High temperature black spray paint that actually works?

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nickn

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I spray painted some aluminum foil with high temp paint made for grills and let it cure for a week or two but when I get it close to my 1000w light it starts to smoke.

Is there a brand of spray paint that is really and truly high temperature?
 
A 1k light will probably make the FOIL smoke... ever look inside a Leko with a gobo in it and see how red-hot they get?

You'd probably spend the same $$ on a roll of blackwrap that you'd spend on testing spray paints and buying foil. Might want to just try the real thing?
 
Yeah I'm planning on getting some black wrap but I was just wondering if a spray paint alternative exists.

The lights don't make raw foil smoke, BTW. And if they did then cinefoil would be just as useless.
 
The smoking will usually stop after a few minutes. New lights often need to be broken in by running them outdoors for a while to get all the volatile stuff in the paint to burn off. However, for an expendable like foil, where you're not going to re-use it and can't rig it outdoors to burn it in and then break it down again, the damage and annoyance can be done long before the paint stops smoking. So buy some real Cinefoil and be done with it. You can get a good sized roll for the price of three or four cans of spray paint.

I do use the barbecue paint on stuff like flags that I will be keeping for awhile, and it does its job OK after the short initial break-in period.

- Greg
 
nickn said:
Yeah I'm planning on getting some black wrap but I was just wondering if a spray paint alternative exists.
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There isn't going to be any paint you can buy, high temp or not, that will work on foil like real blackwrap. The real deal is probably done with a baked on coating, like powder coat, which is a lot tougher than a normal paint.
 
Greg Smith said:
The smoking will usually stop after a few minutes. New lights often need to be broken in by running them outdoors for a while to get all the volatile stuff in the paint to burn off. However, for an expendable like foil, where you're not going to re-use it and can't rig it outdoors to burn it in and then break it down again, the damage and annoyance can be done long before the paint stops smoking. So buy some real Cinefoil and be done with it. You can get a good sized roll for the price of three or four cans of spray paint.

I do use the barbecue paint on stuff like flags that I will be keeping for awhile, and it does its job OK after the short initial break-in period.

- Greg
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I was making a snoot out of thicker pieces of aluminum which I wouldn't just throw out, so it would be great to have paint that works. I'll try burning it in and see if the amount of smoke it makes is really a show stopper.
 
It's the aluminum. You can't paint that stuff. That's why it's anodized or powder coated.

It just is what it is. You'd have better luck with steel.
 
FWIW, aluminum holds some paints really well, but not enamels. If you prime with zinc chromate and use any lacquor over that, it will hold quite well. Now that combination won't be good for extreme temp, but for say a matte black, it will work great.

Grant
 
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