What are your favorite spray paint colors?
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I love to use Duplicolor Metalcast Anodize sprays that are translucent. The colors are awesome, especially over a nicely wet sanded aluminum enclosure.
One I just did was the Rust-Oleum Imaginations(?) color shift metal flake. One of the best results painting I've ever done. Black semi-gloss base and the metal flake/glitter over the top.
I can get photos tomorrow.
One I just did was the Rust-Oleum Imaginations(?) color shift metal flake. One of the best results painting I've ever done. Black semi-gloss base and the metal flake/glitter over the top.
I can get photos tomorrow.
drgonzo1969
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Hell yeah! I would love to see that. That sounds enticing.
Erik S
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6-32 if you’re screw shopping.
I forget who I copied this idea from, but I really like these bent wire standoffs clamped in place with the lid. I’ve never painted an enclosure, but they all get clear coat.
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darwin999
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Rust-Oleum Imagine Craft & Hobby Color Shift Spray Paint Purple Sunrise
It's stunning, but to get the color shift it has to go on top of a black underlayer - I typically use it on top of a prepainted black enclosures.
Just don't overspray, or the top coat will run.
It's hard to find, Amazon seems to be out of it at the moment...
It's stunning, but to get the color shift it has to go on top of a black underlayer - I typically use it on top of a prepainted black enclosures.
Just don't overspray, or the top coat will run.
It's hard to find, Amazon seems to be out of it at the moment...
jessenator
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I'll be semi-serious now; another vote for the Rustoleum Hammer finish rattle cans. Restored a rusty Craftsman chest with the blue (preferred that over the original, neutral gray of a toolbox I inherited), and did a number of old Jeep steel wheels in hammered black.
The blue is less saturated, like 1950s machine shop and not Ford engine block blue, right? I was surprised just how stupidly difficult it is to find. Black is in stock even at my local Ace Hardware.
Anyhow, love 'em, but h*ck if they don't take forever and a day to cure, even in the arid southwest.
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Okay, so the lighting isn't great and it's been super crazy around here: baseball and softball seasons
The purple is dark due to many layers of purple. The green is a nice green. The blue is my favorite, but it's been nicked up from moving (one house move and multiple storage space in said houses). The yellow has a tinge of green, but it's a gold. Almost like a gold top.
These pictures reminded me: I don't have one in red!
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xefned
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It looks great. I dig the beaver!
drgonzo1969
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I’m glad I posted this thread. Everyone has excellent taste 
in spray paint here.
in spray paint here.
Silver Blues
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Beaver??
This man does not recognize Perry the Platypus!!
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Graffiti paint!But not their clearcoat as it melts the rubber of my pedal power cables.
xefned
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Oh! Phineas and Ferb! How did I not recognize that?
Please don't lick the spray paint. This has been a safety warning from pbrommer.I’m glad I posted this thread. Everyone has excellent taste
jessenator
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What you meant to say is don't lick the spray paint before a nice acetone aperitif. We aren't Philistines here.
Ah yes. How heathenly of me! Also, make sure to chew on some cyanoacrylate as an appetizer. Pairs well with the acetone aperitif.
jessenator
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Turpentine over pot grease geletine for dessert
