i dont know if i will get flamed for attempting a "50$ paint job" but i dont have the money to take my 1993 Prelude to the shop to get 1 fender and bumper painted. so the question is does anyone have any experience in the "rattle can" touch up jobs *cough prepreludesh cough* ? all i need to do is spray the fender and front bumper, both are primed, sanded and ready to go, however i have no experience with automotive paint, but i do have experience with spray paint and how to use it. im just a bit cautious when painting a car. any advise/warnings?
It can be done but it takes time and patience, dad did it once to a friends truck that caught fire, I also used to help people alot with it workin at a hardware store. Hold the can no closer than 6 in and NEVER stay still with it, quick sweeping motion with multiple thin coats. If you do it with actual auto paint with a base and clear with wet sanding and a buff to finish it'll turn out decent.
Practice on something else first. As for the bumper, you might need some flex additive so the top coats won't chip (too easily) since there may be some movement with it
G loc: sounds like a good idea, i was going to try it anyway on a separate piece of sheet metal, with primer, paint, clear coat and a good buffing job just to see if the color matches, because ive heard if the color doesn't match up just a little bit, it'll will REALLY stick out on th fender. and ill ask my local body shop about the flex additive, any idea what it is called?
bstaton: seeing as i live in the northwest, wouldn't be too convenient, thanks though
Definitely practice. You will **** up if you try to do it right and its your first time.
I personally noticed a little bit of a difference between rattle can paints/clears and true spray-gun paints/clears. I've painted a couple things here and there with rattle cans and compared to the paint my cousin used when he painted my bumper, the rattle cans were different. Seemed like professional paint that is propelled by compressed air sticks with no effort, whereas you need to "dust coat" the surface with a rattle can a couple times and then lay it wet. I have a hunch this has something to do with the fact that rattle cans are compressed with CO2 (Not the only choice. Propellants can be hydrocarbons, dimethyl ether, or nitrous oxide), and under high pressure the propellant liquifies and mixes with the paint. So, from a chemical engineering standpoint, when the paint is sprayed the CO2 rapidly expands as does the paint which causes cooling. Not much, but enough to lower its adhesive properties when compared to compressed air. Rattle can paint might also be a special mix so that the propellant does not break down it's composition.
Eitherway, this won't be too difficult to perfect but I don't think you'll be happy with the result.
haha no its not knoxville, but thanks everyone for the help. Shimee: that actually makes a lot of sense, ill practice with the dust method and without to see how it works out, but either way i will probably end up posting some pix when im done, to share the results. who knows maybe i can make it look halfway decent......maybe not. i need to get a couple paychecks in first before that happens
I've been thinking about doing this too... but in Flat Black or Satin black, to match my wheels.
I plan to get the lude resprayed in Frost White, but that's gonna run me about $2K and thats with me doing alot of the work. I'm good friends with the collision place down the street since they've worked on the lude before. So they are letting me us all of their tools & equippment.
I really haven;t seen a Dope flat black lude before, so wondering how that would look.
well IMO and based on your signature pic, it would be a damn shame if you sprayed it flat black...that frost white is beautiful. but yeah 2K sounds about right
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