Adding toner to Klass Kote clear

[KEITH McCRARY]

Has anyone had any success adding toners to Klass Kote epoxy clear? If so what was your technique?

Thank in advance.
Keith

[Mark wood]

Has anyone had any success adding toners to Klass Kote epoxy clear? If so what was your technique?

Thank in advance.
Keith

Why not use House of Kolor paint? For me that's a rhetorical question which the answer is that I don't want to have four or five different finish processes in my shop. I have use TransTint successfully in many different clear coats including urethanes.  That doesn't mean it will work in Klass Kote but I wouldn't be afraid of picking up a bottle of it and giving it a try. I use it in nitrate to get color on my planes which could be a method for you depending on what you are looking to achieve. On a silk, silkspan or polyspan you'll probably starting with nitrate and after the first coat add the tint. When it's dry, Klass Kote it for fuel proofness. I just did an experiment adding silver paste to my nitrate and coating the fuselage with that and left the wings clear. Then painted  the whole plane with tinted dope until I got a color I like. The fuselage color didn't work out like my vision but it look cool regardless.

[Brett Buck]

What are toners?  Fiberglast has pigments you can add to epoxy, I've used them.

   They are colors used to mix custom colors using a clear base.

    I don't know whether it mixes with klass-kote, my guess would be yes, but that's just a guess.

     Brett

[Mark wood]

   They are colors used to mix custom colors using a clear base.

    I don't know whether it mixes with klass-kote, my guess would be yes, but that's just a guess.

     Brett

Toners usually refer to what's used in printers. Pigments are what's mixed in paints. O Reilly's will supply pigment if asked, the ones with the automotive paint section that is. Those pigments should work as they are formulated for the spectrum of finish types they sell. It would be good to understand what OP is after I made the assumption / guess of simply dying the paint. Paint with opaque colors normally start with a white base and pigments are added. Adding color to clear is the realm of candy color treatments.

[Paul Wescott]

When mixing colors at the hardware store they don’t use “toner” (from laser printers or copiers) or “pigments” (artists / oil painters mix powdered pigments with transparent oils to make the paint they use).

Hardware stores call the color additives “tints”.  For a gallon of pastel yellow wall paint they add a small quantity of very vibrant yellow tint to a gallon of plain white base paint.

Maybe the confusion above is a simple matter of diction.