can it be done? anyone know of anywhere that does it? I know it's oil based and all, so the regular tinting done at like home depot doesn't work. Any ideas?
can it be done? anyone know of anywhere that does it? I know it's oil based and all, so the regular tinting done at like home depot doesn't work. Any ideas?
I've hand mixed white Rustoleum to match the white of my Miata. Did it by buying the small containers of red, yellow and black to use as tint. Found a recipe on-line someplace and then measured as close as I could. I got real close,but not perfect. If you have access to a really accurate scale (in grams) you could do it by weight.
They used to sell a tintable base Rustoleum. I think they discountinued it, or at least Home Depot/Lowes stopped carrying it. I had some white tinted to a turquoise at a Home Depot using their tinting machine and tints. It didn't work out well for me, as I think that whatever they tinted it with oxidized. Color wise, it was fine and it looked great when I sprayed it, but 2 days later it was heavily oxidized. I suspect the tint base was copper and it needed something else in it to prevent oxidation. Maybe if you mixed other Rustoleum paints together, it would work out better than white and tints.
I've mixed difrent colors before. get the 1/2 pint cans.
Spinout007 wrote: can it be done? anyone know of anywhere that does it? I know it's oil based and all, so the regular tinting done at like home depot doesn't work. Any ideas?
Why not?? The paint department sells oil based paint.
As.far as I know. At least in the store I work at. We can not tint oil based paint.
That could have been the failure cause for the turquoise. They used whatever tint came out of their machine, and that machine was for tinting the house paints, so maybe that's why it oxidized on me.
I eventually used that gallon on the underside of my car hauler when I rebuilt it. I needed paint, any color as it was going on the frame/axles under the deck and there it was, so.... The visible parts got Regal Red.
Sherwin-Williams has an equivalent product that comes in a clear tint base. They can tint it to any color you want.
Hmmmmmmmmm gotta check that out.
It's called All Surface Enamel. I forgot to mention that.
I tried no less than 12 times to get home depot and lowes to properly mix the tintable rustoleum. No one could get it even close to what the rustoleum recipe/color card said it would be. After a month of trying different stores and employees the product was suddenly gone from the shelves. It was VERY frustrating.
In reply to ditchdigger:
HD being my daily grind ATM I can believe that. If I don't know the answer I tell the customer so, and try to find someone who does know the answer. Then there are the people I work with that I want to strangle every time I have to bail them out, and appologize to the customer because the @$$hat didn't know what the @#$@ he was talking about, and gave them everything they didn't need, screwed up the paint they were mixing for them, told them the wrong way to do something, etc. Did I mention I "LOVE" my job? It's amazing how some of these people drive without killing themselves much less take on home renovations without frying themselves, either with power tools, or by cutting through a power line that they didn't throw the breakers on.
With all due respect, it ain't the paint. It's HD.
HD and Lowes paint departments are about as far having an understanding of paint products and technologies as the average grease monkey auto mechanic is from being able to knit a pair of jockey shorts.
Oil based paints are tinted every day at real paint stores.
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