painting implements with cans of spray paint

[Pooh_Bear]

I have several pieces of equipment sitting out in the back yard.
All lined up in a row behind my little (8x12) shed.
These implements see little use and just sit there on pallets.
Most of these implements are rusty and what paint there was is mostly gone.
Building any kind of structure to store them in is out of the question.
I go thru two tarps a year for the tractor. Can't afford that for implements.

I would like to clean up these implements and get all the old paint and rust off of them and then paint them with something to protect them from the weather.
I would like to just get a few rattle cans of spray paint and paint them.
What do ya'll think about doing this. Any paint recommendations.
I just want to help preserve them while they just sit there.

Thanks.

Pooh Bear

 

[RollTideRam]

I just got through painting my pallet forks with rattle cans. When I went back to the store for can number 3, I picked up one of those snap on spray handles. I used cheap flat black, but whatever color you use, spend the $2.50 on the handle. Your fingers will thank you. Between primer and paint, I was down to using my thumb. JC

 

[Syncro]

I'd buy a quart of Rustoleum rusty metal primer (gooood stuff!) and a quart of Rustoleum enamel in your color of choice, and a $10 paint sprayer from Harbor Freight. This will make quick work of the job and is about as cheap as it gets. Rustoleum in spray cans is second best, but still good.

 

[greg_g]

There is absolutely no UV resistance in those aerosol cans, even if you spray clearcoat over the color coat. I know, I've tried. Before the summer's half out, the new paint is bleached out to the point where white flecks are building up. Black, red, rusty primer, don't matter. Even tried the manufacturer color matching spray cans (JD yellow is almost white in six months). The next year I got a quart of implement paint - International Harvester red I think - from the farm supply store, and slapped it on with a brush. Goes on so thick, you can't even see brush strokes once it's dried (about 8 hours in the sun). Three years later - all that time in full sun/rain/snow - and the color's still there. No clearcoat either.

Betcha one quart and a brush are cheaper too, than half a dozen or more spray cans for the same job.

//greg//

 

[Pooh_Bear]

Is there a name for this "implement paint" or what do I look for.
Will it be at TSC and/or the local co-op.
Should I put rustoleum primer under it first or some kind of rust converter.

Thanks.

Pooh Bear

 

[Soundguy]

By the time you buy enough rattle cans to put enough primer and paint on 'a few' implements.. IMHO.. you could have bought a cheapy spray setup using a chinese gun, and pancake compressor.. etc..

Perhaps consider using a brush on paint.

There are primers for rusty metal.. etc.

Soundguy

 

[Pooh_Bear]

I have a good compressor. Probably still some spray guns around here somewhere.
My dad and my brother painted several cars when I was a teenager.
My problem is when it comes to mixing stuff like paint and hardener.
Two part apoxy, forget it, can't make it work. Bondo is even worse for me.
I'm afraid to try paint and hardener. And us bears is lazy. I like easy.
I can do rattle cans or a paint brush.

I'm actually pretty good with a spray gun. (or rather I was.)
I spent a year in the paint booth at a wood shop I used to work at.
The next year I went back to the wood shop so I could get first shift.
I learned a lot in that year and they were real happy with my work.
But I didn't have to mix anything. Just open 5 gallon buckets and pour it in the tank.
And this wasn't paint, it was stain. Had to be applied extremely uniformly.
They used HVLP sprayers. Don't know how I would do with a cup gun.

Pooh Bear

 

[Farmwithjunk]

I have several pieces of equipment sitting out in the back yard.
All lined up in a row behind my little (8x12) shed.
These implements see little use and just sit there on pallets.
Most of these implements are rusty and what paint there was is mostly gone.
Building any kind of structure to store them in is out of the question.
I go thru two tarps a year for the tractor. Can't afford that for implements.

I would like to clean up these implements and get all the old paint and rust off of them and then paint them with something to protect them from the weather.
I would like to just get a few rattle cans of spray paint and paint them.
What do ya'll think about doing this. Any paint recommendations.
I just want to help preserve them while they just sit there.

Thanks.

Pooh Bear

If you're dead set on spray bombing them, here's my advice. Try to find "Van Sickle" spray paint. Many farm supply places carry it. Van Sickle covers better than the TSC paint. Rustoleum might be a better choice yet.

But don't think for even a second that 2 or 3 cans will paint much of anything. Last spray can project was a plow. (3 bottom) That ate up 9 cans and wasn't even a good paint job.

Get a cheap gun and a can of paint.

 

[Captinjack]

I would strongly advise the use of POR - 15 over the rusty metal after first brushing to get the loose stuff off. It forms a hard coating (black) and prevents the rust from getting worse or bleeding thru if you top coat with another paint.

It is demoralizing to go to all the trouble of surface preparation, primering, and then carefully spraying the top coat only to have rust bleed thru within 6 months.

I wouldn't think of not using POR even if I sandblasted the part as small pits of rust still remain that will cause problems later. The POR painted over "white" sandblasted metal neutralizes the rust and forms a hard air-tight seal.

My paint jobs last for a decade or more rather than 6 months without using this amazing stuff. Yeah.....it isn't cheap, but unless you are going to sell the implement, it pays for itself many times over.

 

[RalphVa]

I don't know what that POR stuff is. What you need to apply, after first wire brushing the loose stuff off, is one of those treatments that turn the rust (iron oxide) into black iron sulfide. Rustoleum makes one called Rust Reformer. NAPA makes one. Trustan is one of the old brands. I've poured Trustan into one of those little pump sprayers and applied it that way.

Then spray on your primer. Then your top coat. Actually, you could just stop with the Rust Reformer or Trustan. It'll protect the implement. I once put Rust Reformer on a snow plow on areas where the paint had been rubbed off. Those areas that had a tad of rust were turned black; the rest stayed apparently shiney bare metal.

Ralph