Rattle Can Paint Deal This Weekend at Ace Hardware $1.99
04-05-14 | 03:17 PM
#1
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From: North of Canada, Adirondacks
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Rattle Can Paint Deal This Weekend at Ace Hardware $1.99
If you have to paint a clunker, stock up now. I have had good look with Ace spray enamel. I've not seen spray paint and primer so inexpensive in awhile.
04-05-14 | 04:36 PM
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From: Maryland
Bikes: Lots of English 3-speeds, a couple of old road bikes, 3 mountain bikes, 1 hybrid, and a couple of mash-ups
Why wasn't this offer available last year? Then I could have painted my Shogun with much cheaper soft paint (I got mine at Lowes)!
I confess - my bikes have the original paint (maybe touched up with nail polish), or they receive the rattle can treatment (after a wet sandpaper scrub-down).
I confess - my bikes have the original paint (maybe touched up with nail polish), or they receive the rattle can treatment (after a wet sandpaper scrub-down).
04-05-14 | 05:20 PM
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Still learning
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From: North of Canada, Adirondacks
Bikes: Still a garage full
Why wasn't this offer available last year? Then I could have painted my Shogun with much cheaper soft paint (I got mine at Lowes)!
I confess - my bikes have the original paint (maybe touched up with nail polish), or they receive the rattle can treatment (after a wet sandpaper scrub-down).
I confess - my bikes have the original paint (maybe touched up with nail polish), or they receive the rattle can treatment (after a wet sandpaper scrub-down).
Sometimes they just need paint, particularly the trash picks. My planned grocery getter.
04-05-14 | 08:50 PM
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I learned from building musical instruments and flintlock rifles that the difference in cost between using cheap material and great material is very small compared to the time and effort you put into it. I would imagine this would apply to bike building and painting too.
04-06-14 | 03:44 AM
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From: Arrid Zone-a
Bikes: I used to have many. And I Will again.
+1 Ace Premium Enamel is good spray paint. Not sure what company makes it for them, but it's tougher than the Rustoleum from Home Depot. Dries faster and harder.
04-06-14 | 05:35 AM
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From: South Jersey
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I have been paying a $1.80 a can for Red Devil & Rustoleum at Big Lots for the last year. I painted the HTK truing stand using RD Primer & green for the top portion & red Rustoleum for the bottom, the Rustleum took forever to cure so it could be handled but the RD was good to go in less then an hour. I did buy some Ace dark blue to paint a fork on a cheap Bianchi I picked up but the frame had a crack so I never got the chance.Restored HTK Tanaka Truing Stand 2012 Photos by Glennfordx4 | Photobucket
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