how many coats of paint for raw metal?

mengele

how many coats of paint would ye recommend for painting bare metal? Gave it the first coat of rust primer with a brush. The overcoat will be blue and put on with a spray gun so how many runs should I give it for a long lasting finish?

atlantic mist

would you use the galvinise paint?
id get it dipped if possible will last for years.
have shed with just steel (not galvinised) and painted with two coats but no comparison to the galvinised

mengele

atlantic mist wrote: »

would you use the galvinise paint?
id get it dipped if possible will last for years.
have shed with just steel (not galvinised) and painted with two coats but no comparison to the galvinised

no I want to paint it blue. it will be kept indoor anyway for most of its life but would like a good paint finish on it.
How many goes of the spraygun would ye recommend.

Farmer

My 2 cents would say 2 coats of Lowe Rust primer (no other primer comes near IMO) and ideally two topcoats. If I had to do it in three, then one of the topcoats would go.

welton john

if you have brushed the primer on your as well off brush the paint. if your determined to spray it then sand the primer first, then a light coat first then two 'good' coats to finsh should be fine.(by a good coat i mean the max amount of paint you can apply without it running)

have2flushtwice

I agree with Walton John. Sand the primer id you are hand painting it. That will give you a smoother topcoat as the spray will never fill the gaps.

dohc turbo2

Use the small paint roller mighty job and gets good coat on