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Best black paint to use on cab
RoninEditor:
I second (or fourth?) Rustoleum Latex... the stuff dries amazing and with a couple coats (on wood at least) it comes out like a professional-feeling shelf, like, you know, when you assemble furniture and pull it out of the box; wood on one side, the thick black coating on the other. And, with my wood, with the type of roller I used, it have that subtle texture which matched my coindoor EXACTLY. Someone, literally, that my whole coindoor panel was a solid piece of material... which is why I thought of it for your coindoor TLC.
emb:
--- Quote from: RayB on April 24, 2008, 11:37:17 pm ---I'm also testing a new option. It's a can of black spray paint that's called "Patio Finish". It dries to a "sandy" textured finish.
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You should let us know how that turns out. I was thinking about using that as well, but have not had the guts to do it yet. If you like it, i'll probably end up doing it too.
onespriggan:
--- Quote from: protokatie on April 25, 2008, 01:02:56 am ---
--- Quote ---I'm also testing a new option. It's a can of black spray paint that's called "Patio Finish". It dries to a "sandy" textured finish.
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Let us know how that goes, I do want the finish on my coin door to be as close to the origonal as possible without blowing the budget. (also the paint job on the cab as well)
Also, I appologize to the thread owner for derailing the tread from how to paint a cab to how to paint a coindoor.
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No worries. It's all information I can use later down the line. Painting the coin door will be my next task anyway
RayB:
I just wanted to finish what I started here and report that I like the "patio finish" paint I tried. I used it on some carriage bolt heads and some leg caps. I have not used it on something like a coin door yet, but anyways... the finish is a nice sandy texture, much like the texture of a classic control panel overlay.
Timstuff:
I ended up spending quite a bit more than I probably should have on my black paint, and it's because I didn't know that Behr makes a specific color called "Ultra pure black." Like a dumbass, I went up to the swatches on the wall at Home Depot, and without even asking any questions to the paint associate, I grabbed the "Cinema Star" swatch from the Disney section, thinking it would be black when I got it. It turned out to be more of an extremely dark gray, so I ended up having to ask them to add 8 oz. of pure black. I got the shade I wanted, but in the end I ended up with about a gallon of paint when I only wanted a quart, and it ended up costing me $30. Just tell them you want a very good, pure black color, and tell them it's for an arcade machine. They won't laugh at you for telling them what it's for.
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