I see alot of people rolling there cars but i dont want to sand that much. I can spray The apple red rustoleom threw a gun right. Whats the ratio of paint to mineral spirits. I want to weigh my options. How many coats will i need to spray. My car is a 89 std hatch that is already red and i want to make it look new again. If i roll it i have everthing i already need. Just will need more sand paper. Let me know what u perfer. ROLLED OR SPRAYED> Thanks.

 

Spraying is better in my own opionion because it's quick and has good results. I rolled my paint on after seeing the $50 paint job thread and i sanded it back. I sanded right down to the original primerand made sure each panel was nice and smooth, then what i did was fill up a bucket of hot water and let the cans sit in there for a while. Then after i finished the prep work i started spraying. I got a shock at the results, first coat.. looked like primer second coat got darker, third i started to see a reflection of me and my surroundings, forth coat it started getting nice. All my car needs now is laquer to protect my paint. Comes up nice when polished with car polish. What i'm saying is if you enjoy sanding go for the roller job, if you dont use spray. Trust me, if you do aspray can job right, it will look hot.

 

Oh yeah and also, if you use rattle cans, be sure not to rush .. Do a panel at a time. Thats what i did. I want to post up pics but i got to get the camera of my gf.

 

Hes talking about spraying with a gun, not a rattlecan.

Id say spray it, if you can, it works better. Just be sure to cover the area well, youll be spraying paint all over the place. You dont want to have to pay to get your neighbors car resprayed because you couldnt be bothered to move your car into the back yard.

 

so u just set the can in hot water and never mixed it with mineral spirits. U didn't sand either. Want to see the picks.

 

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Uh... please explain how you'd plan on mixing mineral spirits with a rattlecan.

You stick rattlecans in hot water to increase the pressure for a more even spray.

 

oh my fought. I thought he put the roll on paint in hot water. Thanks for correction.

 

I thought the same thing.

Will the rustoleum work fine in a spray gun?

 

is this some sort of a joke, rolling paint onto a car are you out of your mind?

the only RIGHT way to paint a car is with a spray gun NOT a spray can or a roller, the spray can is going to look like crap and so is the roller you are better off to take it to a shop like macco.

I cant belive I just said take it to macco.

 

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the only RIGHT way to paint a car is with a spray gun NOT a spray can or a roller, the spray can is going to look like crap and so is the roller you are better off to take it to a shop like macco.

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I dunno man... I got some damn good results out of the roller technique.

Rattlecans on the other hand, are junk for painting a car. I've painted motorcycles with them and had decent results, but the pressure in the can goes down, the nozzles clog up, your finger catches the spray, there's so many things that make rattlecans suck.

I don't know about spraying rustoleum through an hvlp. There's really no reason to. If you have the equipment to spray it like that, pick up some single stage automotive enamel. Might be a little bit more than rustoleum, but you're not going to be hurting too badly.

And Maaco... well they suck. I was going to take my car in for their top of the line paint job until I saw a few cars that had been painted there. Nothing in particular was the same on all cars (all done at diff shops) but the paint was uneven, had a wierd shine to em, were thin as crap, chipped easily, and had poor masking lines.

Before I painted my car I was tossing around a few ideas, Maaco, rattlecan, roller or borrow equipment for hvlp spraying. I setup the garage for using the hvlp, but ended up using a roller because I wanted to be able to say I painted my car with a roller, not to mention there's minimal masking, no smell, no mess. I weighed the work involved with that process against what I could get out of my other options and decided it was the best for me at the time.

Would I do it again? No way.

 

sorry to bring up a older post but has anyone every sprayed the thinned out rusteolum on with one of those electric sprayers that they sell at lowes instead of a air compressor sprayer????

 

no offense to the roll on/rattle can guys but why in the world would u want to do that. i would recommend sparying it with a bescoat/clearcoat. personally, the chapest i would go is a single stage job. i dont even really care for going single stage. i would rather basecoate/clearcoat over anytrhing