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Offline grumburg

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Paint your car with a roller!
« on: July 19, 2007, 04:31:35 PM »
Has anyone seen the article in the new HOT ROD magazine about painting you car with thinned Rustoleum and a roller? Takes a lot of wet sanding, but looked pretty good for under $100! Could work on a bike with a lot less work! :o
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Re: Paint your car with a roller!
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2007, 04:55:49 PM »
Reminds me of back in high school when we painted a freinds car in his driveway with spray cans.  The car was to be black.  There was a stray white dog hanging around, and when he left, he had a black racing stripe.
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Re: Paint your car with a roller!
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2007, 05:28:21 PM »
Reminds me of old Cecil Ashley, had a convertible Buick or something.
This was back in the early 70's. Cecil always wore a cowboy hat, boots,
and smoked a cigar, and his convertible was painted with a brush ;D ;D
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Re: Paint your car with a roller!
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2007, 08:09:21 PM »
actually there is a process used on boats called roll and tip used with great results.

 Roll the paint on then 'tip' it out with a brush provides a surprisingly smooth surface

Seen some that you couldn't tell if they were sprayed or roll/tipped.

 Takes practice to get roller work looking nice, rolling wet will allow the paint to settle and flow out after rolling, too wet though and it will start to sag and run.

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Re: Paint your car with a roller!
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2007, 05:15:09 AM »
I have succesfully brush painted with house hold gloss paint 4 of my vehicles my first was a ford transit pickup then my mini van next was a ford cortina estate and lastly a ford transit van , the good thing about painting this way is easy for touching up etc and cheap 8), cheers mick.
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Re: Paint your car with a roller!
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2007, 01:21:37 PM »
Quote from: grumburg on July 19, 2007, 04:31:35 PM
Has anyone seen the article in the new HOT ROD magazine about painting you car with thinned Rustoleum and a roller? Takes a lot of wet sanding, but looked pretty good for under $100! Could work on a bike with a lot less work! :o

Check out this thread; it is one of the longest running on the net and one of the best. 141 pages in total and counting:
http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=3493382&page=0&fpart=21&vc=1. This is the source for the Hotrod article. Search for posts by Aussie Driver. You won't believe what he was able to do with a roller paint job.

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