It may seem strange that up to six coats of magnetic primer are recommended, but in order to get enough attraction, the thickness of the iron dust particles must be maximized. After all, you may have to settle for just one coat of standard paint, so if the gray seeps through it should look natural. If you have small children around the home, then you might want to pass on magnetic paint entirely as the magnets can be choking hazards.
This means that if you decide to use the paint, pick an area of the home outside of their bedrooms. Plus, only use magnets where they cannot reach them. Just keep in mind that the magnets may fall off from time to time.
Since these paints are not actually magnets, they cause no harm to people, pets, or your electronics like TV or computers. Yes, DIY magnetic paint can be made at home but you will need to get the right additives that can help turn the ordinary primer paint oil-based, latex, or chalkboard paint into magnetic.
You will just need to add these dry powder-based additives into the paint container and stir it well for about thirty to forty seconds. When preparing the magnetic paint make sure you do all the mixing in a large size container as additives when added and stirred will usually increase the volume of paint.
A gallon of magnetic paint made this way can cover an area of about to square feet when you put two coats. IMO, you should use the entire freshly mixed magnetic paint on the surface. Do not store them for future use as they will not be much effective afterward.
The good thing about these homemade magnetic paints is they can be removed easily from the walls by using the right paint remover liquids and gels.
Although there are different ways to make a magnetic wall like with sheet metals , using magnetic paint for walls is one of the easiest ones. When you apply enough paint or primer with magnetic properties, it can be used as a bulletin board or activity center for your older children. Just make sure you coat them with an additional thin layer of varnish shiny or matt , especially if the surface is to be touched frequently by children.
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Just in case you want to hire pro painters in your local area, you can click here. In terms of the finish, I can only assume that enamels hold up better to bumps and scrapes than acrylic paint does.
Someone once asked if enamels, by default, have a glossy finish to them. They do not, as long as you are using flat enamels, which seem to be the standard.
I use flats and they have an excellent, non-shiny finish. I feel like enamel colors are a little deeper too, on the whole, but I suppose it depends on the brand of acrylic you use. Vallejo seems to be a popular choice for acrylics. I use predominantly Model Masters Testors enamels. In general, I would just said to find a brand you like to work with and produces the results you like.
I am working on painting my game pieces and would love to see what you all have done. Especially naval, artillery and plane units. Register Login. Reply Reply as topic. This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it. C 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0. I bet you had a lot of pressure growing up, huh? Stress is one of the factors for early development of fine motor skills.
Yet, with every skill that is finely tuned… there is a neuronal pruning away of other possibilities. If a child correlates putting caps on markers with pleasing their parents… and pleasing their parents as a condition for receiving love… that would be a skill a child would develop very quickly.
Do you have enough love for yourself in order to risk the failure that comes with living creatively? My feeling and my reaction tells me that there is something deeper within my own Self that I need to look at.
I may not be objective… I just wanted to be honest about what I realized. If your kid is old enough use a crayon, etc. Yes, good point Karin! I mean so what if it creates some dust. Buy some pledge and vacuum once a week. I can recall always wanting to be the one called on in class as a young grade schooler to get to write on the chalkboard.
I loved it. I think kids hVefun with it. Completely agree. Chalk…no mess.. Cleaning other walls that the kids deside to draw on…. Not to mention the toxic smell of dry erase markers gives me a headache before my first word is written. Chalk is much cooler, in my opinion. Chalkboard dust I can handle. It is amazing. We have a 2 yr old and 4 yr old, they LOVE their wall. And dust is very hard to find unless they scrub the chalk on the wall.
Just thought I would share what I found. I feel like I went back in time to It has been studied and children learn how to write better on a surface with resistance. A markerboard does not provide that. So thats one reason. I have had a chalkboard in my basement for two years now.
I got it for free — so thats another reason. Painters tape comes on and off it without damage, very useful for a preschool teacher; reason three. Chalk and water are cheaper than markers and a special cleaner, and water is safer for the kids. We have used chalk bombs, chalk sponged, chalk spray; all made by the children with Dollar Store items. As far as residue, children create residue. I vacuum up after them and I run it under the chalkboard.
Never had a surplus of chalk dust all over everything. Those are somethings for you to consider instead of taking an indignant stance against people who like chalkboards. I could not do a quarter of the things I do with a markerboard and their fine motor coordination would suffer.
Hi, would the chalkboard paint work with acrylic? I need to paint a pane of glass, and want it to stick. Great Post!! Can anyone tell me if there is a magnetic paint that could be used as a white board as well with dry erase markers? Our space is limited it must serve many purposes. Any suggestions would be most helpful! I make and sell Magically Magnetic Paint additive. You mix this dry powder with white primer paint and paint at least two coats on any wall, three or four coats for greatest strength, and magnets will stick to the wall like it was made of steel.
Finish with a coat of your regular color finish paint with no additive and you are done. We also make and sell a material that is white, write and wipe on the front and sheet magnet on the back.
It will stick beautifully to the magnetic paint on the wall. You can use markers on this Write and Wipe Magna-Mount material as well as use it for a projector screen. When not in use, simply remove it from the wall, roll it up and store it in a mailing tube. I have been in business since and invented the first magnetic photo frames, which also stick beautifully to my magnetic paint on walls. Instead of paints we used self-adhesive films recently, we have 2 in 1, magnetic wall that you can write on and we were even able to print on them.
Looks cool. I just recently made my own chalkboard paint in orange and purple… it worked amazingly. I can claim that this recipe is tried, tested, and true! And good stuff about the magnetic paint.
This might be my favorite post so for! When you make your own chalkboard paint, do you use oil based or water based? Latex or no? Thank you!! Do you need to let the chalkboard paint dry for 3 days like the commercial stuff? I am currently on coat 12 or 13 of my magnetic paint project…I can get the magnet to actually stay on the board now. Just wondering how many coats it would take to get a strong magnetism in the paint. I am thinking 20 coats! Anybody tried it?? It should only take two coats to get magnets to stick.
Spray magnetic paint may take more. The most important thing is to stir the magnetic paint very throughly when you start to get the magnetic particles in the paint held in suspension in the paint and then stir it again every time you add more magnetic paint to your paint tray. The magnetic particles are heavier than the paint and will settle to the bottom. When you get a premixed magnetic paint, these heavy particles are all on the bottom of the can in a thick sludge.
You need to mix it by hand. My Magically Magnetic paint additive is a dry powder that mixes instantly with any white primer paint and stays white. It only takes five seconds to stir it up and you are ready to paint.
Some people prefer three coats and even four coats of magnetic paint, but it your are needing more than four, you are either doing something wrong or asking magnetic paint to do what only solid steel can do.
I think the key to getting a good bite out of the magnets is to be constantly stirring up the paint. The magnetism comes from metal filings in teh paint, and they really want to settle out. By having a helper constantly stir the paint, and only applying as much as you can before settlement, you may get better results. I got a good hold out of 2 coats of paint, but not a fantastic one. But really, the work, the mess, the cost, it has occurred to me that I should have just found a source for a good, strong magnetic board.
Next time. I literally just wrote on my things to do: return metal primer and purchase magnetic primer for chalkboard. After reading your site, I had to rewrite me to do list, which included going to the recyling plant to see if I could get a chunk of steel. Thank you so much for posting what you did — I can get super frustrated, and I know I would have flipped out for sure at putting on more than 3 coats!
Thanks so much :. Much of what you say is correct, but there is a lot more to know about magnetic paint than paint it on your wall and magnets will stick. First there are different brands of magnetic paint. Some are pre-mixed with primer paint and are difficult to stir up. They go on black or a very dark gray color.
I invented a dry magnetic paint additive that mixes with white primer. It mixes up easily in seconds and is fresh every time you use it. It goes on white and stays white on your wall. Because it stays white, it covers easily with one coat of any color finish paint.
Two coats of any magnetic paint is required to get any magnets to stick. Many people prefer three or even four coats for maximum magnetic attraction. Not all magnets will stick well to magnetic paint on a wall.
Cheap magnets and heavy magnets may actually fall right off. I had some plastic letters once that were made in china. They had small plastic magnets in the center of each letter.
They were so weak that they would not even stick to the steel door on my fridge. Magnetic paint only attracts magnets because it has millions of microscopic metal particles in the paint. It is these particles that attract magnets, not the paint. The paint only holds the particles on the wall.
The more coats of the magnetic paint you get on the wall, the stronger the magnetic attraction of the wall. In the pre-mixed brand, the metal particles are heavier than the paint and settle to the bottom of the can and sit there for months on the store shelf. The metal particles just stick to the bottom of the can in a thick packed mud. You need to scrape it off the can bottom with a screw driver and beat it into submission with a paint stick.
My Magically Magnetic Paint Additive mixes up instantly and easily in seconds every time. If you want a strong magnetic area to stick the magnets on you fridge door, the ones you have collected over the years on trips and in cereal boxes, get the steel panel like the article says and adhere it to your wall.
Nothing attracts magnets like solid steel. Magnetic paint is made to attract sheet magnets and rare earth magnets. Sheet magnets are the kind of magnets used to make magnetic business cards and magnetic signs for car doors. They stick well because the also have millions of tiny metal particles in them that have been magnetized.
Their strength is weak compared to a strong rare earth magnet but they are much larger and very light so they stick well to magnetic paint.
Sheet magnet is what is used for the magnetic poetry in the article. Sheet magnet comes in 15 mil, 20 mil, 30 mil and 60 mil thick. The thicker the magnet, the stronger the attraction. In summary, mix the magnetic paint well before you paint. Before every coat, mix it up again to keep the metallic particles in suspension in the paint. A regular fiber roller can allow the particles to get trapped in the spaces between the fibers.
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