Thread: Pro Painters-What paint brands and why?

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I have had good luck with marhyde primer and price is right, but boy is it ever thick, but have used a lot of different 2ks and haven't noticed any immediate problems anyways. Depends on what I am looking for, if only need a little bit, I will get one that I really don't need to reduce, if going to be using a lot marhyde tintable. Plan on trying spi primers soon both urethane and epoxy. Years ago used ppg k200 and dp epoxy, now thier primer is too expensive and dp I've heard issues with since went lead free. I've used omni epoxy since dp went lead free.
For paint, I've always been a ppg guy, mostly dbc, when I was buying the paint, while most shops I worked in most used dupont chromabase. PPG was just a tad cheaper and to me it was a little more user friendly and better color match/coverage. If I am buying a value line, so far I like utech, but only used it once. Others I've used were ppg omni and rm limco, but so far utech beats them. I think they are all somewhat comparable in price between equal lines, it comes down to what you have available to you and what system you know the best.
I used spi clear on the last car and really liked it. I plan on using spi on the little side work I do, unless I need some clear like yesterday, or a real small quantity. Also like ppg 2021, but it costs more then then spi without really laying, looking better. or being better quality. I don't have a lot to compare to cause I haven't painted proffesionally for awhile and every place I painted has used dupont, except a used car place using low lines. The only opportunity I had to try other stuff was at home over the years, and way back in the 90's where they had mixing systems of a few different manufacturers. Started in 1990, were combination back then, did car complete from bodywork, to paint and buffing and finishing. got out of working in shops for awhile due to doing bodywork for bigger manufacturers being better pay/benefits, not having to stick money into a bunch of tools to use to work on stuff for them. Just got a job in a bodyshop again a year ago, but only do bodywork thier, big semis, rivits suck.