Advice on painting old machines - total newbie.
Hoping to solicit some advice from people who have more experience painting than I do, I literally can't think of a time I've needed to paint something so the Woodfast bandsaw restoration I'm doing has me scratching my head. I've used a paint stripper to get it down to bare metal and everything has been bathed in Evaporust so I'm good there but I have no idea on primers and paints etc. Hoping someone can answer the following queries.
Application - Painted on or spray cans? I was initially going to use the Rustoleum 2x primer and satin paints but I saw some people use a brush and paint on the finish for old machinery. Pretty sure spray cans will work better for me but I don't know anything about the Rustoleum stuff, it's just what I saw at Bunnings.
Primer - After doing some research I see there are epoxy based and etching primers, again no idea what I'm doing here but it looks like etching might be the way to go considering all the nooks and crannys that will be hard to scuff up. Brand and type recommendations would be awesome.
Paint - Only real requirements is that it's black and preferably not a gloss finish, was going to get the Rustoleum Satin 2x but I'm open to suggestions. I'm more confused on the acrylic and enamel decision for this job. The adjustment knobs and wheels are going to be colour matched cream to the colour on the badge, friend recommended a place locally that is supposedly really good and can make up spray cans. I suppose I could get the black paint there but I don't even know what to ask for at this point.
Pics below so you can see where I'm at on some parts.
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