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Originally Posted by David Fermani
I'd say it's as hard as it will get after a few days. Even if it isn't baked.It's the solvents that are outgassing for what some say a few months. I've gotten totally different opinions from dozens of painters. Out of the 1000's of vehicles I've seen, I've never seen a single one that had paint failure from trapped solvents from being sealed. Someone should call Mythbusters.
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I'm all for somebody doing controlled tests of this stuff with regard to LSPing, but I can state with zero ambiguity that I've experienced the months-long hardening process *with baked paint* first hand on numerous occasions.
Two examples that stick in my mind:
I've had RM brand b/c that was too soft for
Meg's #80 for over three weeks (incredible to see such hazing from the initial bite of that mild product!), but was too *hard* for the same #80 a couple of months later. This was the most dramatic example of the lengthy hardening that I've ever encountered.
On the S8 following its deer-incident repairs, I worked on it on-and-off over the course of four months and was able to carefully observe how the paint hardened. During that time, I had to gradually ramp up the aggressiveness of my products/process as stuff that was easy to correct with the PC after a few weeks required the rotary (and aggressive pads/products) a few months later. This was with Spiess Hecker paint. Its hardness in early spring was completely different from its hardness at the end of summer.