Awesome! Thanks very much. I was thinking of trying similar tests today. I’m going to sand the surface of an old board with 100 grit to expose weave. Then I’ll “smear” some Kwick Kick with 10% xylene on the surface and see how it covers. I’ll try a foam brush and maybe also a staining pad. Will see how she goes.
The foam brushes will tear so have a second or third brush ready for action. Cut up portions of foam rollers work pretty good, they will tear also. Backing up the foam brush with a squeegie is nice and straight but gets messy.
I messed up a ceiling once with Kilz primer (alcohol based) and a foam brush. Long story short the paint ate the brush and the brush tinted the paint from white to gray.
I seem to remember that there are some guys (Dwight?) using those yellow painting pads for epoxy work.
Yesterday I used the 10% thinned RR CE2000 for a thin glossing on a 9’ side. It went on very similar to the thinner RR 2070 that i’ve used before and was trying to duplicate. Very little resin gets used, when more of it is smeared around the foam brush moves very easily, if not quite enouph resin is being smeared around the foam brush snags with too much friction. This job fell in between those two resin amounts, it went on fine and turned out good. It set up fine, was thin enouph for wanting a thin coat, not too thin. The whole side was a sand thru from the prep and it all got saturated or covered as you’d expect. The foam brush didn’t melt. It has very light brush strokes everywhere that will need to be knocked down before painting, I don’t think it will need another thin coat to work with. So I’m real happy with using 10% thinned resin for thin glossing.