Hammertone paint questions

[scalebowler]

Has anyone ever tried using a brush or a roller to apply hammertone paint? I've never been able to get the spray cans to give me a finish that looks good. Most of the time it just looks like regular spray paint with some holes in it. The reason I ask is I recently purchased a Kennedy machinist tool box and it looked like when I bought it that it just had some dirt and light surface rust but after cleaning it up there is a lot of missing paint and I was thinking about repainting it.

[rayg]

Hi I used hammer tone spray paint on my Storner, wasn't really happy with the results , so I took the advise for a paint guy. He had me sand it with 800 grit sandpaper to get a nice uniform surface then spray on multi-coats of clear. The result were very good it made the whole thing pop.  Also here a link to another post on this subject

http://soda-machines.com/discussions/index.php/topic,12121.msg95804/topicseen.html#msg95804

good luck!

[scalebowler]

Awesome thanks!
I ended up finding a can of hammertone  paint that I bought for another project and never used and painted the outside part of my cooler liner as a test (figured since it would be hidden inside the cooler anyway that no one would see it and it would not matter much) and I think I figured out how to apply it. Seemed to work pretty good when I did done coat spraying from left to right and then the next coat I went perpendicular to the first coat and for the third coat I went at about a 45 degree angle to the first coat. For the first time I actually have a texture that looks pretty close to what the lid shows. Now to buy 12 cans of the stuff and a spray trigger that will fit these cans (rustoleum changed the button to make it easier to spray but by doing so they made it so I can't hook the handle to the can anymore)

[Kilroy]

I did see a spray bomb  handle today, made by Rustoleum. Whether it will work with their new button I can not say.

[scalebowler]

I did see a spray bomb  handle today, made by Rustoleum. Whether it will work with their new button I can not say.

You know I actually picked one up today while I was getting paint at the home depot. The new kind clips onto the little crimped edge right below the button. I do think I will need to rebuild it though since it is really cheap plastic but for now it will work pretty good.