looking for a hard wearing paint for footrests

[MikeM]

in the end i went for wilkos paint plastikote

will post up results tonight and show the difference

they look ok  and paint seems quite tough once its set hard

[matthewmosse]

Hammerite has I am sure been health and safetied to the point where I have gone off using it. Personally I have taken to using blackfriar red oxide and then satin black, seems to have stuck to my bmw frame better than the hammerite I used of a few other bits and bobs, and is less than half the price from my local stockist. Thinners for either hammerite or the other stuff I use lidl cellulose stuff as it's cheap and cleans the brushes well enough, I've used it to thin smootherite for spraying too. I also have had smootherite react with itself between coats - annoyingly it was when I'd invested in the proper thinner too. The old finnigans hammerite was far better 20years ago, I used up all the odd ends of that in about 6 different coulours on my trailer a few years ago, the oldest paint has stood up better than the newer - all hammerite brand, applied on the same day, just bought across a 20 year timespan.

[Green1]

I don't use Hammerite anymore I now use Rustoleum much nicer to use if you can put it I an oven even better.I painted the wheels on my dads Triumph Trophy in white Plastikote and it lasted about 5 years I used a chemical etch called ESP first because Iv used it for years and its brilliant.

Mick