Paint for implements - Rustoleum, store brand equivalent, or what?

[sixdogs]

I always prime the implement by hand with a brush with Rustoleum primer and then paint it with their oil based paint (with a brush again).
I put it on a bit heavy and it always smooths out and holds up great. (I do sandblast most things before paint)
Sold many rebuilt implements and had several buyer mention the great paint job.

Tell me more about using a brush for primer. Do you follow up with a light primer spray?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My neighbor has a business building bale spears, he sells a lot of them, all over the state. He brushes all the paint on them and they come out looking pretty good.

SR

 

[sixdogs]

My neighbor has a business building bale spears, he sells a lot of them, all over the state. He brushes all the paint on them and they come out looking pretty good.

SR

I saw a car painted with a brush by an old time master painter who took his time and it was a remarkably good job. Almost couldn't tell.

 

[2458n]

Thank you for the feedback on the lobster red spray paint.

 

[Code54]

Tell me more about using a brush for primer. Do you follow up with a light primer spray?

Sometimes if there is a really weird spot I can't get the brush into I will spray that area, otherwise just brush the whole thing. I have a all steel carry all (sort of a different version as the floor part is solid ⅛" plate steel as are the 18" sides. Bought it at an auction really cheap, sand blasted it, brushed primer on then a nice coat of Kubota orange. Its been sitting outside (uncovered on the dirt) for at least 6 years and when I hit it with the pressure washer now and then it looks darn near as good as it did when i painted it other than some fading. NO rust at all.
I mostly just use those cheap "chip brushes" from was-mart etc so I can pitch them when done. Other than having a stray bristle to pull out they seem to work and no clean up!

 

[j.lwelding]

if you are keeping it, i like to use epoxy primer, and urethane top coat, yes more money but you get what you pay for.

 

[STx]

Rustoleum offered a lobster red can of spray paint that was a dead match for Kubota. Learned of it here. Bad news is Walmart no longer stocks it. Will be trying to make my last ten cans last - as the search goes on.

They have it at Amazon as well - Rust-Oleum Stops Rust Spray Paint, Gloss Lobster Red, 12-Ounce - - Amazon.com

 

[sixdogs]

They have it at Amazon as well - Rust-Oleum Stops Rust Spray Paint, Gloss Lobster Red, 12-Ounce - - Amazon.com

That's $17.62 a can. The real McCoy from Kubota is $12 a can. I understand because I used to buy close enough paint as well but think about OEM.

 

[downsizingnow48]

Home Depot has case of six lobster red $23.

 

[California]

I saw a car painted with a brush by an old time master painter who took his time and it was a remarkably good job. Almost couldn't tell.

When I was a kid I knew an old guy - he must have been born before 1890 - who in retirement painted advertising signs by hand. He told me his occupation had been body/fender work and he repainted with a brush, up into the depression years. Apparently this was inexpensive and gave a result acceptable to the average used car customer. (When a NEW Ford cost $699 there wasn't much margin to make a profit on bodywork).