@Davedacarpainter, so what paint did you use, Dave? Acrylic enamel? How did you reduce it and what pressure did you shoot it at? You said at a high pressure, but I just bought my first HVLP gun. I have a Binks #7 I painted a couple cars with, but my wife swore she'd skin me if a painted another car in the garage. She didn't mention seats.
O'Reileys actually had the same adhesion promoter on the shelf. I'm repainting my interior pieces, trying to get things matched up. How much did the paint stink when it was baked? I have a feeling baking my seat covers in the family oven seat covers will be added to the list
Thanks for your expertise (and patience)
Jim
I used a polyester urethane. Common automotive paint.
I didn't over reduce the paint in attempt to make it thinnner. The key of it is that of the molecule size, not making the sprayable mixture thinner. Though I understand the basis of your thought here. So it was reduced approximately 1:1 with reducer, plus ten percent hardener (the same hardener I use in clear coats).
A Binks 7?!! Jeez, I probably shot a couple thousand cars with a good old Binks 7. You're running me down memory lane, or at least what remains of memory lane for a painter that may have experimented with various recreational chemicals at some point during their career.:zombie:
I've shot in garages with a single incandescent light bulb over the roof of cars. We would stuff wet towels in the jambs of the doors going into the house. Still it would "reek" of paint, or at least that's what the people who weren't desensitized to the smell of paint would tell me.
The main smell of the paint will fade fairly rapidly. The primary scent is from the reducer used to make the paint sprayable. If you don't have the means available to bake the covers (the oven would make me a little paranoid about the next lasagna coming out of there). Just let the cover set for a week, it'll be fine.
If it matters, my seats have no noticeable scent to them now.
Frankly, concerning your wife, unless something is expressly prohibited, it's allowed. Something I learned in the Army a long time ago. You simply have to explain to her that you are the man of the house and you made a decision and she shouldn't question your male wisdom.
BTW, start a new thread here describing the event that you chose to use this little nugget of knowledge.