Spray paint a habitrail?

I do not think regular spray paint will hold up very well. If you were going to do it yourself for the cheapest money, I would go with a sign paint enamel. It is more wear resistant than a rattle can of paint.

The paint will chip in no time and you'll end up with that crap all over the place

Even though sign paint is more durable, I still do not think it would last very long.

I have light sanded, primed, sprayed 3 coats with drying time, and several coats of Polyurethane.
5 years, no issues with Home use on a WCS

I saw my game 2 years ago...meaning 10 years, since I did, and the paint had worn on the bottom rails
where the boll rolls most.

So the paint did wear, and did go some where, but 10 years was pretty good.

A quality urethane in a couple days drying between layers, with a good primer....

$80 just for powder on a habit trail? That seems expensive. I think some places will do all the armor for $125

I had 4 BSD wireforms powdercoated fo $50.

If you get that habittrail powerdercoated it should be $25 bucks.

Talk to pinchroma here in the forum. I know he powder coats

You just want the habit trail done? It's a tspp or de Simpsons?

Don't do it. This will surely chip and flake over time.

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From his pictures I think Alex can hook you up.. Pinchroma

I hear lots of good things also about Mike Chestnut. Forum search says this is contact info

hpugto@gmail.com

Good luck with project.

Don't paint it

Mike only does plating. And he's a master at it. If he wants it brass or chrome mike is great.

I dont know if it was originally painted or a coating so I'm just wondering....would Plasti-Dip work? Thats the product you can use to dip the end of tool in for a plastic handle etc. It does come in spray also but not sure how uniform you would be able to get it. Just a thought....

That is horribly expensive. There is a place near me. I had 4 Marquee trims (arcade games) 2 Habit trails and 2 misc parts powder coated and it was $75 and I thought even that was expensive.

It's not. You guys have no idea what goes into powder coating That one habit trail done properly is about 2-3 hours worth of work and about 10 dollars in material. So $80 is about right assuming the place is chem dipping, properly blasting, acetone bath, etc.

Also most places don't do just a single small piece because firing up the oven costs a tremendous amount of money. I wouldn't do a single small piece because the second i start the oven to bring it to 400 degrees for one small piece i'm already in the red.

Anyone doing the work for "peanuts" I can assure you is skipping essential steps and taking shortcuts.

I stand corrected. Thanks for the info.