Wax / Finish on Spray Painted Surface

[InjectorService]

I have just finished painting my shop cabinets. They are melamine cabinets, and I used rattle cans of Premier paint to cover them. It looks fairly good, but you can see a few dry overspray lines.

I wad thinking of applying some sort of wax to them to try and seal the paint and increase the sine on those dry areas. I was hoping to not have to wet sand or polish for fear of burning through the paint.

Any ideas?

 

[niget2002]

I'd spray a clear coat over it first. Then I'd try waxing the clear. That away you're not possibly pulling any pigment from the surface and only affecting a clear topcoat. If you want it really smooth looking, you could even buff the clear a bit before waxing.

 

[four.cycle]

^ Rattle-can paint is pretty fragile until it fully cures. "Full cure" can take days.
IF I apply any spray paint to a mower deck, or a blower housing, I will wait at least a couple days before I apply any wax, and when I do, I do NOT use anything with any "cleaners" in it - just straight Carnauba (Mothers) and I don't rub rub rub real hard.
I've put Mother's Carnauba on a lot of stuff I've painted (or coated with polyurethane) to help to protect the finish and gussy it up.
Just make sure the paint is fully cured - HARD - before you go at it with the wax.

 

[tncatadjuster]

0000 steel whool after the paint dries, then wax. Nice matte finish, you wont make those shine without clear.

 

[InjectorService]

This is perfect advice thank you all, I might go at it with some steel wool for the matte finish, and wax after. I was definitely going to leave them for a week or so. They are "dry" but it's been SO humid here, I doubt anything is curing for a long time.

 

[four.cycle]

^ It's not temperature or humidity that's the stickler - it's simply the fact that the TOP surface of the paint will cure and harden, but the agents UNDER that top skin are not fully cured in some cases for a few DAYS.

(At least that is what I was told by the nice lady on the phone at "Rustoleum" right before I had to wash down a cabinet with lacquer thinner and start all over.)

YMMV