Intermix Color Blend Program

The All-Purpose, Long Lasting Multi-Use Coating

Z Tone 30 Series is the perfect OEM and refinish product because of its extreme durability, great looks, camouflaging ability, ease of application, and substrate versatility. Z Tone 30 Series is ideally suited for applications on:

• Aluminum and fiberglass boat interiors
• Truck beds and boxes
• Interior compartments on fire trucks, ambulances, utility trucks, safety vehicles and armored cars
• Industrial equipment
• Aircraft or bus interiors and compartments
• Light fixtures
• Safes
• Furniture and shelving

With Z Tone’s substrate versatility, your imagination is the product’s only limitation. This attractive, cost effective, and durable coating provides a fabulous look on a variety of surfaces; including ferrous metals, aluminum, plastics, fiberglass, wood, ceramic, and glass.¹

Z Tone’s durable finish requires no special maintenance and can be washed and waxed just like paint. Z Tone resists many common solvents. Most soiled areas are easily cleaned up. Over time, even a durable coating like Z Tone, with its unique properties, can eventually be damaged. However, its formulation allows for repairs and maintenance without extensive preparation. Simply clean up the damaged area with a wax and grease remover, re-prime, if necessary; then spray Z Tone and allow to dry. In most instances, it can be repaired in the field. When dry, Z Tone both blends in and adheres to itself with virtually no visible repair marks; another time and cost savings benefit.

Z Tone is a durable coating that resists wear from abrasion, scratching, and chipping in normal everyday use. Far tougher than regular paint, Z Tone offers you one of the most unique and dependable coatings available today! When used with Z Tone Z91 Basecoat PrimerSealer, Z Tone 30 Series can also help protect against rust and oxidation. With the abrasion and chip resistance of Z Tone, it will be difficult for rust to get started.

Long after regular paint has faded, scratched, or chipped off, a Z Tone finish still looks great. Z Tone’s multi-colored, textured surface provides a unique benefit by fooling the eye so that dents, dings, sanding scratches, weld marks, and other defects in the metal seem to disappear. Even the beaten-up beds of old work trucks can look terrific with Z Tone.

Z Tone’s unique proprietary formula sprays on like paint. Application is a simple 3-step process. First, after surface preparation, Z Tone’s appropriate basecoat primer-sealer is applied. Then, the Z Tone color background coat is sprayed on using high pressure to create a continuous film of protection. Finally, the color pattern coat is sprayed at a lower pressure to provide the full textured, multi-colored effect of Z Tone.

For enhanced water and chemical resistance, without sacrificing adhesion or impact resistance, our Quick Step Catalyst is designed for use with Z Tone 30 Series. The use of this catalyst is strongly suggested and is to be used if higher performance of Z Tone 30 Series multicolor is desired.

^{1 Generally, this product is compliant with local Air Quality Management Districts. Users are ultimately responsible for determining applicable regulatory agency for allowable usage conditions and disposal methods.}

Mix Z Tone exactly like this

When you first open a can of Z Tone, you will probably see a layer of clear liquid that has separated and risen to the top of the can. You may actually see the contents of the can moving on their own. Don’t be alarmed. Z Tone is a specialized chemical coating which is active, not an ordinary paint.

As you can see in the illustration, the color fleck capsules will have migrated to the center and bottom of the can. The color flecks always remain in suspension and do not adhere to each other. A gentle stirring will redistribute the color flecks throughout the background material. To keep from breaking the color flecks during stirring and to ensure proper fleck distribution, we ask that you follow this procedure exactly.

During storage & shipment, the color fleck capsules will settle at the bottom center on the can. A layer of clear liquid may form on the top.

Step One

Begin stirring gently at the top and around the sides of the can. Do not stir in the middle at this stage of preparation. This will start to mix the liquid while the motion of the background material begins to redistribute the color flecks.

Step Two

Stirring gently around the sides, gradually insert stir stick farther into the can and toward the middle. You may begin to GENTLY bump the mass of color flecks to help redistribution. Do not push the stir stick through the mass of color flecks.

Step One

Continue to insert the stirring stick further into the material as you stir gently with a more up and down motion. By the time you reach the bottom of the can with the stirring stick, the color flecks and the background material should be thoroughly mixed.

CAUTION: Do not use an agitator or shaker. You may “box” Z Tone by pouring it back and forth from one container to another after uniformly intermixing as described about. Do not thin, do not reduce, do not strain, and do not shake.

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