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Re: Can you paint then glass?
By:Mike Scarborough
Date: 8/13/2001, 7:47 am
In Response To: Can you paint then glass? (Chuck Birch)

Your bond is only as strong as . . . The Weakest Link . . . Normally you'd have epoxy bonding to wood or a prior coat of epoxy and to the fiberglass. Everyone is pretty confident about the strength of these bonds. When you introduce a layer of paint you add a paint/substrate bond and a paint/epoxy bond. Paint is not a structural adhesive. I don't know how strong it is.

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Can you paint then glass?
Chuck Birch -- 8/13/2001, 12:55 am
Re: Can you paint then glass?
Ziad -- 8/13/2001, 5:25 pm
Re: Aniline Dye
Dave Houser -- 8/13/2001, 3:12 pm
Maybe consider pigment in epoxy *NM*
Jim -- 8/13/2001, 11:15 am
Re: Can you paint then glass?
Mike Scarborough -- 8/13/2001, 7:47 am