Practically Classics Forum

Summer has aparantly started now so back to making my cars look a bit less like they are fresh out of a scrap yard.
A visit to paints4u to order some rattle cans and it suggests one of these: http://www.paints4u.com/ProductDetails. ... uctID=5539
Has anybody ever tried one? Do they make spraying with a rattle can any easier / give a better finish or should i save my £4 and stick with the cans?

I too would very much like to hear some feedback on this device
I have a similar item on my flea-bay watch list but cannot make my mind up to buy it fearing it may just be a gimmick
Have to say also that my can spray efforts to date have not been great - confined to inner door bottom and similar where the orage peel and runs cannot be seen I kind of hoped the can adaptor might turn me into a super sprayer

I did try a similar-looking thing some years ago, it was useless. However, I suspect technology has improved since then and that one looks to have some good features. One of the main gripes I have with rattle cans is that the nozzle never seems to be far enough away from the edge of it's "housing", so paint gets under the nozzle and always seems to throw a blob of paint just where you don't want it!

For the price, it could be well worth the risk - if it stops that blob/drip, it would make my aerosol spraying so much better - I haven't the facilities for "proper paint" on the modern; the tractors use synthetic enamel, which I can handle without any major problems, but I have to use rattle cans for the car.

Ay up!

I tried one a few years ago and found that it was no real help.

So I bought a spray gun for my compressor instead.

Used them in the past, keeps the paint off your finger nails so folk don't think your cross dressing on the weekends ......that was about it though

I've used Paints4U bog-standard rattle cans and found them a cut above those sold by the likes of Halfrauds, with a perfect colour match and a decent spray pattern.

suffolkpete wrote:I've used Paints4U bog-standard rattle cans and found them a cut above those sold by the likes of Halfrauds, with a perfect colour match and a decent spray pattern.

The car in the image below was painted from stem to stern in those rattle cans:


That picture was taken some six years after the job was done. The best tip anyone ever gave me about spraying from arseol cans was to stand the cans in very warm water to keep the paint flowing well and I happen to know that Fred, who used to own that Rebel, did it that way and also did it outdoors.

Looks very good - but did he use a "can gun"
Oh by the way, I also endorse P 4U for service and quality of paint and match

Can guns weren't even invented at the time and that's sort of the point; gadgets can't compensate for poor technique.

OK, My Paints4U order has arrived, 4 rattle cans of green, 2 rattle cans of clear (i have loads of halfrauds primer in the garage) and a can gun.
If you were curious what it was like, this is it: on the can: the nozzle is freely visable The car is going in to the garage at the weekend to have the sump off and make sure it's sudden lack of oil pressure hasn't ruined anything expensive then (assuming it hasn't) coming back with a new oil pump. As soon as it returns i'll have a go waving some paint about and see if i can have some nice shiny metal rather than matt black new panels.