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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:45 am
NO COMPARISON.... Omni is 56.4% solids while Tamco is over 78% solids. The Omni is not a "build epoxy" product. That Tamco epoxy actually takes the place of both an epoxy and a 2k high build.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:47 pm
DarrelK wrote:NO COMPARISON.... Omni is 56.4% solids while Tamco is over 78% solids. The Omni is not a "build epoxy" product. That Tamco epoxy actually takes the place of both an epoxy and a 2k high build.


Correcting myself Omni MP282. The product sheet says 61.8% solids.
Tamco 770 Total Solids by Volume (RTS) 78% as sprayed

Tamco is twice as much in price.



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DarrelK wrote:Dennis, I know what you are talking about concerning shinkage....it's one of the #1 things that restoration and conservation people working in woods have to contend with....
I'm telling you....this stuff is a game changer. The hardened puck only does a minor shrink in the first 24 hours or so and is then stable.... I have a puck from a year ago and it has not changed. Another thing with this stuff is the great sanding quality. It levels and dusts up nicely, definitely self guide coating as well. Makes the old polyester high builds look like crap.... I don't use any of the old regular or high build primers at all anymore, just this stuff. This again was a direct quote from Bob which is in the product description on their web site.... "If you want a high build, quick sanding, non shrinking epoxy. Consider the 770 series epoxy."


Forgive me if this is a "dumb" question, i'm still getting my bearings on this stuff....
- Would the HP770 be a "one size fits all" for use as both an initial direct-to metal epoxy primer, and also as a high-build primer to seal up body filler and function as a sealer before base coat?



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:24 pm
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DarrelK wrote:Dennis, I know what you are talking about concerning shinkage....it's one of the #1 things that restoration and conservation people working in woods have to contend with....
I'm telling you....this stuff is a game changer. The hardened puck only does a minor shrink in the first 24 hours or so and is then stable.... I have a puck from a year ago and it has not changed. Another thing with this stuff is the great sanding quality. It levels and dusts up nicely, definitely self guide coating as well. Makes the old polyester high builds look like crap.... I don't use any of the old regular or high build primers at all anymore, just this stuff. This again was a direct quote from Bob which is in the product description on their web site.... "If you want a high build, quick sanding, non shrinking epoxy. Consider the 770 series epoxy."


Forgive me if this is a "dumb" question, i'm still getting my bearings on this stuff....
- Would the HP770 be a "one size fits all" for use as both an initial direct-to metal epoxy primer, and also as a high-build primer to seal up body filler and function as a sealer before base coat?


No question is a dumb question. Don't listen to me about paint though... I'm new to auto paint and have no clue. I'm learning as I go and I don't want to mess up my first auto paint job on a rebuild. I had to sand down a couple runs from my MP170 coat. I don't know if I'll go with Tamco HP770 or Evercoat Featherfill G2 and MP170 as my final before base. The Tamco HP770 seems to be a single application meaning it can replace what I may be going for (Evercoat Featherfill G2 and MP170) and the price may be reasonable with the Tamco HP770 application. I don't know how that would turn out but there are experienced painters on this forum with those answers.

I do know that you want a good epoxy down on metal before body filler, body filler is porous and moisture will eventually lift anything above it.

With my setup
DTM omni mp170 2k epoxy, 3 coats
evercoat featherfill g2 (filler)
omni mp170 2k epoxy, 3 coats
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clear

Tamco HP770 Description and TDS

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That Tamco product replaces all of the usual stuff from bare metal primer and up. You could 'not pay me enough money to go back to Slick Sand, Feather Fil, etc. The epoxy yields a stable, non shrinking surface that has NO recoat windows. ALL of those polyester primers will shrink and usually months after the shoot. I did all of my priming, sealing, high build with just that one Tamco epoxy product a year ago and there is NO evidence of movement or shrinking. I literally grew up with PPG series primers, paints, etc. back in the 1980s. Guys were crabbing so much about the increase costs of paints so much that PPG offered the Omni and later Shopline series. Omni basecoats is one of the poorest quality bases I have ever used.... The last time I shot an Omni straight white basecoat it took me 6 coats to get coverage.... yes, 6. To support that the following sign hangs over the desk of my PPG paint jobber.... "Absolutely no color matches or returns on Omni."
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:01 pm
How far does a quart go? let's say a full-size truck or car.

this is 3 full coats and a 4th light coat of mp170 2k epoxy primer quart the whole can. both outer rockers and inner rockers, front of wheel well, cab corners, and floor of crew cab. could have done more than 3, but I was fooling around and my first time using an hvlp or any paint job at this level.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:12 am
Well, that's a tough question to answer as it depends on just how you are reducing and more importantly what tip size you are using. I mean, I can push it through a 1.5 but Tamco recommends a 2.0 to 2.5. And, this is a true 1 to 1 mix of resin and hardener so you are buying 2 quarts plus the added reducer. When I build our Smyth kit trucks I just buy a 2 gallon kit which does everything in the way of sealing and high build and I still have a couple of quarts left....
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DarrelK wrote:That Tamco product replaces all of the usual stuff from bare metal primer and up. You could 'not pay me enough money to go back to Slick Sand, Feather Fil, etc. The epoxy yields a stable, non shrinking surface that has NO recoat windows. ALL of those polyester primers will shrink and usually months after the shoot. I did all of my priming, sealing, high build with just that one Tamco epoxy product a year ago and there is NO evidence of movement or shrinking. I literally grew up with PPG series primers, paints, etc. back in the 1980s. Guys were crabbing so much about the increase costs of paints so much that PPG offered the Omni and later Shopline series. Omni basecoats is one of the poorest quality bases I have ever used.... The last time I shot an Omni straight white basecoat it took me 6 coats to get coverage.... yes, 6. To support that the following sign hangs over the desk of my PPG paint jobber.... "Absolutely no color matches or returns on Omni."


I painted a 63 Ford Fairlane Oxford white with Omni base and it covered really well. I did three coats for safety, but felt I could have got away with 2.
I've sprayed several brands, but... 6 coats?



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:28 am
I painted a 63 Ford Fairlane Oxford white with Omni base and it covered really well. I did three coats for safety, but felt I could have got away with 2.
I've sprayed several brands, but... 6 coats?[/quote]
Absolutely! I never use Omni, either. Many colors, you do need to put on more coats of it for coverage. White, is a very opaque color, metallics and pearls, reds, greens, are more translucent. So yeah, cheaper paint, but you need more of it.



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DarrelK wrote:So you are reading that correctly. In fact, I talked directly with Bob (Tammy's father) about it.... "You can coat over this tomorrow, next week, or next year." That is a direct quote from him and the reason we use it to build our kit cars and trucks. It allows us to get the assembly and body work done on our builds and then get them in this epoxy for driving shakeouts. On my Grandson's Jeep Smyth Ute conversion he drove it for about two weeks before we did the rest of the finish work. We even had kind of a "scare" with it on his truck when he had to park it in a remote area of his parking lot. We had a hard rain and this green dye came down out of the trees. I mean it was BAD! Just took some Dawn and hot water, cleaned right up and finished every thing up the next week. Just a tip....if you are using it as a true "high build" have at least a 1.8 tip and a 2.2 would be better..... and of course do remember to sand it right before moving on to base or whatever.... Oh, and here's a pic. of a hood I'll being doing for my truck. That epoxy will be going right over the E coat....
so as a beginner i would read this as that i can shoot my top coat on at any time BUT it says nothing about sanding before? there should be a window where the material is sensitive and can be recoated no sanding required. past that time sure it can be recoated next year BUT it will need to be sanded. as i read it it, it requires no sanding anytime. i just hate to see some less informed person go the wrong direction. MAYBE i'm the less informed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :whoops:
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