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Has anyone tried the rustoleum that comes in a spray can? im assuming its the same paint but thinned so its spray-able.



It is usable but does not have the same effect.

The aerosol bombs are great for spraying hard to reach places, like door jambs etc.

But if you aerosol spray a body panel, it lays down a fairly thick coat. You have to remember that when you are using a foam roller with a very thinned paint, it leaves a much thinner coat of paint. Being wetter it has time to fully self-level. Whereas the aerosol spray and its evaporant ( carrier ) are designed to dry quickly ( reducing the time the paint has to self-level ).

With the roller system you are looking at laying on multiple coats, with each stage allowing you the opportunity to make corrections by wet sanding before moving on to the next roller coat.

I have seen some 'aerosol' spray jobs that do come out amazing. But these have usually been performed by guys who really knew what they were doing. But to get a 'good' job, they also had to go through multiple wet sandings.

Aerosol spray bombs are pretty unpredictable. Their spray pattern varies between cans and the nozzles on them.

Their spray patterns are not overall uniform in most cases. In some cases they will lay down a greater concentration of paint on the outer area of the spray pattern and sometimes a greater concentration in the center of the spray pattern.

And there is nothing more annoying about aerosol bombs then when they start spitting blobs of paint at the targeted surface.

With spray bombs, the tendency is to lay on a thicker coat. If you were to try to lay on just a minimal 'thin' coat, you would notice that the paint takes on a bit of a furry feel to it. The surface would not be shiny.. it would be fuzzy. That is because the paint content being propelled at the surface you are painting is attempting to dry even in those microseconds it is flying through the air to land on the body surface. So instead of blending in with the paint particles already sprayed on the body part, it instead 'stacks' on top of the paint particles that were previously sprayed. They end up not having a secure adhesion to the lower surface. So if you rub your finger over a 'lightly sprayed' aerosol surface, you would find your finger picking up all the lost paint particles that were not securely adhered to the painted surface.

Then of course there is a simple question of CO$T... with the number of aerosol bombs you would need to do a car or truck taking quite a bite out of your project budget.

Then let us think about the 'overspray' factor, where half the paint content in the aerosol bomb ends up in the air, on the floor, in your lungs, on your hair, leaving a color mist on your garage walls and on your dog

The propellants themselves in the aerosol car are a nasty bit of work on your overall health. That presents a problem if you are working in the confines of your garage. And if you are working outside to disperse or lessen the impact of inhaling the propellants, well the overspray landing on everything around will be increased.

Aerosol spray bombing is possible... and I have seen some end results that were truly amazing. But the kudos for those amazing jobs was more directly due to the people who were doing the work.....

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