Painting Cast Iron

[kevin nee]

I have some antique cast iron wish bone lathe legs. I took them to be sandblasted.
I plan to spray them with Rust-olium. I am going to prime them today. I was going
wipe them down with thinner and spray away. Does this sound like the way to go.
Thanks in advance, Kevin

[Jerome Stanek]

You could use stove paint on it

[David Weaver]

I have some antique cast iron wish bone lathe legs. I took them to be sandblasted.
I plan to spray them with Rust-olium. I am going to prime them today. I was going
wipe them down with thinner and spray away. Does this sound like the way to go.
Thanks in advance, Kevin

Sean hughto has a picture of a plane casting he painted with rustoleum and it looks pretty good.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?221767-Plane-Restoring-Paint-or-Japanning&p=2311106#post2311106

[Myk Rian]

Rust-o-leum is made to do just that.

[Erik Loza]

I have some antique cast iron wish bone lathe legs. I took them to be sandblasted.
I plan to spray them with Rust-olium. I am going to prime them today. I was going
wipe them down with thinner and spray away. Does this sound like the way to go.
Thanks in advance, Kevin

Sounds fine. You could also use a coat of self-etching primer if you really felt like it. I find that it gives a more uniform look when done but that's splitting hairs.

Erik Loza
Minimax USA

[Rich Enders]

If they are worth the investment how about powder coating, or even chrome..........?

[Frederick Skelly]

I have some antique cast iron wish bone lathe legs. I took them to be sandblasted.
I plan to spray them with Rust-olium. I am going to prime them today. I was going
wipe them down with thinner and spray away. Does this sound like the way to go.
Thanks in advance, Kevin

Ive done that a couple different times with cast iron. Worked fine. Held up a long time outside.

[Matt Meiser]

If you want, prime with the Rust-O-Leum primer but CI seems to be so "toothy" that the oil based paint sticks pretty darn good even without.

The "professional" stuff dries a lot quicker than the original formula.

[Dave Lehnert]

I like the look of Hammered paint.
http://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalog/consumer-brands/universal/universal-hammered-spray-paint