Nate Nagel wrote:

just in case anyone wants to use this product... I bought a couple
cans of Rust-Oleum Hammered Metal finish black spray paint (see "oops
I did it again) for an old filing cabinet. I was expecting something
like the finish on an old socket set box; kind of a two-color glassy
patterned finish. Or something like the old "Hammerite" paint but in
a spray can. Well this paint produces an interesting effect, but it
is completely different, more like a regular fisheye pattern. In fact
I suspect that that is how they achieved it because the first coat did
show through to primer in the "low spots." You really need two coats
to cover correctly (and in my case doubly so, as I was using red
primer not black, as I wasn't originally planning on priming the
project that I'm spraying and red was what I had on hand.)

It looks OK, and I don't care enough to strip and start over, but had
I known that this is what I was getting I might have just skipped it
and gone with regular appliance epoxy, as this really wasn't the look
I was going for.

nate

I repainted an ancient range hood with Rustoleum primer and enamel,
using a small Preval sprayer. The old paint was a little gummy and bare
metal showed through ... looks like new now. I used just a little
mineral spirits for the Preval sprayer, as it was such a small job and
didn't want to buy the special product for thinning (the alkyd version
of Penetrol). The trick to not getting any drips or runs is to keep a
foam brush handy, wrung out with mineral spirits, so's to catch them
before they begin to set. The Preval sprayer has a small spray pattern,
and might be tricky for a file cabinet, but they are pretty slick. I
used them also for some louvered closet doors, and they were perfect for
that job.