Thinner for IHC 2150

SDE

Well-known Member
I bought the thinner and the paint from the IH dealer. The thinner part # is B17692. The first ingredient is Mineral spirits with 5 only components. Is there a substitute thinner I can use, instead of driving back to the dealer for more, if I use it all up?
Thank you
SDE
 
How much paint you putting on. I haven't painted anything for 3 or 4 years so don't remember the ratio but if you used hardner I think a can of hardner goes in a gallon of paint and then your not going to use much thinner. A gallon would go a long ways. Here's my Super M with IH paint.
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On one hand you would be alright using mineral spirits or naphtha. Naphtha is a better solvent for paint being sprayed as it dries faster. On the other hand it is a general rule paint is better if you used the specific solvent formulated by the paint company for that paint. It may be fine to use a generic solvent but then again you may shorten the duty life of the paint by substituting the solvent. Is it worth the risk?
 
The manufacturer will say you can't. If the thinner they recommend is mostly mineral spirits you probably can get away with paint thinner which is mineral spirits. Their product name mineral spirits may be tailored closer to the makers paint . To take no risk in any failure use the manufacturer recommended. If you want to save money on generic mineral spirit then spary out a test panel.It's either buy the usually more expensive matching brand nmae or some slight risk of possible trouble. Like I said ; test panel.
 
And for a true test of the test panel you would have to leave it in the sun for a year. An example of prices 1-Shot brand paint reducer [ mineral spirits] 1-Shot brand 20 bucks a quart. Box store paint thinner 10 bucks a gallon. So the paint makers do get you on price for almost the same product.
 
Let me state it this way. When using 1-Shot for lettering or pistriping practice you would use gallon paint thinner for all reducing and clean up. But if you were doing work you wanted to save you would always use the more expensive brand name product just to not chance any problems with paint integrity from reduction.
 
I am a person, who will decide that I want to do something now, and then I will find out that I am missing something. I find that to be annoying and so I am trying to be better prepared for if I run out of thinner.
Thank you
SDDE
 
(quoted from post at 03:59:41 07/10/15) I am a person, who will decide that I want to do something now, and then I will find out that I am missing something. I find that to be annoying and so I am trying to be better prepared for if I run out of thinner.
Thank you
SDDE

I have used mineral spirits to thin the Case-IH paint. Done it many times. I am not a professional painter by any stretch of the imagination, but the mineral spirits have always worked for me just fine.
 
The new stuff is pretty thin, I didn't reduce it when I sprayed it. I did put hardener in it though. Local apc store has a line of paint called all colour, it's less than half price. We'll see haow that stuff lasts.
 

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