boy&hisdogs
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I have always wondered about those Duplicolor spray cans they always have on the shelf at O'Reillys, Autozone, etc and I had some rust under my toolbox so I decided to do a bit of repair work before putting rail caps on. Since the entire job was going to be covered and protected by the rails I didn't try to blend anything, just masked it straight and went for it.
I sanded with an RO sander to get the rust and chips and junk off, then shot it with 2 coats of filler primer, sanded with 500 by hand, then shot 4 coats of Duplicolor Perfect Match (matching my paint code of course) and 2 coats of the duplicolor clear. I followed the directions on the cans pretty carefully. I sprayed every first coat very light and got progressively thicker with subsequent coats.
This paint is THIN. Really thin. The plus is that it goes on smoothly, the minus is that it doesn't cover. I used almost the entire can to do about 4ft worth of bed rail (2 on each side, under a cross bed toolbox). Everything went smoothly, even though I was painting outside on a cool, breezy day. I didn't do any final sanding/polishing of the clear, what you see is straight out of the can. The dirtyness is from spending the night under a pine tree.
The green tone looks good, and the metalic looks OK, but its too light, even after 4 coats. I think my problem was using a light colored primer under such thin paint. I bet if I used a black primer it would have matched much better.
I sanded with an RO sander to get the rust and chips and junk off, then shot it with 2 coats of filler primer, sanded with 500 by hand, then shot 4 coats of Duplicolor Perfect Match (matching my paint code of course) and 2 coats of the duplicolor clear. I followed the directions on the cans pretty carefully. I sprayed every first coat very light and got progressively thicker with subsequent coats.
This paint is THIN. Really thin. The plus is that it goes on smoothly, the minus is that it doesn't cover. I used almost the entire can to do about 4ft worth of bed rail (2 on each side, under a cross bed toolbox). Everything went smoothly, even though I was painting outside on a cool, breezy day. I didn't do any final sanding/polishing of the clear, what you see is straight out of the can. The dirtyness is from spending the night under a pine tree.
The green tone looks good, and the metalic looks OK, but its too light, even after 4 coats. I think my problem was using a light colored primer under such thin paint. I bet if I used a black primer it would have matched much better.
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