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<blockquote data-quote="Art Welter" data-source="post: 51259" data-attributes="member: 52">Re: Spray system for painting cabs/ casesI have had good results with Home Depot&#039;s Behr paint, &quot;Beluga&quot; is their all lamp black color.Duratex is better, but the cost went up on the last gallon I bought, $52.50 plus $19.09 S&amp;H. Duratex sticks well to other latex paint, so I have used cheaper paints for the first coat.I could not get the last spray gun I bought to work for more than a few minutes without clogging using latex, so I have been using pad brushes for the initial coat and a little texture roller from Duratex for the finish coats. Looks good, and for the amount of painting I generally do at once, saves time over getting a spray gun set up properly, and then cleaning it. The texture roller is almost as fast as laying down a swath of paint with a spray gun, and a lot faster than spray cans.Painting black cabinets without really good light is a bad idea.The photo below shows my first attempt with Duratex, and a roller, later attempts (like any skill) were better looking. You can see a few spots I hit with a spray can after finding I missed some spots that the sun showed to be wood color .The Rustoleum Satin Black spray paint matches semi gloss Beluga perfectly, but not Duratex black :^(.Art</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Art Welter, post: 51259, member: 52"] Re: Spray system for painting cabs/ cases I have had good results with Home Depot's Behr paint, "Beluga" is their all lamp black color. Duratex is better, but the cost went up on the last gallon I bought, $52.50 plus $19.09 S&H. Duratex sticks well to other latex paint, so I have used cheaper paints for the first coat. I could not get the last spray gun I bought to work for more than a few minutes without clogging using latex, so I have been using pad brushes for the initial coat and a little texture roller from Duratex for the finish coats. Looks good, and for the amount of painting I generally do at once, saves time over getting a spray gun set up properly, and then cleaning it. The texture roller is almost as fast as laying down a swath of paint with a spray gun, and a lot faster than spray cans. Painting black cabinets without really good light is a bad idea. The photo below shows my first attempt with Duratex, and a roller, later attempts (like any skill) were better looking. You can see a few spots I hit with a spray can after finding I missed some spots that the sun showed to be wood color . The Rustoleum Satin Black spray paint matches semi gloss Beluga perfectly, but not Duratex black :^(. Art [/QUOTE]

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