Roller painting

[stanc3w0rks]

Anyone have any experiance or knowledge about roller painting a car? Could i just slap the paint straight over what i have now or will i have to sand, primer, roll then lacquer? Im going to be using satin black outdoor paint for gates and stuff.

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[johnny]

Key it and roll on then lacquer it

Or primer if you want to fill the scratches and stone chips

[stanc3w0rks]

Key it as in take the smoothness off it so the paint will stick? What would happen if i didn't lacquer it?

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[johnny]

Yeah just flatten it back till it's dull

Lacquer just protects the paint, helps against stone chips, peeling and poo like that


Obviously your going for rat look and stone chips might not matter but I'd still lacquer it anyway

[stanc3w0rks]

Yea think i'll just sand, roll the paint and then lacquer cheers man

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[sillywotsit25]

Learn fron my mistake get a sander. Lmfao otherwise itll eat at your finger tips and your arms will ache

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[stanc3w0rks]

I wont need to go through the paint though, just need to make the surface abrasive and scuff it up

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[sillywotsit25]

Yea just use some fine sand paper

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[stanc3w0rks]

Anyone know if this paint can be watered down?


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[johnny]

Yeah it can be watered down, need to find out if it's water or oil based

[stanc3w0rks]

I just mixed a small bit with water and dosnt mix so pretty sure its oil based lol. Do i need white spirits then?

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[johnny]

Well any thinners in general should do yeah if you mix it with too much thinners it won't harden properly, so just add abit at a time

[stanc3w0rks]

Will do, cheers that should help the paint dry quicker and not be tacky for ages lol

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[johnny]

You'd need hardener to make it dry quicker, you can buy a liter of it for about a 10er in auto paint shops

thinners mix will take longer to dry

[stanc3w0rks]

Oh then whats the point using thinners? I thought it would help give thinner coats of paint and they would dry faster?

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