I actually drive an hour to a hobby shop in Birmingham Alabama to get the Duratrax. 

[Eddie Fleming]

You didn't get some of that new color Duratrax "Curly Fry Orange" did you? 

 

Seriously if it is curled that bad what have you got to loose by trying to relax it over a block of wood? 

[Noose]

When the Pactra paint became scarce I got a bunch of the Duratrax paint.  Hated the stuff and the odor was worse than the the Pactra even with my spray booth exhaust.  It did not adhere as well either and I had some curling of the bodies.  And that was on Parma bodies.  Only use Parma/Createx/RTR paints since then and that has been around  4 years or more.

[MSwiss]

I'm wondering if I could stretch the bodies out on a block of wood and use a hot blow dryer to release the curl?
 
I used to use Tamiya paint, but it is almost impossible to get in my area of Alabama.  I actually drive an hour to a hobby shop in Birmingham Alabama to get the Duratrax. 

IMO, it's time for you to find a good mail order vendor for Tamiya.

[Jay Guard]

I've been using the Duratrax Yellow (what a surprise) and haven't had a problem with the bodies curing at all, maybe it has to do with the individual colors.  I have to say that my cans are a year or two old so possibly it's a new formulation that isn't advertised on the can that is causing the problem.  I have to say Duratrax doesn't hold quite a good as the old Pactra but I've had only very minor chipping issues and no culing. 

[brnursebmt]

The wooden block and blow dryer trick worked! Now the sides are perfectly straight.

FWIW, Ralph offered to replace the bodies that I painted at no cost even though it was no fault of his. I can use these just fine after heating up the sides.

But I will be taking Mikes advice and have Tamiya paint mailed to me. PCH has reached out and offered to send some.

And Eddie, if I could find that curly fry orange you know I would use it! You know how I am about orange!