I can buy Valspar today at my Ace store. Benjamin Moore is their featured paint.
Spray paint is a lot better than it used to be!
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I can buy Valspar today at my Ace store. Benjamin Moore is their featured paint.
Ahem, would someone tell me what they consider the best rattlecan paint, price be damned??
I always seem to ass it up, so I'd love informed opinions.
I always seem to ass it up, so I'd love informed opinions.
We.ve still got a few Valspar leftovers.
But remember Ace is a Cooperative. The company is owned by the store owners and the store owners are free to sell about anything they want. The one out in Englewood, FL only carries Porter paint.
Valspar is still on my Aces website which probably means more than leftover stock. Lucky to have a good Ace. It's my goto store especially for cobbling a fix for a wide variety of stuff. It was really great when they had a mini Radio Shack. Saved the day many a time.
I've used this stuff recently. Lots of colors & finishes. I painted some cast iron tub feet without using a base coat of primer and it came out great. It says you can spray at any angle and the spray head is easy to use. Wipe off the nozzle when you're done and it's good to go the next time. At first I used Antique Pewter but I redid them with the Satin Bronze.
I've used this stuff recently. Lots of colors & finishes. I painted some cast iron tub feet without using a base coat of primer and it came out great. It says you can spray at any angle and the spray head is easy to use. Wipe off the nozzle when you're done and it's good to go the next time. At first I used Antique Pewter but I redid them with the Satin Bronze.
I second that, I used the Rustoleum Flat Soft Iron on some horns. I was scared of getting runs or holidays or any of the things that could go wrong spraying a metallic paint up inside a horn.
But they turned out fine, you'd never know they were painted in the garage on sawhorses.
I won't TOUCH Rust-Oleum anymore. Too slow to dry- sometimes not curing at all, seemingly, on some surfaces. Like the cheap oil-based paint that used to be used on schools in the South, in the 1970s.
At least with Krylon- I can paint, have it dry, touch it up, polish it, and be done.
But, when I have a choice- I use Mohawk lacquer. Instant dry, great polishing and touch-up potential. More expensive, but worth it, IMHO.
Regards,
Gordon.
That horn above was light tan when I got it, FWIW.
I painted an old hand plow about 10 years ago with Rustoleum - it still looks new.
I painted a couple of metal lawn chairs 2 years ago with Krylon, they are faded and chalky and look like hell.
I've restored so many tube radio cabinets with Mohawk toning lacquers and finish it off Ace clear lacquer. Mohawk is just great stuff
Rust Oleum Universal Advanced Formula over bare cast iron, no primer. Dry to touch in an hour, dried hard in a day. Recoated two days later with the Satin Bronze, same results.
Rust Oleum Spray Lacquer. Spray, lightly sand in two hours, spray again. Two hours later, dry, smooth and rock hard.
For furniture right?
Where does one buy this "Mohawk"? In my entire life, I don't think I've ever heard of it.
I agree with you 100% on Rust-Oleum and also have found Krylon to be the best cheap commonly available spray paint. RO does have its place, when you are trying to clean up something that doesn't ever get touched (e.g. I painted the support beam in my parents' basement with RO rusty metal primer and then topcoated with RO white, same thing with the steel pieces of their house that held up the brick above window openings, although I topcoated with black there... however today I probably would have used POR-15 in both places instead.)
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I recommend Rust Oleum 2X for general color use, it sprays on very nice and is durable.
I use the satin black lacquer as my primary amp chassis finish, on metal. On an aluminum chassis- etching primer (like Eastwood or something similar), and then the Mohawk satin black instant-dry lacquer. Gives a very consistent, hard, good-looking finish.
It also is an excellent chemical match, to the lacquer finish found on many older electronics pieces, from the 1930s through 1960s. It will "bite" and blend with them, quite well. Great for refinishing old transformer bells and such.
https://www.mohawk-finishing.com/products/wood-touch-up-repair/aerosols/colored-lacquer-enamels/
Regards,
Gordon.
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