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Any reason I shouldn't use spray-on hammerite to smarten up the rocker cover in the Mini? Heat resistance possibly an issue? In an idle moment last weekend I gave the top radiator bracket a couple of coats and it's come up so well I'd like to have a matching rocker cover. Before and after:  Yeah I did the bolt heads too... |
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1969 Land Rover Series IIa
1980 MG Midget (bro's)
1981 Land Rover Series III
1981 Mini 'Cooper'
1982 Mini HL
1983 Mini Sprite
1987 Mini Advantage
1994 Mini Sprite auto (oil leak left as standard)
2002 Alfa Romeo 147
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omega
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hammerite good in the garden
bad on the car.
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omega
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hammerite good in the garden
bad on the car.
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Last Edit: Feb 6, 2014 22:38:48 GMT by omega
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Kieran
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No problem with temperature, you can use normal spray paint too.
Hammerite isn't rated because it takes ages to dry and is fairly brittle when cured.
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Last Edit: Feb 6, 2014 23:16:31 GMT by Kieran
The Ashby Jackson fleet:-
1979 Mini Clubman 1.8 K series
1978 Skoda 110r Project 130RS K-oupe
1978 Austin Allegro 1500 SDL Estate
1984 BMW K100 Sidecar outfit
1999 Yamaha FZS 1000 Fazer
1991 Kawasaki ZXR400 race bike
2002 Kawasaki ZX9r race bike
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reliantreviver
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Use all the paints. Any paints. Technicolour paint by numbers. Colour coding is for squares. Here's a hammerite'd rocker cover for you...  I can confirm it has chipped, But not affected by the heat. |
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Reliant "750" Super Robin, Scimitar SS1s - 2 x 1300, 1 x 1600, 1 x 1800ti. 76 years off the road between them!
Also - Mitsubishi Galant Sport and Hyundai Coupe Gen3
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Thanks for the advice - not at all concerned about perfection - there's hammerite going spare so hammerite it is! Use all the paints. Any paints. Technicolour paint by numbers. Challenge accepted. This is what I really wanted to know. Thank you! |
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1969 Land Rover Series IIa
1980 MG Midget (bro's)
1981 Land Rover Series III
1981 Mini 'Cooper'
1982 Mini HL
1983 Mini Sprite
1987 Mini Advantage
1994 Mini Sprite auto (oil leak left as standard)
2002 Alfa Romeo 147
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Hammerite isn't rated because it takes ages to dry and is fairly brittle when cured. Thanks especially for this - been wondering why it gets so many people's backs up! |
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1969 Land Rover Series IIa
1980 MG Midget (bro's)
1981 Land Rover Series III
1981 Mini 'Cooper'
1982 Mini HL
1983 Mini Sprite
1987 Mini Advantage
1994 Mini Sprite auto (oil leak left as standard)
2002 Alfa Romeo 147
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It goes brittle cos people try and put it on thicker than thick stuff lol , I've found if you add a touch of thinners and thin it out a little it goes on a treat and doesn't take 4 months to dry .....
Although that being said I'm sure a rocker cover will dry it up quite quickly lol ,its enamel based so will be a little more brittle but never had any issues with it personally.
Like said elsewhere any paint will do as long as its not your nans living room magnolia haha
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I painted a brake drum with hammerite, waited a week and bolted the wheel to it and the paint cracked.
But for a rocker cover it'll be fine.
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1966 MK1 Cortina
1971 Hillman Super Imp
1985 Volvo 360 GLEi
1986 Volvo 340 1.7
1990 Mercedes 190e 2.0
1993 Peugeot 205 STDT
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In late 70's when Hammerite first became popular I used it on all sorts of things with good results. Rocker cover, air filer housing and such were all done in nice bright red on my Triumph 1500 FWD. They lasted very well but I think the formula has changed over the years and I no longer rate it any better than other paints. The Triumph had a Thrust Sidewinder exhaust fitted with all the pipework and silencer under the chrome cover painted with the same red Hammerite. It actually only burnt off on the bends with straight sections just getting a darker "singed" colour that still held back rust.
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i used hammerite smooth on 3 engine blocks so far, it did go soft the first time engine was ran up, but after a few heat cycles it was rock hard. its a synthetic enamel paint.
also used it for various ancillary parts on my land rover and deliberately baked them in spare oven at over engine block temps
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I've painted engines with hammerite, engine laquer and basic white spirit thinable enamels.
No discernible difference between any of them ime
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Spray on hammerite is only good for painting over greasy rusty stuff you don't want to really clean up very well and aren't bothered if the finish is poor, and are happy to pile loads of coats on. Brush on stuff is better because it covers in less coats, if you are happy with it looking like a pensioners bathroom radiator.
Engine blocks and garden gates seem to keep them in business somehow, it's poor paint in every way apart from being OK about being lashed over any old greasy rusty mess. It will stand the heat fine, but so will celly or acrylic aerosols. They would give you a better finish, but you'd need to do much better prep.
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adam73bgt
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Hammerite on a rocker cover?adam73bgt
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Back in the day, my mum painted her first car ( a mini) in silver hammerite with a brush as she didn't like it being yellow.. I can't imagine it looked too great  rocker cover should be fine though |
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oakesy
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'66 Scimitar Coupe Straight Six in no Paint
'74 Scimitar GTE in Yellow
'71 Jaguar XJ6 in Blue
'76 Scimitar GTE
'87 Scimitar Turbo
Previous- '87 Scimitar SS1 Turbo, '75 Triumph Toledo, '86 VW Scirocco, '93 Scimitar Sabre, '85 Scimitar SS1, '76 Scimitar GTE, '71 Scimitar GTE
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never got on with hammerite and I think nowadays its far too expensive for what it is, it also has silicone in it meaning its usually tricky for other paints to stick to if ever you wanted to overpaint
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Any paint is only as good as the prep, so in that respect I totally dissagree with cobblers that you can't get a good finish. Black hammerite smooth, straight from the gun...  However, I agree that hammerite has got the rep for being the paint you slop over any old curse word and it will durable, which is utter boll@x, because you can't and it won't. |
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Last Edit: Feb 8, 2014 23:16:58 GMT by darrenh
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Use all the paints. Any paints. Technicolour paint by numbers. Colour coding is for squares. Here's a hammerite'd rocker cover for you... I can confirm it has chipped, But not affected by the heat. Are those all your SS1s in your sig?? |
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Back in the day, my mum painted her first car ( a mini) in silver hammerite with a brush as she didn't like it being yellow.. I can't imagine it looked too great rocker cover should be fine though I think it's things like this that make us evolve into petrolheads... |
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reliantreviver
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Feb 10, 2014 14:41:32 GMT
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Are those all your SS1s in your sig?? That would be circa 2010, and shows a small selection of those which I've owned. Just 3 at the moment though, with a previous "peak" of 12 - a bit greedy you might say! |
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Current:
Reliant "750" Super Robin, Scimitar SS1s - 2 x 1300, 1 x 1600, 1 x 1800ti. 76 years off the road between them!
Also - Mitsubishi Galant Sport and Hyundai Coupe Gen3
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rocker cover should be fine though
