Equipment paint

pat sublett · Mar 17, 2018

Anybody tried to spray Rust-oleum Farm & Equipment paint with a HVLP gun. Label says Brush, Roller and Airless sprayer.

glennster · Mar 17, 2018

you will need to reduce it, prolly 10 to 20% with mineral spirits and use a 2.0 tip in the gun. its heavy bodied. you will get a lot of orange peel too. shoot a tack coat first the two heavy wet coats. watch for runs and sags.

Stephen Newell · Mar 17, 2018

When spraying an oil based enamel it works better to use naphtha to thin with. It's a faster drying solvent than mineral spirits. What ever thinner you use don't over thin it. It will take longer to dry and screw up the sheen when over thinned. An oil based enamel should splatter a little. It dries slow enough it will flow together on the surface.

David G · Mar 19, 2018

Can you put on a real thinned down final coat to gloss up?

ptfarmer · Mar 19, 2018

It doesn't say anything about it being an enamel paint, it says do not use gloss hardener, and only use up to 5% mineral spirits for thinning (as per their website). I use their regular enamel paints with enamel reducer, and gloss hardener. From what I've read from their website about their farm equipment paint I don't know if I would use it.

This should be on the label of the can.
Painting: Stir thoroughly. Thin material only is necessary with mineral spirits. For brush or roller, thin no more than 5%. Do not thin with gasoline, lacquer thinner, turpentine, etc. Apply with a good quality brush, roller or spray gun.

Stephen Newell · Mar 19, 2018

Any paint you thin with mineral spirits is an enamel whether it says it on the can or not. When I used the equipment paint on my tractor I used the enamel hardener and it did fine.

When you spray an enamel it's really better to thin with naphtha rather than mineral spirits. Naphtha is a faster drying solvent.

I had an employee thin some lacquer with kerosene one time. That was interesting. The stuff looked like some badly soured milk. Fortunately it never went in the gun.

glennster · Mar 20, 2018

it would dull down because of diluting the clear. for a solvent blend, that is what you would do for a color match blend, but then you will need to buff back over the area. with the synthetic enamels a heavy wet coat will produce a smoother glossy finish.

David G · Mar 20, 2018

Thanks

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