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The Three Dellortos

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Anyone out there has found a thinner other than the rip off Hammerite thinner ?

       

                                      TJS
 
Hi Tim, If you actaully intend to use the Hammerite....

I find Hammerite excellent for painting the bottom surface of wheelie bins. An excellent surface finish can be achieved by simply removing the lid and pouring the contents of the tin into the bin. Sadly, if you then put anything into the bin, such as a piece of cotton wool, the hammerite will crack, but it sure looks pretty down there.

Or, maybe you just like sniffing the thinners?

Hag.
 
I've tried several and they all work just fine (turps substitute, cellulose etc.) EXCEPT white spirit. If that touches it, throw the brush away, it's just a sticky mess!

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Dick
 
To achieve that classic Hammerite finish I've always found that it's best to apply it with a 4" brush and then carefully flat off between each coat with a piece of burnt toast. To protect the high gloss shine I usually stick some small pieces of newspaper to it.
 
Hammerite should be renamed paintwrong

A few years ago I went to the trouble of getting a twelve foot full length safari roofrack sand blasted from/for my Land Rover, as it was looking a buit scabby.The sand blasters recomended spraying it with Hammerrite straight away, before the air can oxidise the bare metal finish, for which they would only charge a very small amount extra, so I readilly agreed, and it looked brill, four weeks later it was going rusty four months later, in the bottom of little "pock" marks, all over it, and I was painting it again, this time myself, having had it sand blasted again,we now possed our own sand blaster, I then did a three coat finish, red oxide, grey primer, silver metallic gloss top, it lasted from then until now.never used Hammerrite again.
CLEM
 
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