painting speaker cabs--- Rock n Roll Black!

[Arnot]

Hey,

 

Iam re-doing some cabs for a mate of mine and am looking for a good place to get hold of some good sturdy rock n roll black paint suitable for painting them up?

 

Any one help.

 

Noooooooo......not albany black matt emulsion

 

Thanks

Just as a matter if interest, I saw some cabs that had been rollered with black emulsion, then splattered with it and then rollered with diamondglaze floor varnish. The effect was pretty good and seemed quite tough.

 

The problem with the commercial finishes (which I use) is that they are solvent based and unless the ventilation is good, you could easily reach the 7 - 21% fume concentration that is explosive. Not that I am an H&S gestapo man, it's just that I have seen a friend of mine badly burned and his shed destroyed doing this sort of thing. The solvents are strongly aromatic and it is not possible to detect the concentration by nose.

 

In his case, the solvent was applied early one morning and the shed doors closed. At lunchtime, when it had warmed up to above the flash point of the solvent, he opened the door and went in. No-one knows just what happened then but the result was that the shed disintegrated and he ended up in hospital for a few weeks with first degree burns. When the debris was examined, almost everything in the shed had warning labels on (including the tippex and nail varnish used for sealing screws), I suspect that now almost everything you purchase has warning labels on, people tend not to read them and they have become devalued.

 

Take a tip, dont use VOC based paints in other than very small quantities unless you have very good fume control.

 

Regards

 

Arnot

[Furryface]

I am fairly certain that like most European manufacturers Turbosound use an eco friendly, water based paint by a German company called Warnex. Its not as hard wearing as cellulose based paint but it does have the advantages that it is much, much safer, kinder to the environment and the human respiratory tract and nervous system. In the absence of a fully ventilated spray shop the soft rag roller option is the quickest, simplest and most effective.

 

If you are looking for black paint for touch up Trimite is easily available, hardwearing and easy to use (coming in an aerosol spray can) but not suitable for doing whole cabinets.

 

Furry

[Andykos]

Aldcroft in the UK manufacture a good range of speaker paints, a quick search on google:

 

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q...paint&meta=

 

will find you a paint manufactured by Aldcroft called 'Tuff Cab' - it does the job nicely!

[Yorkie]

Link to Aldcroft Tuff Cab here

[cfsmith]

The best ever coating you could ever ask for to protect your equipment & speaker boxes is LINE-X Protective coatings, Its a polyurea spray-on coating thats waterproof, durable & extremely tough, so tough in fact that its used to coat the walls of government buildings around the world to stop them fragmenting when hit by a bomb blast :) , also its used amongst other things as a Spray-on Truck Bed Liner & ITS TOUCH DRY IN 3 TO 5 SECONDS SO THEY CAN COAT YOUR ITEMS WHILE YOU WAIT :) .

 

And for the environmentally friendly it contains no CFCs, VOCs or Solvents & has very little aroma.

 

UNBELIEVABLE

 

Visit my local dealers web site here in the UK for more info or if your in another part of the world visit the American site here.

[paulears]

The next time I need a tough finish I am going to contact a local company who specialise in fibreglass. They were repairing a fibreglass kiddies dodgem circuit with what appeared to be coloured fibre glass resin, with some kind texture - maybe fibreglass bits? The result was a coloured tough textured finish that would be really good on cabs

[zac coupe]

I can recommend Aldcrofts Tuff Cab. I use it on all my cabs. It gives a great, hard, tough protective finish. Its easy to apply and one tub goes a long way even when you are rolling it on thick. Another benefit is if you get up on a sunny morning and start painting at 10am by about 12:30 you can have put about 4 good coats on. 3 coats is enough to finish a speaker or if you apply it uber thick then 2 coats. Its also relatively good value for money at about £21 a tub. It might work out cheaper to by it from Blue Aran rather than Aldcrofts as I believe Blue Aran are cheaper on postage.

Over and out.

Cheers

Zac

[bruce]

I needed some cabinet paint in a hurry, and nobody local stocked anything that looked suitable.

 

Then I found some "non-slip step paint" by a company called (I think) "151 coatings" in a local "pound shop" - £1 for a 250ml tin. It was a satin-black paint, with a very "gritty" texture - it felt like it had sand mixed through it. It dried quickly, was very hard-wearing, and looked great!

 

I wish I had bought some more...

[Slurwood]

Hi all

 

Does anyone know where I can buy Warnex paint by Warnecke & Bohm, ive been searching the net but cant find there website im new to this industry and have got 4 F1 F218 which need repainting in black any help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

 

:unsure: Two very similar topics merged.

 

 

Thomman.