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(2005)

Q. I making a biodiesel art automobile and I also wish to paint it with household paint. We have read that I'm able to utilize Rustoleum shows. Any one on the market previously try this.

Rob Hassett
bio betty - Ukiah California usa

A. Definitely you are able to paint a car or truck with any kind paint you would like. Exactly what it'll look like, and how long it will probably endure - varies according to that which you choose.

Jeffrey Holmes, CEF
Spartanburg,
South Carolina

A. The Partridge Family did.

Sheldon Taylor
offer string electronics
Wake Woodland, Vermont

Sheldon's response cracked me up. Done well!

Daryl Spindler
decorative chrome plating - Nashville, Tennessee

Sheldon you have dated your self. Partridge Family certainly!
Great Job!

Trent Kaufman
electroplater
Galva, Illinois

I saw that coach recently, it nevertheless looks great! They need to've made use of good pretreatment. Do not ask easily used to sing "I think I love you" and imagine to be Keith because i will not respond to.

Sheldon Taylor
supply chain electronics
Wake Woodland, Vermont

A. You can easily paint a motor vehicle with everything, including little finger shows.

Issue is exactly what types of finish do you want and just how very long do you want it to endure?

I've done whole vehicles in Rustoleum. Generally, it's very hard to get a glossy finish. Eliminate various types of water based or exudate shows (unless the car doesn't have steel panels). Water based shows will permit an even of deterioration to develop.

We've had some limited success with a powder coating primer and water based paints over the top, but it has-been for tiny places and with reduced gloss/reflectivity.

However the real question is exactly how great a finish are you wanting.

Larry Sickler
- Roscoe, Illinois, United States Of America

A. We painted the Redneck Limo, a 26 base Winnebago Chieftain engine home now art automobile, with Rustoleum Paint. I have to touch it up every month or two because the yellow and red fades. When I requested Rustoleum for some variety of financial assist in an art form grant since they were consistently getting many promotion through art car, they refused me personally flat-out. Then, after declining to greatly help me at all, they called me personally as well as requested me personally basically would allow all of them to utilize the art vehicle in their paper. I refused them out level.

There is certainly a form of sign paint One Shot Sign Paint [linked by editor to product info at Amazon]that many art car artists or cartists use. It generally does not fade like Rustoleum. It's better paint, costs much more, but will save you amount of time in repainting. In addition, usually the one Shot Sign Paint has much richer color.

Fay Lionti
- Jacksonville, Florida, United States Of America

A. Simply painted two automobiles with Royal Blue Rustoleum. The first had been the full sized van for a quadra-plegic buddy. The Dodge van ended up being covered with flaking paint and surface corrosion. Sanding, priming with Rustoleum red primer, sanding with #400 wet after that investing in 15 cans of paint (squirt plus one of these trigger manages) got it carried out in not as much as 2 days including masking.

Vehicle # 2: my sons' task vehicle: a VW Scirocco. This thing sat under a tree for some time together with tree above it dripped a really strong paint remover. After sanding with a finishing sander, it got Rusty Metal Primed, damp sanded both heavy coats of color. Sanded by using #400 after that #600 to a much dull finish.
Topped it off with similar model of superior applying several slim coats on a rather hot time. Brilliant thus far!
All cost about 25 dollars. We'll see if it fades.

(could easily get a fresh color for free in that way when we park it yet another method day-after-day!)

George Popa
- Yreka, California

Q. I am also looking into painting an automobile with home paint. What sort of preparation do i must do in order to the automobile to get the paint to stay. It's a metal bodied Ford taurus and I am going to color it with chalk board paint. Must I sand the automobile to really make the paint stick simpler?

Neil Baxter
- Marietta, Georgia, American (2007)

A. Well We haven't done it really at this time but I anticipate it within the next thirty days, from every little thing I look over you don't need to make use of a primer when utilizing rustoleum. make use of the industrial type, enamel based, and thin to a little above water consistency utilizing mineral spirits [linked by editor to device info at Amazon]. use high grade foam roller and in the tight spaces, utilize a foam brush. the procedure is quick: paint, let dried out, decorate, let dried out, sand with about 80 or 120 grit...repeat the method about three times but sand with progressively greater grit sandpaper as well as on the past time buff it out sincere good with a POLISHING element, after that wax. guarantee on the sanding you employ damp sandpaper, and ENSURE THAT IS STAYS WET. really your money can buy, it wouldnt hurt to use it. the worst that will take place is it does not look how you wish and you must sand it well and do something in a different way.

Dakota Murdock
- oklahoma town, oklahoma, united statesHey everyone else, this is an incredible website. We operate a youth group when you look at the Cayman Islands and I believe children want a vehicle painted in chalkboard paint. We live in a really hot environment and a few months off they year its raining. clearly never ever cold.. would chalk board paint hold-up within weather condition. ( painitng once a year is no problem) in that case kindly advise myself just what paint to make use of and exactly what preparation will become necessary it really is a metal vehicle with fiberglass pieces. many thanks such everyone else!Michael Bell
- western Bay, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands i am undergoing painting a 70s muscle vehicle with Rustoleum. It is both that or allow it become rust. I do not have the dollars for a-frame off renovation right now but I'm preserving because of it. Into the mean-time i'd like it to look halfway good and so I could possibly get classic auto insurance. We started with rusty steel primer, out of the might with a brush and today i am regretting it when I have switched to a sprayer and those brush shots are murder to sand on. I will include that I have a shop, an instrument repair shop, thus I have squirt equipment and a huge 'ol compressor. I also have a neighbor who's a professional automobile human body guy and so I was getting an environment of no-cost advice. Basically of this other opinions tend to be i'm all over this, damp sanding with progressively finer grits and all sorts of that but i may include one technique; when you use the colour coat temperature it. Obtain it since hot as you possibly can sit whenever sticking your pinky little finger on it. Be careful however, the stuff is flammable and I will not be held accountable if you immolate your self. Put it on thick, It will probably seem like crap taking place nonetheless it will "lay down" and appear great. For those who have squirt gear and try this do not slim it, put it to use straight.Carl LaFong
- Howell, brand new JerseyI recently painted a motor vehicle with Sherwin Williams latex household paint. It absolutely was a more durable paint versus low priced material. Used a genuine residence artist which kind of a reverse vacuum to spray it with (found it at Harbor Freight Tools for $120). First-time around I didn't thin the paint and only sprayed the bonnet. No go, way to think and bumpy. Re-sanded etc. 2nd time around I watered it right down to nearly the persistence of water although not rather. Worked amazing. Sprayed the whole automobile therefore ended up awesome. I think We just needed to do two coats. Trial and error my buddies. Just make sure you test an inferior area first-in case you have to sand it all down. Good-luck.mike will
- kansas city, Missouri usaI have a van that had a will dropped onto it and has now a tiny reduction. We noticed starting at the top is a small rust spot. Am I able to just use some spray of Rustoleum about it to help keep it from rusting further?Toni Morris
- Panama City, Florida
Hi, Toni.

Indeed you can easily, Toni, but a dab of naval jelly initially could be much better.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
finishing.com
Pine Seashore, Nj-new Jersey

Naturally you are able to. Listed here is videos of me personally doing it also it ended up fantastic.

S Patton
- Sarasota, Florida USA

You missed the doorway jambs, and I suppose underside for the bonnet and trunk lid. Drive it 10K miles, and leave it out inside weather condition for a-year, and I believe you'll find you have decreased it is market value by 50per cent.

Good car paint is a few hundred dollars per gallon. Good stuff, that will resist many years of outside visibility is, primer and clearcoat included, $1000 or even more.

Jeffrey Holmes, CEF
Spartanburg,
Sc