Painting Chassis with Steel-It

[smracing]

I plain on painting my four seat Goatbuilt Ibex chassis with Steel-It spray cans. Just the tube work, no panels or axle housings. Any idea of how many cans it would take? Think twelve is enough?

 

[87manche]

Find out how many feet of tube in chassis
Read steel it instructions on how many sq ft a can covers
Math?

 

[subybaja]

"I wonder why he'd use so many spraycans instead of brushing?"

Oh.

 

[Dethmachinefab]

I plain on painting my four seat Goatbuilt Ibex chassis with Steel-It spray cans. Just the tube work, no panels or axle housings. Any idea of how many cans it would take? Think twelve is enough?

I'd plan on 3 cases.

They go really fast.

Edit- I see they come 12 to a case, so probably 2 cases.

 

[SKULLYOTA]

Other than being able to weld thru it, is Steel It that much better than regular paint?

 

[RPS1030]

Other than being able to weld thru it, is Steel It that much better than regular paint?

At almost $40/can now, I dunno

Seymour has a new Stainless paint that comes out Satin apparently at about half the cost. Unknown on coverage of either.

 

[Provience]

At almost $40/can now, I dunno

Seymour has a new Stainless paint that comes out Satin apparently at about half the cost. Unknown on coverage of either.

Holy hell!

Uh, for $500 do real paint and just sand/repaint whatever you need to fix

 

[Lee]

My only experience with weld through primer is some SEM stuff, it covered fine, but actually welding through it was not pleasant.

 

[Dethmachinefab]

I like how my chassis came out. Being able to do repairs and have it look 100% with a little rattle canning is pretty valuable. Seems durable when done correctly.

I wouldn't weld through it. It's just ss powder in polyurethane and that shit will burn all nasty.