Roller painting

"sony1492" (sony1492) 05/27/2018 at 17:55 • Filed to: Pretty much the FP

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An interesting article after the jump, Basically painting a car with Rustoleum, foam rollers, then wetsanding, and buffing.

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Tristan > sony1492 05/27/2018 at 19:16

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Is it strange that I want to go buy an old truck and paint it with a roller now?

sony1492 > Tristan 05/27/2018 at 19:25

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It’s got me looking at doing it to my own car, I can’t afford a real paint job and I dont want to spray paint the entire thing (did that once and it was meh) Gonna go through with it in the coming months.

There’s other forum posts showing similar results too, just sounds like you need alot of time and patience

Tristan > sony1492 05/27/2018 at 19:39

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I’ve done spray paint before on a CJ-7. It wasn’t great but it wasn’t terrible. Old Jeeps tend to look okay with crap paint, anyway. If I would have taken more time to spray more coats and wet sand/buff it I’m sure it would have looked better.

But who am I kidding... I don’t even wash my car because I’m too busy to care. Free time isn’t in my vocabulary at this stage of life.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > sony1492 05/27/2018 at 20:07

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I guess I look at this and don’t see where it really saves any time, money or effort. Thinking back on painting the racecar in my garage last year, this looks like pretty much the same prep on body work, sanding, more sanding, more sanding, priming and then more sanding...and probably even more cutting and buffing on the back end to get the result compared to spraying. On top of that, you add a whole lot of time rolling, whereas spraying the car is actually the quickest and easiest part of the job.

At least in the desert southwest, outdoor things painted with rustoleoum don’t stand up to sun for very long. It may be a durable paint in terms of adhesion and abrasion resistance, but it ain’t great at resisting UV, which seems like it defeats the point of painting a car to me.

In terms of cost, I don’t really see the savings. You don’t have to spend $400 for a gallon of really high-quality single stage urethane paint mixed to a 30 year old factory Honda color like I did. If you step down to middling quality paint and pick a standard, off the self color, a gallon single stage urethane costs less than $150 with a can of the activator to go with it. Either way, you’re still spending several hundred dollars on sand paper, cleaning solvents, compounding and polishing stuff and other prep supplies.

This always strikes me as the long way around to get an inferior result for at least as much time, effort and money put into it.

sony1492 > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 05/27/2018 at 20:15

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No need for electricity, air compressor, and gun.(cheaper) No fiddling with air pressure and such, significantly less masking, no need for a garage(recommended but not completely necessary)

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > sony1492 05/27/2018 at 20:26

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I still don’t really see the savings. A compressor and gun can be rented for a weekend cheap enough. Admittedly, I haven’t priced them out, but based on my experience renting things like tillers, trenchers, big pressure washers, welders and other equipment, I would be surprised if it cost much at all.

sony1492 > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 05/27/2018 at 20:43

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Your doing more work to pay less money and it does have benefits in specific situations.

No need to rent anything which means you could spread this project over weeks not days.(a large plus in my book)

Negligible but; No need to run a generator constantly(for off grid)

If you live in the middle of nowhere, you will need to buy everything because rentings not possible. The price goes up when you factor in a carport, compressor, regulator, gun. And if you buy all that youll want to use expensive paints.

Urambo Tauro > sony1492 05/27/2018 at 20:46

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I kinda want to do this to my truck.

But I also kinda want to use my truck as an opportunity to practice doing things the “right way” since I’m such a noob at body stuff.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > sony1492 05/27/2018 at 20:46

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A HF spray gun, like the earlex that they use for plastidip will give a great result. $150 and no compressor required. I did my whole repaint in a rental house garage in Georgia with one. A few runs and sure it needed a bit of a wet sand and polish, but not as much as one of the roller painted cars. The need for polish and the runs were due to my inexperience not the equipment. Most of the paint laid down and wetted out nicely, just a couple spots of orange peel that required wet sanding.

As others have said, the prep is the hard part, and the time sink. Spraying is the quick part.

Well I guess you’d not need the full face respirator as well, or spray booth type setup. I ended up building a pvc frame, covered it in plastic and bought 3 cheapo box fans to put on one end, and some furnace filters for the other. I think the neighbors thought I was making a meth lab. But it worked great, and I had less than $300 in it. If it were my home garage I wouldn’t have built a booth, I would’ve plasticed over everything like a Dexter kill room.

Die-Trying > sony1492 05/28/2018 at 18:08

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i have a couple that i have “texturized” for the fun of it....... got a pretty decent grasp on the Brindle pattern. i had put about a dozen layers of paint on the fender, and when i got done blocking it out, it is smooth, with no texture, just the pattern of the paint.

gonna start working here REAL SOON on an Appaloosa pattern.......

wish me luck on that........

sony1492 > Die-Trying 05/28/2018 at 18:13

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If your trying to make patina happen, its working very well.

Die-Trying > sony1492 05/28/2018 at 18:42

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thanks....... but its not so much patina, which is honest aging, or faked patina, so much as using some old paint brushes, and building up a whole bunch of patterns/texture in a whole lot of layers of paint...... its been fun to see how some have managed to lay out.....

i have been sure to pile enough paint on there, so that when i finally start getting to the bottom layers when sanding, there is no more texture on the panel, just a smooth fender with a brindle/striped pattern. appaloosa coming soon

or maybe blue heeler pattern, or

the wild “African Painted Dog”.......

sony1492 > Die-Trying 05/28/2018 at 19:12

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Okay I get it now, that’s a really cool idea. I take it the v8 Bug will have this goin on?

Die-Trying > sony1492 05/28/2018 at 19:27

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the v8 bug is going to have some of this, but i am gearing up, and getting ready to put this into action, (more painted dog than brindle)(

brindle.......) ....... to put the spotted paint on a Ford model T project. i bought two body on frame cars sight unseen, that are supposed to be in rough but “rebuildable” shape..... one has a tree growing up through the frame rails about 10 inches across to give an idea of how long it has been sitting out. i am going to try to “help it out” with more than a few coats of paint. and as long as i am painting, i might as well keep myself entertained right? that and i think i would have the only one around . should make it harder to loose in a parking lot too.......