Engine room spray paint in a can?

[No1_Moose]

I'm in the middle of painting the engine room. I painted the engines ages ago with nice Volvo green paint. Now I'm onto the grp itself. I've had a go at the accessible bits with danboline bilge paint and it looks pretty good. Now I've done the easy bits I'm onto the impossible bits. I've cleaned it all up with an acetone soaked rag on a stick but I can't reach to paint any of it. So does anybody know of a spray bilge paint because I can't seem to find any in the chandleries here. Oh and its got to be white.

And lastly, why did I start doing this?

 

[LeytonC]

what about the 'Rag ona stick'? that must reach by default?

 

[tcm]

if you can't reach it, it'll be a bit of a mess with a spray. Cos it will spray all about and need the can holding upright and be thin and shd be masked off, and need lots of cans and blah, imho. The spary paint isn't like a hosepipe cos once about 15" away the paint just sort of lands badly or dries in the air hence bitty and crap.

I would (did) get a paintbrush on a stick. Or a paintbrush on a much longer stick, with a bend in it. Also a roller or a small roller on a long stick is ok too, and poke about with all of these. But the danboline is quite good and if you can acetone on a stick to it you can get a roler or brush on a stick to it as well, blathered in paint. Yeah, it's be rubbish but not too rubbish as long as it is vaguley white it is ace.

Nother good trick is to get a realy strong light so you can see what your doing, then take the light away and it looks fab.

Easily the BEST suggestion is to do what i suggested to someone called "Moose" (any relation?) and get some other gullible mug to do the work instead

 

[Bandit]

Go to a DIY shop and buy radiator brushes ie a small brush on a long stick and small rollers on a long metal handle and bend the handle.

 

[No1_Moose]

Yes, excellent advice. I solved the long distance spray paint problem when I did the engines by using the little red tube you get with a wd40 can to launch paint great distances with devastating accuracy.

I accept the forum stupid award for not attaching a paint brush to the stick in the first place.

 

[No1_Moose]

Gullible mug I am not. I just happened to buy some paint to do the inside of my boat at home and ended up with loads left over. Still I'm down here for a week, and the boat is full of diesel so haha.

 

[Col]

What about a radiator roller??
Narrow roller on a long handle.

 

[No1_Moose]

tried that but it was a bit too fiddly

 

[Col]

Well if you're really stuck, if you give me some of the bilge paint I can get it put into spray cans, or come round with small spray gun & compressor.
Gissa ring if you need a hand. You should have my No;

 

[marcusgillies]

how about the new fangles paint brushes that have a foam head as aposed to bristles then tape to a stick, thats what we use

 

[No1_Moose]

Col---mug???? maybe

All done thanks, took a while though!