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Baz
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Yes, the stuff on this page:Bruce_B said:
Outdoor Metal and 100% mineral spirits. About a 70/30 or 60/40 mix.
I've done 1 coat, and it looks suprizingly good, better than the original paintwork that has no gloss at all.
The wife came home and saw me with roller in hand.....
"What are you doing?"
"Painting me car."
"You can't paint it like that!"
"Yeah I can, I read it on the internet!"
Anyhow, it's getting cold and I don't want my hands to be shaking. I'll put coat #2 on tomorrow morning, and then run a wetsand in the afternoon.
I'm only doing 1 fender for right now, until I can see some progress one way or another.
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This is getting very interesting. I want to see how it works out. I painted the engine bay, underneath, etc with rustoleum. I did not use a roller as I was not too concerned about it. It has some runs,etc, but its good paint and easy to come by. I know sooner or later I will be back inside the engine and the bay will get some scratches, easy touchup with rustoleum. I must also say that any rust I wire wheeled down and applied por-15 and then top coated with rustolem. That por-15 is the hardest stuff to sand down that I have ever seen. I coated some rusty spots on the inside of a fender and it ran to the outside in a spot and I ended up using the 4" grinder to get it off.
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OK, now I'm thinking back many years. When I was a kid my dad worked for a place that put tanks on fuel trucks and painted them. They would give away extra paint that was leftover from a job because they always started with new paint on a job like that. Anyways my dad had all kinds of partial gallons of paint and when we painted my first car (huge old 65 Dodge Polara) we mixed some red, orange and brown together to have enough to paint the car. The car came out well (sprayed). Anyway, I remember using some green paint like this straight out of a can on a lawnmower with a brush and it came out really well, it was one thick coat and levelled out before it dried. I have not thought about that in years. I bet it does not have to be rustoleum, but could be regular car paint that was not thinned and was allowed to dry slowly.
Atrus
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Kim, that's what I am wondering. I don't know when I'll get to it, but I sprayed my car a few years back, and I have a little paint left over. I have a spare door. I'll try and sand it down, and roll some standard auto paint on it. Like I said, not sure when it'll happen, I have too much now between work, MBA, and other misc projects /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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Jim_Gruber said:
Certainly the same company
https://www.rustoleum.com/brand.asp?frm_brand_id=41&SBL=5
I believe Tremclad is the Canadian Product Line
bugimike
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I just LOVE how all these paint Co.s include the swatch for clear, the one for Tremclad above has THREE!! ...Yeah guys, that looks really just like what I need!!! hehehe /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazyeyes.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazyeyes.gif
Baz
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I'll agree with the no runs, no drips, but the errors? Although due to the human in charge, I did make a couple of errors. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gifbugimike said:
ATM I've just found out that it costs $$'s to re-title my car for a different colour....I'm not sure I like the colour I selected because it looks like glossy primer, so I will be trying their 'Gloss Royal Blue' which would require less coats and should shine up easier.
So....
The colour on the tin or website, may not be that close to what you want.
There are <u>NO</u> drips, runs or orange peel, even before wetsanding.
Check State laws regarding vehichle colour changes.
Bear in mind I'm not finished, but preliminary results do tend to lean toward the 'myth confirmed' category. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/driving.gif
Baz
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Let me re-phrase that....drooartz said:
The registration document has to be changed, forms filled out with DMV etc (gov't + forms = $), just so their computers know what car the police are talking about.
I have to go back to the Hardware Store AGAIN but sometime during the day today, I should have some pictures of something by afternoon. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif
