Painting kitchen scales (metal, already painted)

[username132]

My mum has some red metal scales that she would like to be green. Can I just paint over the top or is some preparation needed? Are there a number of different types of paint that could be used? Thanks!

 

[Tigercubrider]

Are they painted or powdercoated?

They probably need sanding down, a spray of primer, rubbed down, and a couple of coats of new paint.
Anything from Halfords would do

Ensure the internals are protected- loads of masking tape or they won't work

 

[username132]

Thanks! I don't know whether they're powder coated and won't be able to see them for a couple of months. Is sanding to take them back to bare metal or just to key the surface?

 

[Tigercubrider]

Just a key really, unless the paint is so thick that it covers details

It is probably paint - some paints do react so either test or prepare to do it again if you have to

 

[username132]

Maybe this is a stupid question but my mum is thinking of having a green paint made to match some of her kitchenware to use on the walls and I was wondering whether it would be possible to use this paint on the scales, maybe if an appropriate primer could allow a paint intended for a wall to be used?

 

[Tigercubrider]

I doubt it would be suitable but worth a try on some scrap and possibly a clear coat?

Some car paint specialists (not Halfords!) can match anything so you could paint a small bit of scrap wood and take it to them to match in the same way as the wall paint people . Paint often is coded with a RAL number that afaik should allow the paints to be matched

Hopefully somebody who knows more about wall paint or car paint will chime in

 

[Iamchamps]

Save the hassle and just buy the green version

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0...hen+scales&dpPl=1&dpID=41gI3I2rZQL&ref=plSrch

 

[Hot&Cold]

Save the hassle and just buy the green version

Got to be the best answer

 

[username132]

Got to be the best answer

I disagree. I'm not an interior designer but I think that a kitchen with 50 shades of green won't look as nice as everything (or at least as much as possible) using the exact same colour. Mum has started painting the scales, has already painted some wooden salt and pepper grinders and is going to paint a little box she keeps detergents and such in, all using paint which was colour-matched to some mugs she has which I have used to paint a nice border on the wall. I really don't understand why so many people on a DIY forum promote going for the laziest option of throwing money at a problem to buy something off-the-shelf which in this case buys a particularly inferior solution (yet another shade of green).

Incidentally, with a signature like "Why DIY when insured competent trades people are available ?.", I wonder what you're even doing on a DIY forum.

 

[Hot&Cold]

ffs