Morning folks: Hope you are all well and gearing up for the holidays. This question pertains to your favorite brand of stove paint. My Ideal Steel is currently coated with a lesser-known brand of high temp paint and it has proven to be a major disappointment. I used to paint houses in days gone by and am quite familiar with proper prep....With the stove surface temp at 75 and air temp at 80, most of the stove was sanded to bare metal, wiped with denatured alcohol, coated with high temp primer (same band as the finish coat) and the dang stuff is chipping off like crazy. It looks like crud and we ant to change the color of the stove. The color we want is made by Stove Bright...does anyone have experience with this brand, or have you had good results with another brand? Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.
High Temperature Paint This is Thurmalox brand. Bites like iron. I have never used it in aerosol form, just applied with a Binks gun. This was years ago so I’m not sure if they changed anything. Some others I have tried curled up and fell in the floor after the first hot test.
Stove Bright is good stuff. Many manufacturers use it on their stoves as well as stovepipe manufacturers. I use it almost everyday and always have good results.
I had trouble with the Stove Bright (metallic black) that I used on my Drolet 1400i lifting after it dried...and it was wiped with alcohol first too...the stove shop I bought the paint at said to wipe it down with Windex first...never heard that one before I've had good luck with plain ole Rustoleum high temp paint...both in the spray and the brush-on. With the spray they make BBQ Black, which is a flat black, and then just a plain Black, which is more of a gloss...I like to do the main body in BBQ black, then the door in Black...gives it a nice understated "tu-tone" effect. With the brush-on I like to roll it on with a small 3" foam roller...leaves a cool looking "dimpled" finish...
With stove bright it’s important to first spray at something you don’t care about before painting the stove, the clear catalyst comes out first. Perhaps you had some catalyst hit the stove before the paint? I’ve painted dozens of stoves and countless pieces of pipe with it and never had a problem. Like I said, almost everyday.
Stove Brite is good but I actually prefer aw Perkins paint now. It just seems to pay down better and last longer
I've used the Thurmalox brand spray paint...it was OK, wasn't anything special IMO though...especially for the price. Like you said though...many paints were "better" back in the day...
