Best industrial paint for drill press

[Crank1]

I've finally got my garage built, and dragged one of my 15" clausing drill presses out of the barn to refurb. I have followed some threads here closely but not made a decision on paint, not much info from people regarding paint it'd seem.

Anyway, I want to paint it a wrinkle or "hammered" finish like rustoleum has, but in red. Which they do sell rattle cans of online. But I fear that the regular rattle can paint will scratch and chip and generally just not adhere well, so I'd like to know if anyone out there has any alternatives for this? Wanting to jump into the rebuild of this thing so I can get it up and running soon. Thanks guys!

Brandon

 

[geologist]

It's pretty durable. Most hammered paint has ground up mica in it and can be quite scratch and chip resistant. As for hammered paint in general, you can tone down the hammered effect by mixing MEK with hammered paint (the non rattle-can variety) before spraying or brushing it on.

 

[Crank1]

I don't mind the texture, in fact that's what I'm after, think new wilton vise, only a bright red color. Is the hammered paint(non rattle can) generally more rugged than the stuff out of the rattle can? I've painted a few things with the Rustoleum hammered paint and they seem to be pretty scratch proof and rugged. I just don't want fluids to easily remove the paint or something, like cutting fluid or the like.

 

[theoldwizard1]

Paint "adhering" has to do with preparation. Clean it well and use a "metal prep".

 

[Outlawmws]

Paint "adhering" has to do with preparation. Clean it well and use a "metal prep".

This, and use a good primer.

 

[Jack Olsen]

This was posted by Red Leader in the discussion about restoring my drill press. He's restored a bunch of tools recently:

I like the look of the Hammered paint (a lot, actually), but in terms of durability, have found it wanting. I think it has something to do with a lack of a real hardener or it might be the solids content. I will say that I have had excellent results with the Duplicolor self-etching primer as a first coat and it could be that not using it on certain projects was really the source of my problems.

 

[KenC]

Hammerite . By far the toughest paint I've found. Kind of hard to apply without runs, but once done it is really hard to beat. I painted my Unisaw and workbench 12 years ago and they still look new. Well, except where I spilled paint remover on the bench and didn't notice till the next day.

 

[dr_clyde]

Ive had really good luck with DuPont Imron's industrial line. It's supposedly direct to metal, but I prime everything with PPG DP-90 which is a black epoxy primer that dries quick and is non sanding if topcoated within 24 hours.

 

[geologist]

I don't mind the texture, in fact that's what I'm after, think new wilton vise, only a bright red color. Is the hammered paint(non rattle can) generally more rugged than the stuff out of the rattle can? I've painted a few things with the Rustoleum hammered paint and they seem to be pretty scratch proof and rugged. I just don't want fluids to easily remove the paint or something, like cutting fluid or the like.

As mentioned below, Hammerite is good too. The benefit of spraying from a compressor style paint gun rather than using a rattle can is that you can adjust the spray width and stream to lay down a more consistent finish. In my opinion, it tends to make the hammering look a bit more even / uniform overall.