Quick drying stripes?

[STOUT]

How do you get 1-shot to dry quicker or should I use a different paint?

[Stripe57]

How fast do you want it to dry. 1Shot is not like urethanes. The best you can do is use a fast reducer made for low temps. One shot makes one and you can use most any brand acrylic enamel reducer also. Even after the reducer has evaporated, 1Shot still takes its sweet time to cure. You're in the south where it is humid. This slows it down even more. On the other hand, HOK striping urethanes dry very fast, maybe too fast in the humid south. But if fast is what you want, HOK is the answer.

[STREAMLINER]

Just did this Sportster yesterday....I used PPG Deltron, which i feel safer with on parts that might have gas spillage.....Dries to the touch in 5 minutes
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[Hipolito]

Wizard talks about using Japan Drier in one of his videos but i have never used it. Let us know how it works if you try it.

H.

[zopi]

Wizard talks about using Japan Drier in one of his videos but i have never used it. Let us know how it works if you try it.

H.

I have messed around with japan drier a little...on a cold day it helps,
but you have to mess with the paint more to keep an even consistency...I'd
much rather be in a wrm room with warm paint if possible...

as far as just speeding things up..only time I have been unhappy with
One shot was on a cold day..

[STOUT]

Thanks for the info. I striped a boat trailer the other day and it just seemed to take forever to dry. At a couple of dealerships I worked for we had stripe guys come by to do the stripes. Both prefered pinhead B because his stripes dried faster. I thought they both used one shot, but maybe not. I'll try a couple of things and see what happens.

[Stripe57]

Red is one of the worst for drying slow. Adding a couple of drops of catalyst to it helps quite a bit. George Perkins is down your way. He does a lot of car lot striping and he has been using HOK with good success.

[Mike Adams]

Hok is all I use and it does work great, but having said that it definately does dry fast. For someone that uses 1-shot you will find there to be a little transition to get used to how fast it dries, however if speed is a factor then it's the material to use.

[ThikSkin]

I use turpentine. It evaporates faster so it's dry to the touch faster. Also, from what I understand, it helps the paint grab very well.

[ThikSkin]

Streamliner, Nice clean work! I never tried using regular urethanes, will that fry the hairs? How well does the brush stay wet?

[STREAMLINER]

Streamliner, Nice clean work! I never tried using regular urethanes, will that fry the hairs? How well does the brush stay wet?

It'll take it's toll on the hairs after a period of time because you have to wash it out with lacquer thinners, because paint thinner, turps, etc. just isn't going to do it.....That's the cost of having the paint dry way faster than 1-Shot......I mainly started using it when i was striping at car dealerships, where you'd stripe a car and a half hour later they would be washing it, getting it ready for delivery....I also like to use it on bike stuff because of the risk of gasoline spillage on the tanks when re-fueling.....I feel that it is indestructable when cured, although 1-Shot, when mixed with catalyst is tough also......I thin my urethanes with lacquer retarder {not thinner} because it is slow drying {slower than the slowest reducer} and makes it easier to work....Even though it is slow drying, it's still way faster than 1-shot