I'm gong to paint about an inch of my ice rod tip with water-based fluorescent orange paint. How long will it have to dry before I can place finish over it?
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I'm gong to paint about an inch of my ice rod tip with water-based fluorescent orange paint. How long will it have to dry before I can place finish over it?
It should be dry in an hour or so at the most unless you dip the end of the rod in the bucket.
Just thinking out loud here, but, you could mask off the rod except the tip you want painted and purchase the aerosol fluorescent spray paint and spray the tip and after it dries (which should be fairly quick) you could use an aerosol spray of clear lacquer.
Just a thought and nothing more...
If you haven't used that combination before, I would test it on something else first. Some solvent based finished will dissolve some water based paints. I've even had sovlvent based clear coats crackle and dissolve oil based paints on popper bodies. Now I always do a test run first to makes sure it will work.
Warren has a great idea.
The rule of thumb here is to use the same kind of paint over what is underneath. Enamel on enamel, urethane on urethane, lacquer on lacquer. You can put enamel over laquer after about 48 hours, but if you spray something with enamel, then try to clear coat with lacquer before a good 30 days has passed, you will get the wrinkles.
You can usually tell what is what if it isn't labeled on the rattle can by the dry time. Lacquers will have the shortest dry times, 15-30 minutes for dry to the touch. Enamels and urethanes will be in the 1 hour + for dry to the touch.
If in doubt, both Krylon and Rustoleum have great websites telling which of their paints are compatible with each other.
Another thought would be to use some of the new ProWrap thread from Mudhole. They have some neon colors. Just wrap a couple of inches of the tip with that.
LastChance,
Before you do this, think about it a bit.
Why 'flourescent orange'?
If the idea is to be able to see the tip easily from a distance, then you are on the right track.
Some ice fishermen rod builders I know wanted to try this to help them detect very light strikes while they were intently observing the rod tip. Didn't go so well. Somethig about such a bright color induced eye strain and made it harder to see subtle movement.
They found that a flat color that contrasted with the background was the best. Most settled on flat black or a flat light green.
Just somethingto consider.
Buddy