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Lacquer

Target Coatings EM6000

The figures Target Coatings (EMTECH) prints for Target Coatings EM6000 on its own data sheet, at the conditions it names. Where the sheet doesn't give a figure, this page says so rather than borrow one from another product.

Dry to the touch
25–30 min
Recoat
25–30 min
Ready for use
Not on the sheet we read
Full cure
Not on the sheet we read
Coverage
Not on the sheet we read
Thinning
Not on the sheet we read
VOC
41 g/L actual, 94 g/L regulatory
Conditions
Not on the sheet we read
Indoors or out
Interior
Food contact
The sheet we read makes no food-contact statement

One source: Target Coatings (EMTECH), the maker of that product

From the sheet: Water-based acrylic spray lacquer; dry in 25–30 minutes at 3 mils wet, and at least 25–30 minutes before the next coat; 24 % solids by weight.

Against its kind

Target Coatings EM6000 is one of the products in water-based lacquer; here is that kind across every maker we have read.

Water-based lacquer: recoat across makers

28 min

span 25–60 min

Two sources disagree: General Finishes 1, Target Coatings (EMTECH) 0.45833333333333337

More than twice apart (General Finishes 1 h, Target Coatings (EMTECH) 28 min), so this starts at the lower. Go by your own product's figure above.

Water-based lacquer: coverage across makers

Only one maker prints a coverage, so no class value: see its own figure above.

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Sources

  1. Target Coatings (EMTECH), EM6000 Production Lacquer technical data sheet R3 (dealer-hosted copy), read 2026-11-07.

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