Krylon "rust tough" vs rustoleum "hammertone"

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Howdy All,
I've been itching to put my lab-rat brain to use on a paint test.  Over the next 6 months I'll be comparing wear and finish between our ever useful Rustoleum Hammertone Silver and Krylon Rust Tough Battleship Gray on bottle shelves in my Cavalier 64G.  In a nutshell I painted four shelves, two with hammertone, two with the Krylon.  I also sanded two shelves with 40 grit to remove some of the galvanic layer in order to test the effectiveness of the rust inhibitors in the paint.  What this means is each paint is being tested on an unprepared shelf (unfinished) and a prepared shelf (finished).  I'll test the shelves on plastic and glass bottles, keeping notes on the initial loadout and rotating bottle types once a month to ensure equal use and abuse of each shelf.  I'll also take notes and pics.  I'll post everything here for anyone interested.  Today I'll post the written test proposal (includes all details concerning the test and notes taken to date) and initial pics.

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The first pic is the paint being tested.  The lovely model is my daughter.  '>

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Here are two of the shelves modeled by my son.  All four started in similar condition.

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Here are the two Krylon shelves after second coat of paint.  The sanded (prepared) shelf is on the left.  You can still see imperfections in the right shelf (unsanded) but not as apparent as they were after the first coat.

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Here are the two Rustoleum shelves after the second coat.  The sanded shelf is on the left.  No noticible differences between the two.....had to be especially careful not to mix them up when moving them!!  '>

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Here are the shelves in place.
Shelf 1 - Krylon - unfinished
Shelf 2 - Krylon - finished
Shelf 3 - Rustoleum - unfinished
Shelf 4 - Rustoleum - finished

If you have any questions/comments not answered by the proposal, feel free to e-mail me!

Interesting stuff Eric.
Thanks for doing the test for us.

[Bob K]

Great stuff, Eric!

ps.  Remind me not to drink a cup of coffee at Eric's house.  He no doubt would have secretly replaced my favorite brewed coffee with Folgers crystals... '>

Bob

[Kevin C]

Eric

Please give out the information on the bottles currrently in use on each shelf. What is the bottle with the paw print?

Kevin

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Kevin,
The pawprint bottles are Seadog Beer, a local brewery just up the road from me in Topsham, Maine.  There's also a couple of bottles of Dundee honey brown on the third shelf.  The top shelf is Diet Coke, and the last shelf is bottled water.
Bob, you don't want to know what I'd put in your coffee.  Sailors tend to "add stuff" to spice up coffee.......how 'bout some good 'ol bilge wine instead? '>