Thread: Is this paint any good..

Well personally I think it is crap because it does not come in lightish red..

But I will look beyond that major deficiency and say I did a search and they seem to sell it world wide


http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/t...s-again.35239/

To be honest it seems too cheap to me, but you never know... I would personally put a primer on first.. I hate painting, but preparation seems to be the key to a long lasting paint job...

Apparently, Aldi gets his paints from the German maker Caparol. http://www.caparol.de/en

However, I personally doubt that Caparol will put the same ingredients in the Aldi tin, as they put in their more expensive tins for professional painters. You only ever get what you pay for. Another point to consider is, it will be hard to buy more of this paint once the sale is over. So a few years down the track, you may have to paint over it with a different product, and there will be no guarantee the two are compatible.

Is it worth taking the risk? To paint the gate or a shed door, yes why not. To paint the painstakingly restored machine tool..... naah!

I love a bargain but TBH, the paint will be the cheapest part of your trailer build. Be a shame to potentially ruin it with crap paint. It maybe OK but you won't know till you use it and find out. Roll the dice if you like…. or use it on something less critical like a gate as suggested.

Simon

Wish we had an Aldi here - I'd by a trailer load at that price. Presumably it's an enamel and no different from the paint you get from most hardwares (Rust Guard?). These type enamels can be thinned with pretty well anything: enamel thinner, turps and petrol and some can even be thinned with lacquer thinner. You can't swap to another thinning medium halfway through though, unless you want a tin of congealed muck. Most of the enamels like 'Kill Rust' or Rust Guard' don't require an undercoat, but if you want a nicer finish? Of course the trade off is it takes longer to apply a nicer finish and even longer to touch up (enamels won't feather), trailers, typically, get bashed around a lot.
How many trailer manufacturers use an undercoat?

Thanks for the feedback guys..
to tell you the truth im pretty tempted - as it's only a motor bike trailer and it will get sandblasted pretty quickly form going up dirt roads all the time.
Going to stock up on a few tins for around the garden too..
not sure why they sell green? not much to use green for. think I will have to go black.. probably the best of the colours for a trailer.

Originally Posted by timbo123

Thanks for the feedback guys..
to tell you the truth im pretty tempted - as it's only a motor bike trailer and it will get sandblasted pretty quickly form going up dirt roads all the time.
Going to stock up on a few tins for around the garden too..
not sure why they sell green? not much to use green for. think I will have to go black.. probably the best of the colours for a trailer.

Aldi had this paint on sale about 2 years ago, I bought some for use on some guttering and metalwork around the workshop and another shed, used it inside and out in the weather, can't fault it so far.

I've used this paint for 2-3 years and found it quite ok. It's fairly thin in texture and generally needs three coats for best coverage. It's advertised as not requiring primer and I've used it both with and without. It has 16 hour drying time and once it's really hardened over a week or so, it's excellent. The older Aldi paint that I have (2 yrs?) really hasn't skinned much as conventional enamel does after the tin has been opened. Two year old unopened tins have been excellent. I'm certainly no paint expert but it seems to be more a solvent type paint. For the price, I view it as good value. For top notch jobs, I'd prefer a quality paint such as Dulux but most of my workshop equipment (benches, stands etc) has been painted in Aldi enamel. - Peter

From a thread in the Welding section, the consensus is yes, it is very good indeed.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...=187072&page=2

Information of interest:

It is an Aldi paint for metal that can be applied over rust, not really over rust, as we all know, but obviously over surface rust. I have this in Silver and Black in one litre tins. It's made in Germany and I have seen the parent product in Germany this year at the sister in-laws place.

The product was suggested to me as one of the best products on the market, as in, it's ability to actually cover mild surface rust, seal the whole and remain sealed for many years. This was from the son of my sister in-law who has a doctorate in chemistry and works in Switzerland for possibly the largest chemical company in the world (German). He specalises in industrial chemistry products and in a former place of work, his job was leading the team in the formation of protective products for many applications, one of which was covering bare metal to protect it from the elements in salt water using a paint brush at worst or spray gun at best.

The overwhelming consensus is that this stuff is OK. I take it back what I said earlier. What the hell, give it a go!

Simon

I don't... It still does not come in pink...

My local ALDI only had about 10 cans left on display at 9am this morning. Nabbed a few.

I got 2 cans of silver this morning to paint the underside of my trailer and also some ridge iron on the back of the garage. Both areas are over 30 years old so I figure I can't go far wrong with that paint as it will probably outlast my time at this house.
Should have got a tin of Green to do some outdoor furniture frames so will have to go back for that.

I had the same problem as pippin88. Only a couple of cans left at 8.50am Saturday. Wanted silver but had to settle for green and black.

Regardless of the quality of the paint, it is always wise to go with a decent etching metal primer/undercoat first.

I've been getting good resukts from Wattly superetch for years.....that is in a thnners formulation...if you want the same product in a turps formulation look for Kilrust metal primer.

AND
remember to scrub it in with a brush into all those corners and weld lines.

cheers