Evening star., 1940-05-04
Enamel That Dries
In Hour Available
In 20Co|ors
New Motorized Sproy
Guns Save Lot Of Time
In Painting Walls
BY DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON.

Speed is the keynote of American
life, or so we have been told so often
that we all believe it. It certainly
Is the keynote of domestic tasks, any
way. In everything from house
cleaning and cooking to repair work
and refurbishing. We want to keep
our homes in the best possible con-
dition, but life being what it is, we
want to do this rapidly-with no
waste motion and certainly with a
minimum expenditure of the pre-
ctous commodity, time.
So when We want to paint some-
thing around the house we want a
paint that will dry rapidly, and still
have handsome durable finish. We
have just heard about an enamel
that dries to touch in one hour.
That doesn't mean it is completely
dry, but it is not sticky when you
pass an exploratory finger over it,
and 1t won't brush off on your
clothes. Used on floors, it is safe
to walk over the fresh paint in four
to five hours.
This paint may be used inside or
outside; on floors, woodwork and
furniture. 1t comes in 20 lovely
colors as well as in a clear finishing
coat that puts varnish- like coat
Ing on floors or woodwork. It also
comes in porcelain white and cream,
but in these two colors, because of
different composition. it takes
three or four hours to dry to touch,
instead of one hour.
The paint is easily applied with
brush or spray, and in most cases
will do the finishing job with only
one coat. When dry it is moisture
and alcohol resistant, and we saw
demonstration of its resistance to
heat A piece of untreated metal
painted with one coat of this new
enamel was exposed to the direct
flame OF match for one minute.
When the surface had cooled a
smoke stain was visible A moistened
cloth wiped the stain off. There
was no sign of where the flame had
been applied.
The new enamel is made with a
recently formulated vehicle of the
synthetic resin type that has become
so popular in the varnish and enamel
industry. 1t took six years to de-
velop this particular vehicle, we are
told, and the result is the acme of
speed in drying, plus a hard, flint
like surface.
The enamel is particularly good,
IN color, for finishing bathrooms,
kitchens and furniture. It is excel
lent. in its clear amber -eolored form.
for hardwood floors. We are trying
some OF the porcelain white to touch
up worn refrigerator.
1t costs $1.80 quart or 81 q pint,
and you can buy it in as small a
quantity as one-quarter pint for 40
cents. Colors include three reds. two
blues, three green's, two grays. three
browns, three creams, yellow, orange,
maroon and aluminium.
Paint Spray Gun Handy.
While we are on the subject OF
painting-and who isn't in this
spring house painting weather.
you might like to know about some
new motorized spray guns which
take even more time out of paint
ing. Spray guns make it possible
to paint wall in about one-third
the time it would take by brush
bucket-stroke methods.
The spray guns we have in mind
are portable, easy to handle, mex
pensive units in strong metal cases.
All the working parts are covered,
so there is no danger of injury to
the non-professional painter vho