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Painting a Coin Door. Tutorial?
AlanS17:
Honestly, I just used red rustoleum on my coindoor and it came out great. I mean really great. You just gotta know how to spray paint. Keep pausing to shake the can, do it out in the sun on a calm day with low humidity, do several light coats as opposed to one large coat. I painted my speaker grill the same way and no complaints. If you do it the right way it can take a while, but it's no more difficult. It only takes longer. In fact, I'll probazbly be changing the color of my coin door soon, so I'll be spraying again.
wee beastie:
I just used appliance spraypaint. Looks glossy and perfect!!
Minwah:
I'm gonna just use smooth finish Hammerite spray paint on mine. I started trying to remove the old paint a while ago (sanding), but the places where the paint is good (where the rust is not) are difficult to get back to metal. So I just bought some paint stripper which hopefully should do the trick.
Brax:
My original 1980's midway coin door was factory powder coated. It was starting to rust so I asked my buddy to sandblast the rust. He misunderstood and sand blasted ALL the "paint" off it! It took HOURS. He tells me after, "Boy, that paint was tough!" Ha. Yup, powder coating is durable but after my door was stripped I used primer and a nice semi-gloss paint. it looks as good as new and is plenty durable for a home application. A wire paint stripper attachment for your drill will work as well as sandblasting.