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Re: Nail Polish

>Has anyone tried to substitute fingernail polish for touchup paint? It
>seems to me there about five billion shades of red and the stuff is tough
>and glossy. Not too mention its always readily available since every
>touchup paint I've bought has always ended up dried up. We should make a
>list of really good matches and post them. I for one would like to get a
>good match for my Henna red M3. Is this a stupid idea?

I used nail polish to touchup the red lettering on my mountain bike and 
within six months it had faded to a pinkish shade.  The bike was only in the 
sun maybe three hours a day.  So nail polish doesn't have the UV protection 
needed for outdoor use.

However, when I was putting the street numbers on my mailbox I didn't have 
any crazy glue so I dabbed nailpolish on the corners of the numbers and on 
the box, let it set a minute, then pressed the number to the box.  I've 
moved since, but it lasted the year and a half I was there.

I'm not offering this as a solution for glue problems just to show that if 
you touchup your car with nail polish, when it fades, good luck getting it 
off.


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