Trailer Paint?
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Trailer Paint?
Picked up this little IH steel yard trailer last weekend
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...7/MVC-820S.jpg
Anyone have any tips for cleaning, priming, and painting it. It's going to be a spray can job, since I don't have a sprayer.
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...7/MVC-820S.jpg
Anyone have any tips for cleaning, priming, and painting it. It's going to be a spray can job, since I don't have a sprayer.
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It looks as bad as my basement steps entry cover. I used navel jelly & rust-oleum (used one of those paint brush sponges) 2 days ago. I just checked it after yesterday’s rain & there are little spots or rust showing up again. I haven't even had a chance to put on the 2d coat of paint. While it looked good, I must have missed something.
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I painted a couple of our 16" trailers this spring. Pulled them to the sandblasters and blasted everything, wood sides and all. I highly recommend a brush and roller instead of the spray can and I used tremclad.
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Yes, I sure wish I had access to a blaster. I guess elbow grease will have to do...Thanks guys, I never would have thought about brushing it on.
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Problem with the spray cans is; when/if you're down to bare metal, it's hard to get enough paint on to actually prevent it from rusting. I used two coats of primer and at least three coats of paint and some of the paint is rusting through but where I rolled it on the metal, there is no rust. and it looks better than where it is sprayed. If you put it on thick enough, the brush strokes/ roller marks level themselves out and it looks great... I ised the brush to cut in where the roller wouldn't go then roll the rest.
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What I do for almost anything painted "cheap" is sand and prime multiple coats and then brush on Rustoleum. I usually use Hunter Green if doing anything Ford. Problem with Rustoleum is it shows scratches. I bet a gallon of bedliner would do the whole thing and then some.
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