roller painting

[Gold Boy]

what .... to redneck for you....

anyway just wanted to mention about this technique. it's cheap and works, yes folks i have painted 2 old chev pickups using a roller and industrial enamel (tremclad) and masking tape..

you maybe surprised how well your pant job will look .... i was.

cheers

 

[dbarrett]

what .... to redneck for you....

anyway just wanted to mention about this technique. it's cheap and works, yes folks i have painted 2 old chev pickups using a roller and industrial enamel (tremclad) and masking tape..

you maybe surprised how well your pant job will look .... i was.

cheers

Not me. I have seen great results with a frickin brush. Yeah you heard me-paint brush. My aunt had 2 vintage (60s era) olds ninty eights that she painted with a brush. You could barely see the strokes in a few spots. If she would have color sanded them, you would have never guess they were done with a brush.

 

[Mike C]

Painted my truck last summer with a roller, turned out great and its easy to touch up.

 

[Gold Boy]

nice paint job... but don't you hate over roll lol

anyway one thing you should know is industrial enamel is a little more porous than auto paint which means it will powder in the sun, but it also means it takes car wax well which works out well for protection etc.

 

[gladly]

the rust coat from home hardware works great with a roller, and I have sprayed it with reducer and hardener too, lasted well, looked good

 

[Mace]

rollers are nice, but honestly, a $30 HVLP gun makes life so much easier..

 

[Cruiserdrew]

I painted a Cutlass once with yellow house paint and a roller. That was a stylin' ride, indeed. The seeds that blew off a tree while the paint was wet were an especially nice touch. Circa 1975.

 

[Gold Boy]

I painted a Cutlass once with yellow house paint and a roller. That was a stylin' ride, indeed. The seeds that blew off a tree while the paint was wet were an especially nice touch. Circa 1975.

i find this technique is best done in the morning when there is no wind ;p

 

[Gold Boy]

the rust coat from home hardware works great with a roller, and I have sprayed it with reducer and hardener too, lasted well, looked good

hardener, what hardener? more info please, sounds heavy duty....

 

[gladly]

I used r-m limco reducer and hardener at first, since it was made to work with their polyurethane and alkyd products, seemed it should work (and it did) then I tried it with regular fast reducer and generic hardener (super wet look by sherwin williams IIRC) and that worked fine too. tried it with reducer and no hardener and that worked fine too tried it with varsol, that worked okay, but a little flat.
if you use the hardener, read up on the safety precautions, it's nasty stuff

 

[Tunnelratt]

Dad used to be a pretty good body and paint guy, I watched him paint a neighbors car with a Kirby Vacume cleaner about 40 years ago, had some kind of spray attachment