Originally Posted by
Pablo332
The latest AH paint finishes are water based, good for the environment. Unfortunately they behave like a plastic. In the old days corrosion could reasonably easily be spotted as the paint fell off. Now it’s cocooned in a surface finish that expands to accommodate any change in original profile. Not good for the engineering people, they would literally have to coin tap the surface finish.
Totally not true. Water based paint are more brittle and more easier to fall of when attaching surface varied.