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Degrease & Paint Frames

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DIY Metal Cube Shelves | No welding

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What happens here

Before painting, the creator emphasizes the importance of degreasing the metal frames to prevent paint peeling or crinkling. He suggests using rubbing alcohol or acetone with a rag to clean the entire surface. After cleaning, he applies a satin white paint and primer specifically designed for metal, stressing the use of light coats to avoid drips and runs. He allows adequate drying time between coats and before proceeding to the next step.

Goal: The metal frames are thoroughly degreased to ensure proper paint adhesion, then primed and painted with light, even coats in a well-ventilated area to prevent runs.

Tools and materials

  • Clean rag
  • Cleaned metal cube frames
  • Gloves
  • Respirator/Mask
  • Rubbing alcohol or Acetone
  • Satin white paint and primer
  • Sawhorses or stand

What they say

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gotta need to degrease this mostly because this is metal soon as you're gonna put some paint on it you're not gonna have a good adhesion sometimes it even crinkles up a little bit the paint so just do the right way you can use rubbing alcohol if you have it around the house if not I like to use acetone I think it works a lot better just use a rag and clean it all up you'll be surprised how dirty the rag gets and then once that's all nice and clean I'm going to use like a painted primer specifically meant for metal this is a satin white and the trick is gonna be to go light on the coats or also you're gonna start getting a run so if your first one or two coats should be your lightest and then after that hop on them [Music] when I see a magic trick watch this now let's see if we can get em painted even quicker hey saving time I'm gonna let all this stuff dry and then let's get start working on the actual wood I've come go in the shell I need a head piece of oak

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