How to paint a speaker cabinet?

[spookstrickland]

What kind of paint would work best at painting over the vinyl covering on my Sunn Cabinet?  Don't worry it's not a good one.  I'm wanting to paint it Green or Red.

Thanks

[VOLVO)))]

Strip it, and roll this on...

http://www.grizzlygrip.com/colors.asp

[ROWDYBEER]

a lot of paint (at least spray paint) will specify that it will work well on vinyl etc. Thats what I would do if I were to lazy to strip the vinyl. 

[Chovie D]

bad idea.

If you insist, I heard one guy say he used truck bed liner paint and that worked well. i doubt that comes in green or red tho.
If you just dont give a shit, cheapest and easiest would be latex and accept that its gonna peel, chip and scrape easily.
Enamel will take a full week at decent temperature to dry properly.

again tho, just leave it alone, why ruin a vintage cab?

[VOLVO)))]

Check out my link, Eb. It comes in all kinds of colors from those guys.

[Chovie D]

Check out my link, Eb. It comes in all kinds of colors from those guys.

oops my bad, didnt click on your link. Yes that would be the shit to use if you must do it.

I wonder how expensive that stuf is? didnt see price list anywhere

[Jor el]

I kinda dig stuff that is functional, but looks beat to shit.

[VOLVO)))]

Check out my link, Eb. It comes in all kinds of colors from those guys.

oops my bad, didnt click on your link. Yes that would be the shit to use if you must do it.

I wonder how expensive that stuf is? didnt see price list anywhere

14 bucks a pint, 24 bucks a quart, 80 bucks a gallon. A quart does an entire 4x12 Marshall sized guitar cab with a fair amount left to spare.

[Chovie D]

*plus shipping....thats cheaper than tolex still, but even cheaper still is just leaving it be the way it is. but I guess then it wont be red or green

[VOLVO)))]

Easier to apply than tolex, too.

[spookstrickland]

That grizzly stuff looks good but I don't want to strip off the old vinyl because it's a Particle board cabinet.  If it were plywood I'd go all the way.  It's got kind of a smell too it and I figured the paint would seal the smell in.  I might just stuff it full of dry-Z and dryer sheets and see if that soaks up the smell.

I would like to paint it but it would have to be on the cheap I'm on a super tight budget.  Otherwise I'm going to just Rat Rod it out and use it that way.  It's really just a cab I bought to get beat around anyway so my good Sunn's can stay at home safe.


thanks

[Lumpy]

I kinda dig stuff that is functional, but looks beat to shit.

Me tooo.

[neighbor664]

Wouldn't an automotive vinyl stain work?

[VOLVO)))]

If it were white, it'd be a perfect option. Black will just mask any stain you throw at it.

[Lumpy]

For a quick and dirty job, regular latex paint will work. I bought a cab that has horrible black & white snakeskin tolex (Bill Fitzmaurice cab). Since I'm not in Whitesnake (yet) I painted it with black latex paint. It's been scratched in a few places but who cares. I still have touch-up paint if it ever gets really bad. Latex paint seems to adhere to tolex pretty well (no flaking or peeling).

[Chovie D]

from his last post, it appears he just wanted ot get rid of the smell. painting it is the long ass, expensive way to go about removing smell. wash the outside with lemon oil or some other smell removing cleanser, open up the back and tape a dryer sheet (bounce) to one of the walls, dont leave it loose in there, tape down the edges. smell ya later

[Lumpy]

They say painting over smells is bad -- odors still get out, but cleaners/deodorizers are prevented from getting in.

(How I know this - I moved into an apartment where the former tenant was evicted for having like 20 cats. When I viewed the apartment it smelled like fresh paint, but a few weeks later it smelled like cat piss. Fancy mail order deodorizer spray didn't do shit... in the instructions, it said to don't paint over the problem area)

Air it out/dryer sheet, maybe spray it with Febreeze. One of the down sides with buying used equipment -it can smell. If it really smells bad, leave it at your practice space or sell it. Or just live with it.

[spookstrickland]

Thanks guys those are all some good tips.  I opened it up cleaned out the old insulation inside and put in some dryer sheets that seems to have helped quite a bit.  I'm going to get some of that Kilz paint that is supposed to be really good at covering up stains, mildew and stuff like that and paint the inside and the front where there is no vinyl.  then I'm going to paint the front with some fluorescent green paint.  Then later if it still needs something I'm going to get some of that automotive seat cover paint and dye the rest of it red or green although being black already that might not work so great but I think they do have some kind of a paint version that covers better.

Should be pretty cool.  I'm going to put some kind of heavy duty grill on it to protect the speakers too and some casters.

thanks

[Volume]

Just throw some of these in there.

[nonoman]

Zinsser 123 is a bonding primer which is what you need to get latex to stick really well and its water based and doesn't reek like the kilz