You might look this over. A bit more time, but probably worth
considering. Any paint job will take several weeks to totally
cure except the powdercoat.


http://www.v8alfa.com/index79master....llarpaint.html

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"Bob" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:18:14 -0700, Smitty Two
wrote:

In article ,
Bob wrote:

I have a set of metal drawers in the lab that are getting old.
Ugly
dark, dull green. Looking to paing them black, but I have no
idea what
will be durable and not flake off.

I haven't found 2-part black epoxy (though I wouldn't look
forward to
dealing with it anyway). Anyone have experience with this?

I don't know what your budget is, but I'm a big fan of
powdercoating.
That means taking them down to a local industrial finishing
shop, making
friends with the grizzly old guy there even if he does have a
picture of
Ronald Reagan on the wall, and asking him what it would cost to
have
them thrown in with his next batch.

The correct place is not in the phone book, and when you walk in
it
isn't going to be neat and tidy and in a spendy part of town.
Those are
signs that you're in the shop used by interior decorators to
waste their
clients' money.

To find the correct place, drive down to a couple of machine
shops or
sheet metal fabricators, and ask the shop foreman or the guy out
in the
parking lot smoking a cigarette, where they send their painting
and
powdercoating.

Excellent thoughts. Not sure they have any sheet-metal fab
places
nearby, but I'll take another look. The guy would definitely
have a
Reagan poster though.

OTOH, if this is strictly low budget DIY, then I'm still a
Krylon
advocate. I'm sure you'll hear differing opinions on that,
though. As
with any paint job, thorough surface prep is vital. I have a
sand blast
cabinet which beats the hell out of any other method of prep.

I thought Krylon was acrylic? (Hence the name). Acrylic would be
pretty soft for this app--it would get scratched. I never had
good
luck with Krylon anyway. (Glad to hear that you have). I'd
think that
black oil-base urethane enamel would be tougher, no?