By Pat Dry
Technical Service Director of Tamco Paint/Tamco Finishes
The one most important product anyone should have available in their shops at all times is Tamco's TOP DAWG adhesion promoter! HP-2010 Top Dawg is a multi-use adhesion promoter that is water-clear in color with no pink hue like many other on the market. In the normal refinish industry this product can be used on raw plastics such as bumpers before applying primers or top coats. Another use is in door jambs. Once properly cleaned our adhesion promoter can be sprayed and topcoated in jambs without sanding or used on any other hard to reach ares without the risk of delamination. In the custom side of painting HP-2010 has a wide variety of uses. It can be applied directly to metal with no need for sanding. Polished aluminum looks amazing but not long after it will begin to lose its luster. Our adhesion promoter can be applied directly on top of polished aluminum and then clearcoated for a lifelong durable shine. Since it dries clear it will not add any discoloration. Custom painters often find that they have exceeded the recoat window for the next coat of paint. All you have to do is apply HP-2010 and can start back on your work after a short flash time without having to sand and ruin what you've already done. Tamco HP-2010 is a must have for the collision, restoration or custom paint world.
Here is a list of all of the advantages of this unique product that you will not find anywhere else:
- Ready to Spray- NO REDUCTION
- Spray very thin dust coats! It should be sprayed so thin that it should flash off in seconds! NO WET COATS!!!! Wet coats = failure of this product
- It's Direct to all cleaned plastics yes, like automotive bumpers, but it is also direct to metals!
- Great for cut-thru's to prevent lifting. Just dust a little Top Dawg over the cut-thru, and you can resume painting without fear of lifting.
- Stackable: Multiple thin coats will build a film that can bridge a re-coat lift issue. Just 2-3 dust coats is all that is needed! Allow it to sit 20 minutes. It will powder when dry sanded with 600.
- Forever pot life! No worry about it getting hard if you keep in a tightly sealed container…. Unsealed, the solvent will evaporate and it will thicken.
- Great for added adhesion when using panel bond or two part plastic repair products.
HP-TOP DAWG is really the TOP DOG of adhesion promotors!