Comments on: Paint Your Car With a Roller for Under $100 http://horsepowersports.com/paint-your-car-with-a-roller-for-under-100/ Horsepower, future cars and good old fashioned hot rods Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:59:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mark Satterfield http://horsepowersports.com/paint-your-car-with-a-roller-for-under-100/comment-page-1/#comment-23254 Mark Satterfield Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:24:20 +0000 http://horsepowersports.com/paint-your-car-with-a-roller-for-under-100/#comment-23254 I sprayed my Ford Thunderbird with Rustoleum Smoke Grey & a $10 Harbor Freight gun. Paint looks great! Wound up with orange peel, but that was a result of technique. The paint was thinned per the can (2 ounces acetone to 8 ounces of paint). The last coat went on with a little more thinning, a little more air, and a little less fluid -- resulting in less orange peel. Preparation was 60 paper with an orbital sander to get the clear coat off, then 220 wet/dry. After two weeks in the Florida sun, still looks great. Total cost of consumables (paint, tape, thinner, et all) was less than $40. Still need to sand down the orange peel. Will post back with results after six months. --Mark http://www.marksatterfield.com I sprayed my Ford Thunderbird with Rustoleum Smoke Grey & a $10 Harbor Freight gun. Paint looks great! Wound up with orange peel, but that was a result of technique. The paint was thinned per the can (2 ounces acetone to 8 ounces of paint). The last coat went on with a little more thinning, a little more air, and a little less fluid — resulting in less orange peel.

Preparation was 60 paper with an orbital sander to get the clear coat off, then 220 wet/dry.

After two weeks in the Florida sun, still looks great. Total cost of consumables (paint, tape, thinner, et all) was less than $40.

Still need to sand down the orange peel.

Will post back with results after six months.

–Mark

http://www.marksatterfield.com

]]> By: gooberhead http://horsepowersports.com/paint-your-car-with-a-roller-for-under-100/comment-page-1/#comment-23061 gooberhead Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:03:59 +0000 http://horsepowersports.com/paint-your-car-with-a-roller-for-under-100/#comment-23061 This process if VERY labor intensive. Repeated painting/sanding/painting is required. Time and patience are the key. I tried this technique and the results were initially poor due to my lack of patience. So I revisited the process and put down 5 coats of paint over the course of 5 weeks (allowing each coat to dry for 1 week before wetsanding) and the results were much better. This process if VERY labor intensive. Repeated painting/sanding/painting is required. Time and patience are the key. I tried this technique and the results were initially poor due to my lack of patience. So I revisited the process and put down 5 coats of paint over the course of 5 weeks (allowing each coat to dry for 1 week before wetsanding) and the results were much better.

]]> By: Jim777 http://horsepowersports.com/paint-your-car-with-a-roller-for-under-100/comment-page-1/#comment-22244 Jim777 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:56:49 +0000 http://horsepowersports.com/paint-your-car-with-a-roller-for-under-100/#comment-22244 This technique for painting a car does work very well, better than most people would believe. It's very inexpensive and adds a lot of value to a car if the paint looks really bad to begin with. The key is the "color-sanding" which is taking 1500-2000 grit sandpaper and hand sanding the entire car between every 2-3 coats of paint. This is done to get the uneven "orange-peel" look of the paint out. Even if you spray a car, it will need to be sanded down after the coats of paint to smooth the paint out. THIS is why a real paint job cost $3000. It's a lot of labor to get it right. You'll have to put about 10 total coats to get a good paint finish and it's going to take a lot of hand work sanding but if you take the time and do it right you'll have a really great looking paint job that looks AS GOOD or better than a $3000 paint job. I would much rather take my time and effort and paint my car with a roller myself and get fantastic results than part with $3000. Just think of the value your adding to the car that you can get back when you sell it! This technique for painting a car does work very well, better than most people would believe. It’s very inexpensive and adds a lot of value to a car if the paint looks really bad to begin with.

The key is the “color-sanding” which is taking 1500-2000 grit sandpaper and hand sanding the entire car between every 2-3 coats of paint. This is done to get the uneven “orange-peel” look of the paint out. Even if you spray a car, it will need to be sanded down after the coats of paint to smooth the paint out. THIS is why a real paint job cost $3000. It’s a lot of labor to get it right. You’ll have to put about 10 total coats to get a good paint finish and it’s going to take a lot of hand work sanding but if you take the time and do it right you’ll have a really great looking paint job that looks AS GOOD or better than a $3000 paint job.

I would much rather take my time and effort and paint my car with a roller myself and get fantastic results than part with $3000. Just think of the value your adding to the car that you can get back when you sell it!

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