Plus Petrol disolves it and it never really hardens. Horrible stuff. Best saved for Gates and rusty drain pipes.Hammerite is the worse paint to use on anything let alone fence posts, its a weak paint and no good for car work. One stone chip and it will start peeling away.
how strange. i painted my engine block with it 20 years ago and the steel rocker cover and its nearly as good as when i 1st did it and no rust or peeling .it was sandblasted then 2k acid etched 1st. i also painted my cast iron barrels on the norton with smoothrite and no bother there if the surface isnt prepped properly no paint sticks or will stay onPlus Petrol disolves it and it never really hardens. Horrible stuff. Best saved for Gates and rusty drain pipes.
the original hammerite could only be thinned with there own thinners or carbon tetrachloride it was as hard as hell . the army used to use it . the modern stuff is an enamel but can be thinned with celly thinners . its good stuff but like any paint no use putting it on rusty metal or as a one coat . its best used over an etch primer unless you give it a fair few good coatsWas okay back in the day when it was finnigans hammerite Yes/ no ?
And another one with our mate LangyAhh, dragging an eleven year old thread into the daylight.
And another one with our mate Langy
I tried painting a bike frame with the smooth version from a tin. It may be different to the Hammered effect from a can, but a small fuel leak from a Dodgy petcock soften all the paint on the seat rails by the time I saw it. You can't touch it up , and it took days to scrape it off with a blow torch and a knife. You can't sand it off.how strange. i painted my engine block with it 20 years ago and the steel rocker cover and its nearly as good as when i 1st did it and no rust or peeling .it was sandblasted then 2k acid etched 1st. i also painted my cast iron barrels on the norton with smoothrite and no bother there if the surface isnt prepped properly no paint sticks or will stay on
RIP Langy...Ahh, dragging an eleven year old thread into the daylight.