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   user-196900 | May 21, 2007 01:36am | #1

   Try your local bathtub refinisher

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   BarryE | May 21, 2007 03:34am | #2

   My first choice, for long term, would be not to paint the cabinet or recover it with another laminate.

   If that doesn't work The best plan of action would be to give it a good cleaning, sand it to give it some tooth, use a good bonding primer like XIM, and topcoat it with a good quality waterborne like SW's ProClassic or BM's Impervo

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   Barry E-Remodeler

    

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   eleft | May 21, 2007 03:59am | #3

   My '69 Bertram had faded laminate bulk heads, I cleaned with acetone scuffed with a scotch medium pad and painted with urethane paint 2 years ago and it still holding up.

    

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   bigbossman | May 21, 2007 04:05am | #4

   Do you guys think that a quart of paint of paint would cover a 30x19 cabinet base if using XIM bonding primer and some SW?

    

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   calvin | May 21, 2007 04:43am | #5

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   DonCanDo | May 21, 2007 05:08am | #6

   Before you paint the vanity, I suggest you try whatever technique you've chosen on a piece of scrap.  I'm suggesting this because I've experimented with painting laminates and while I have had some success (scuffing and Zinsser BIN worked the best), I do not have enough confidence in it that I would actually paint a laminate surface for a customer.  Well, actually I might... but only of it were a surface that were never touched by anything/anybody.

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   MarkH | May 21, 2007 05:42am | #7

   You can use a automotive type epoxy primer over sanded and degreased laminate.  It's nasty to work with, expensive, and will ruin your gun if not properly cleaned immediately after use, but it's hard and sticks good.