Handy Hints

Painting Cured Urethane with Smooth-On's Brush-On 40

Creating stunning painted finishes on platinum silicone rubbers like Dragon Skin has been possible using Psycho Paint for some time. It bonds extremely well to the silicone and will bend and flex with it without delaminating.

Smooth-On have received many requests to develop a urethane paint that would bond and flex when used with cured urethane castings made from ReoFlex or VytaFlex. For a long time they were unable to find the right formulation or the right product, at the right price.

But now Brush-On 40 has been tried and tested and works very well, bonding as if it were part of the original colouring. Using SO-Strong pigments it can be used to achieve a wide range of colour effects and can also be thinned with mineral spirits and spray applied to build up colour layers.

This hint appeared in our June 2009 Broadcast Newsletter.