Rattle can paint question
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Rattle can paint question
I had no choice but to sand my truck body parts to bare metal and prime them with rattle cans of DUPLICOLOR self etching automotive primer. Not an ideal situation but better than the house paint that was previously on there. I want to paint the inside of the fenders black and have the choice of DUPLICOLOR acrylic enamel or acrylic laquer, also rattle cans. After some googling I'm leaning toward the acrylic enamel. What say you? My long term goal would be to have an expert cover the primer and maybe even the black paint with an epoxy primer and then paint. Thoughts? Thanks.......
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You can buy POR 15 4oz cans for about $8/can (six pack) on Amazon. One or two 4oz cans would probably do the inside of a fender and do a heckuva lot more good, protection-wise, than any rattle can paint. Sometimes you have to consider value vs. false economy.
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For the inside of the fenders your best bet would be a paintable rubberized undercoating or a roll on or rattle can bedliner. Both would be a lot better for protection from rock chips and the like.
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You mentioned that you might want to have it professional sprayed at some later date, so I would check with a reputable body man/body shop to see if they can still paint over rattle can primer and some sort of topcoat. Even though it's inside the fenders, they still might want to strip that stuff down to bare metal for a new color coat.
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Mt personal choice is acrylic enamel. Laquer has tendency to wrinkle previous coats of put on to close to eh application of previous coats or too heavy of a coat.
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Thanks for the responses. I am trying to do as little permanent damage as I can. Will probably hold off on the more durable and likely harder to remove undercoatings until I find out if I did a good enough job getting through the previous layers of paint and rust. As the temperature approaches 107* I can tell the quality of my work is declining.
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You mentioned that you might want to have it professional sprayed at some later date, so I would check with a reputable body man/body shop to see if they can still paint over rattle can primer and some sort of topcoat. Even though it's inside the fenders, they still might want to strip that stuff down to bare metal for a new color coat.
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