clarification, 100%axrylic latex i refered to as 100% acrylic.....vinyl latex i refer to as latex...you are
not thinning based temps and conditions, you are thinning so you could push it through a cup gun and i dont advise it with that equipment unless the temps and conditions warrant it
im going off your picture and the adjacent brick mortar joint as comparison...you were never specific...all other info is FYI and should be taken as such
yes i did, the picture indicates caulking wasnt fully dry, nothing more or less...... i used the 4 to 8 as a manu example...meaning
printed drying times by manus which you were relying on
MEANS NOTHING....its all about many factors, atmospheric conditions substraight conditions, blah blah blah...must i repeat myself?, you can read and understand english cant you?
i have never experience problems with elastomeric caulk, and that comes with no reading, but decades of experience....i agree that different caulking product perform better than others in certain situations for example .elastomeric caulk used on stucco cracks finished with flat paint do not flash as much as others......find something and stick with it, ?...if you say so..but it sounds like a blow off in advice and limiting...methods in working and experience with products change frequently in the painting field .... the constant formula changes and voc regulations may keep some on their toes, keeping the fundamentals with product make up, i.e. resins, driers, pigment, etc. in mind....... make it a breeze, painting is not brain surgery.
i apologize if i tend to give out TMI, thats just how i roll.....i coulda just said,
welcome....hmmm, your pic looks like you painted the caulk too soon, just bust out that cup gun, keep adding water to the product so it will work with the equipment your using
regardless of product performance by doing so and paint that caulk again...problem solved....
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Craft paints are sometimes called acrylics.
You're really supposed to thin by temperature, etc. at the time of the spraying but the viscosity time listed for latex is a 10 second spread. I haven't heard of anyone yet that fussy. Your use of the term "cup gun" means nothing as that can be anything that uses paint from a mounted cup. Sounds like you don't spray, dislike spraying, etc.
Ha! Manus times? I had to look that up as I wondered what you were talking about. Never heard of them. Yes, I can understand english and I'm still asking how long do
you allow for drying time? Longer, tells me nothing at all. "Decades of experience", does this mean that you paint for a living? If so, do you caulk on one job, leave, come back in "x" amount of time to proceed? If you can't caulk and paint over it on the same day, you can't be making any money!
What was left of a gallon was thinned making around a quart. Supposedly, one shouldn't thin latex past 25%. Too thin, you may get runs, too thick and you can get orange peel. I had neither.
I could have easily just brush the paint but I wanted to get some practice using this HVLP turbine system. It took me much longer to mask off the job than to spray it plus cleaning the gun. I just want to solve the caulk/paint issue before a winter indoor project I have planned.