Rustoleum doesn't need hardner. It takes a while to dry enough to recoat, though, maybe 12-24 hours. -JJ
I painted my cutlass with a gallon of walmart paint. Not a show shine finnish but looks good either way. Especially since it was my first paint job and sprayed at 1:00am outside using lamps from the house. I was in a rush to paint it. With primer, paint and sandpaper I probaly have about 80 bucks in the paint job and was done 2 years ago.
I did both of these with paint from tractor supply store. Low gloss black on the T-bucket, A.C. orange on the jeep. I'm sure it's not the best quality paint in the world, but you can't beat the price. I have less than $50 in material in both of these paint jobs.
When I restored a 1941 John Deere B a couple of summers ago I used John Deere paint from the dealership and then added 25% (I think) of the appropriate hardener...or catalyst....I cant remember exactly what at the moment. Then you can use a fine (I used gray) scotch pad to "break the gloss" on the paint, and then you are able to clear like normal. I know the color selection is basic, but they do offer a white, a few different blacks, yellow, antique green, and ag green. I plan on using the white on my '66 Rambler Classic later this summer. The stuff is about $70 a gallon, so it is more spendy compared to generic "tractor paint", but it is still not bad at all. Of course for the trouble you could just get some Omni or something else cheap. I hope this helps.
I want to do a "mop n glow" job on my daily driver '79 Dodge D-100 and planned to use one part John Deere green and one part white and make it a satin look, should come out a nice mild green (maybe a seafoam green)! Any advise or criticism?
Istead of spending 70 bucks on tractor paint Omni white is like 40 bucks. Base coat clear coat is the way to go.
You have to be creative to get the colors you want. For my off-white cream look I mixed 3 qts white with 1 qt IH white. Than Royal blue 50/50 with white for my blue. I havn't painted yet, but the colors turned out nice on my test pieces and had a good shine. Another cheap option is something like this paint, but again limited color choices http://www.paintforcars.com/
Hey, Alkyd enamel IS synthetic enamel! Prior to 1958 all automotive paint, that wasn't lacquer based, was synthetic enamel. By the late fifties, when paint technologies changed, acrylic resins were formulated into enamels and replaced the alkyd resins in enamel. Alkyd enamel is still in use, though not in production automotive finishes. An alkyd finish is a good ''trial run" paint product for someone who has little if any automotive refinishing experience, or beginner metal/body repair experience. A$250.00-$300.00 a gallon urethane finish over a less than ''black lacquer perfect" repair is like a guy with a bad hair piece, it looks really stupid, and fools nobody! Swankey Devils C.C. "Spending A Nation Into Generational Debt Is Not An Act Of Compassion!"
Wow. I sure wish I'd spent about 70 bucks for paint and then bought a handful of foam brushes and rollers. Plenty good enough for somebody else's car...
Hey, The one to one mix of JD Green to white maybe alittle too much to hit a Seafoam Green- I suggest three quarts of the white and than add the green a little at a time, whyle mixing it well. You'll need every bit of a gallon to two coat that D-100, and may wanna add some blue, a drop at a time, to hit Seafoam, right on the money, perhaps a few drops of black, as well to tone it down. Swankey Devils C.C. "Spending A Nation Into Generational Debt Is Not An Act Of Compassion!"
How about FREE paint? Go to the body shop and ask for their left over mixed colors. I have done this a number of times. Once they gave me 46 pint cans. I kept mixing the metalic browns with some reds and came out with a very nice root beer color.
for bare metal I used 'Rodda BarrierIII bare metal primer"...primed the tin then did any plastic work on top of the primer....it's an enamel primer and a sealer....then commenced to do my first ever base coat clear coat... made mistakes in laying scallops on uncleared base coat...got runs in the final clear coats covering the stripers outlines of scallops....buried the runs with more clear.... shaved the runs with a razor blade....dry sanded the whole thing with 1200 on a DA...buffed 1...buffed2...buffed fine w/foam pad...whew, ...good enough for me....NEVER use BC CC again for any of my personal rides...all I ever learned on was lacquers and enamels.......WELL it's been going on 12 years now and 80,000 miles and the darn paint has held up really quite well so it really is better than I thought it would be (cost over $1000 over the counter 12 years ago Acme ~ Sherwin Williams brand) sorry don"t know how to put a pic on yet but if you really care to see it go search "Randy Rhoades Watson Fotki"....next jobs will be lacquer (which we can still get in Oregon) or acryl Enamel...was good enough then good enough NOW
You can get it it a lot of colors from Van Sickle, not saying I would but you can. Here's a link: http://www.vansicklepaint.com/tractor/vscustomcolors.html
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ive been using rustoleum on a few projects latley 3 coats sprayed on are dry enough to be dust free after 3-4 hours , can be handled carefully same day ...maybe 2-3 days afterwards you can work on the parts and install them etc , it does go rock hard eventualy any mishaps can be sanded and painted again as soon as its dry , it also wet sands and buffs up nicley and its not super smelly if you have close neibours...it sprays happily over most old surface and hardly ever pickles up or react badly , either paint straight on what you have or use some some rust primer of your choice first while its never going to comapre to a $$$$$$$ paint job , id say its plenty good enough for a low end project or truck etc , your looking at change from $100 for all the paint and materials heres a couple of pics to show the shine
my grandfather used to transport those across the south and north west and evean into canada when my dad was a kid.
a quick and dirty job my grandpa did before my dad bought it. Since we've been cruising it, we've even got complimented on the color of white, how it's unique... Yes it's tractor paint, save for the crimson stripe obviously....
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