Aldi Metal Paint This Thursday

[pedrobedro]

I know there is often a friendly argument between the split camps about Aldi stuff, I buy it all the time and never had a problem yet...in fact I was using my 2 year old £9.99 angle grinder today ..thinking what a terrific machine it had been and the awesome amount of work it has done..and it's still got a years guarantee left on it.

I have 2 Aldi angle grinders, an electric DA sander, hot melt glue gun, an air stapler and an air impact wrench. I use their paint for a lot of garden and general stuff and I also buy clothes from them when they have what I want. We do buy food there as well but that's just incidental. My wife bought a guillotine for paper and a photo printer they had on offer as well and no problems.

 

[cumbriasteve]

Well thats 2 coats on a gate and am impressed, it's not the easiest to get on without brush marks but covers good and leaves a very hard gloss finish.

I was previously using various enamels and it took them an age to harden off and still easily scratched, the Aldi stuff seems as hard as steel... so at £3.99 a tin...bargain

 

[Ianclapham]

2 black, 2 white and 2 silver for me today, will use the black for my rollcage on the autograss car when its done.
cheers for letting us know about the paint.

 

[cumbriasteve]

2 black, 2 white and 2 silver for me today, will use the black for my rollcage on the autograss car when its done.
cheers for letting us know about the paint.

You are welcome, like most paints it goes on a tubular shape really nice,,the round bar in the gate looks like I have sprayed it on.

 

[rambo]

Went in today, only white left, but I did get 2.5 ltres of dessert sand, just tried it on my landy and no reaction(yet).
Looks like the landies gonna get painted with ALDI paint!!
Bought the hammer drill as well.

 

[steveo3002]

just got a couple of tins luckily they had some left

its good stuff for the price , as good as anything else you can buy in the shops

 

[rikrobson]

got the last two silver tins in my local store. plenty of white left, but no black

 

[bighitgeoff]

Has anyone tried spraying it? What thinners would you mix it with?

 

[steveo3002]

mixes with celly thinners , sprays nice enough no complaints and dries quick

try 15-20% thinners and see how it goes

 

[eil]

It says on the tin, to thin with max 3% synthetic thinners.

 

[bighitgeoff]

On the tin it doesn't mention spraying. I thought someone would have tried.

 

[pedrobedro]

I've thinned it with white spirit or cheap cellulose thinner that I use for primer. I have synthetic primer for acrylic but I never tried it with that as it is dearer

 

[bighitgeoff]

But did you spray with it Pedro?

 

[steveo3002]

it sprays fine with celly thinners , ive used it , no problems or complaints at all

 

[bighitgeoff]

Thanks for that. I'll give it a try when I can get some cellulose thinners.