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    Exterior Latex/Acrylic House Paints

    I recommend you get the adhesive grip tape made for wet surfaces from Home Depot or Lowe's, etc. It will hold up much better than what you can get dissolved in the paint. You can just get the black stuff and then paint over it with a brush that is lightly saturated with paint. That's the kind of...
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    Exterior Latex/Acrylic House Paints

    CARC is a paint technology. A lot of us are using '383 green', but it is technically 34094. Scan through this and you will see some useful color coding info and reflectivity, etc. for fabrics standards. For posterity: Federal Standard 595B Numbering System Five Digit Number (ex: 595B 30494)...
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    Exterior Latex/Acrylic House Paints

    Great comments from everyone and I agree with all of you. Anyone care to comment where Gillespie paint falls compared to Behr vs. CARC? BTW, sharp looking trucks. :-)
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    Exterior Latex/Acrylic House Paints

    Well, I am sure I didn't wait long enough for the full performance of the Behr stuff. No doubt on that. I now recall several such stories about it's performance after a period of time. I wonder how the oblique reflectivity is after a month. Have you had military CARC to compare against? I...
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    Exterior Latex/Acrylic House Paints

    Yeah, funny thing is, the MSDS on Gillespie shows their CARC paint has talc in it.
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    Exterior Latex/Acrylic House Paints

    I thought I would add my own input for the Behr Acrylic Latex paint. I know my post count is single digit on here, but I own and operate a tier 1 painting facility for auto. I have been in paint since I was 14 and can colour match better than paint factories. Likewise, I have been doing...
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