Rustoleum advise please

[pete127]

Firstly no doubt this has been covered before so apologies for that.

I've read and heard a few things about people doing their cars with rustoleum using a roller and I think its something I want to try.I sprayed the front end of mine not long ago with rattle cans and it didn't turn out as good as I'd hoped(and it cost a bloody fortune to).

I've been on rustoleum sites and there's so many different types,what is the best one I should get?I'm keeping the car the same colour so should just need a quick rub down.

Any advise from past experiences would be appreciated.Thanks.

[8bitash]

all you need is here -

wiki.club8090.co.uk/index.php/Bodywork_and_Glass_Roller_painting

[matttt3222]

theres been a couple of really good threads on here about rustoleum
does anyone have some pics of anything painted in one of the orange or yellows availble in the RAL straight out the tin colours as I'm looking for something to repaint my sprite caravan and found its difficult to see the finished colour from a small colour chip on a website
thanks

[pete127]

Nice one,thanks for that,got some good info on there and has convinced me to go for it over christmas.In the clip he talks about keeping the mix at 20/25 %,I take it thats 25 % thinners?

[steveo3002]

25% white spirit ...have a play some colours thin better than others

[deadlikeme]

www.mx5nutz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=38650

thats my old post on a website I use to use, read it I went through what your going to do Ive wrote what mixes I used and rollers the paint was rustoleum and also has the reasons why it went really wrong and what I could have done about it!!

[wez]

I have sprayed pastel green rustoleum thinned 50% with white spirits through an electric earlex hvlp spray station. Came out very very well indeed, good shine straight out the gun, any less than 50% white spirit and it came out too thick and 'orange peely'

rustoleum was £30
white spirits was £4
earlex spray gun £40

cheapest respray ever I think, and now i've got the sprayer - i'm doing my new van soon in baby blue.

give it a go, cant complain and only took a couple hours start to finish to do a full van, took about 4 days to fully cure, but touch dry aftr a few hours.

The rustoleum 'combi colour' is the stuff you want.

[sheffieldcortinacentre]

if you want a manufacturer colour how to you find the ral number so you can order it from thier range??

ie ford monza/electric blue (1970-74)

[garethj]

Nov 15, 2010 19:36:17 GMT wez said:

any less than 50% white spirit and it came out too thick and 'orange peely'

I found the same when rollering it, it took more coats but it's a doddle to sand down and dries really quick

[Dr Sexy]

Also, be careful if you are likely to re-paint it again, it seems Rusto will react with cellulose thinners...

Good luck, thining and sanding seem to be key for the roller jobs!

RoB

[moggyman]

Nov 16, 2010 2:23:26 GMT sheffieldcortinacentre said:

if you want a manufacturer colour how to you find the ral number so you can order it from thier range??

ie ford monza/electric blue (1970-74)

This place will mix up any colour you want, presumably you'd need the paint code though.
www.tools-paint.com/

[sheffieldcortinacentre]

i know loads of placces that do & i hve the codes but not a RAL code.