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Getting paint to dry without roller overlap???
javeryh:
I am getting frustrated. The 3rd coat of paint just finished drying on my cabinet and it looks good from a distance but if the light catches it a certain way you can see the roller overlap marks - like the paint was drying too fast as I was painting it or something. I don't know what to do...
I have been keeping the cab out in the garage where the temperature is unregulated and I've been painting in abut 80 degree weather. Could this have something to do with it? Should I bring the cab in the house where it is air conditioned and try putting another coat on? i've also been painting it vertically (like a wall) - would it help to lay the cabinet down on a side and paint it that way? Anyone have any ideas? I'm using Sherwin-Williams latex paint.
Thanks.
mvsfan:
hey your definately using the right stuff, sherwin williams is grade A, number 1 quality paint. but you are using the wrong formula for something like an arcade cabinet.
one of the top reasons they dont paint bedrooms with oil based paints is because the toxic smell takes forever to evaporate. if they did build a house where they painted everything in oil and also the residents had the means where they didnt need to occupy that house for about 6 months,
the paint would last almost as long as the house did. It wouldnt matter how hard your wife cleaned it, it wouldnt flake, it wouldnt chip unless you totally abused it like Billy Mays trying to sell a product.
But theirs no reason to not paint your cabinet in oil based paint and let it sit outside for as long as its sunny to speed curing.
Id never use water based anything to paint a game thats gonna get beat up by every kid who comes over. For a good example, you can take your fingernail inside any recently painted house thats had plenty of time to cure, and you can almost always still scrape the paint off of the wall.
I can hit my cabinet with a hammer and the areas of paint right on the creaseline of where the hammer pounded into the side of the cabinet, they simply stretch to fill the gaps, and dont break.
Over 7 years my cabinet has gotten lots and lots of dents all over it from rough play. But theirs never a crackline anywhere.
i hope this advice helps.
javeryh:
Thanks for the advice. I was going to use oil but I couldn't get a gallon where I live due to environmental laws. I probably should have sucked it up and bought 2 quarts but I guess it is too late for that. From what I understand I can't paint oil over the latex because the latex needs to breathe and over time it would crack the top coat of oil. Am I right?
I don't think the cab will get abused but it might... I don't know. I'm pretty bummed out but I have to make due with the latex. The color is nice though...
mvsfan:
you must live in CA, New jersey, or New york.
javeryh:
--- Quote from: mvsfan on July 19, 2009, 07:35:54 pm ---you must live in CA, New jersey, or New york.
--- End quote ---
Yup. Jersey.
Any advice (besides moving)?
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