I have tried lacquer based oven cured and rustoleum spray paints.
But the lacquer vapors gave me brain damage and the rustoeum peels off or wears off.
I am now using BROWNELLS - ALUMA-HYDE® II
ALUMA-HYDE® II | Brownells
I have had some problems with it, but Brownells has been very helpful and the stuff is cheap.
Brownells is like RCBS, they are TOO nice. I feel guilty after they help me more than I deserve.
To really do it right, I need 90 degree weather or direct sunshine. We don't get that for 9 months at a time in the Seattle area. So I made a paint box out of cardboard. I bought a 450 Watt heating plate at Goodwill for $5. They have lots of them. I put that on the bottom. I made a baffle out of cardboard so the hot air can convect up from the hot plate, but paint can't land on the hot plate. I put a meat thermometer in the top. I used a rubber band around two sheet rock screws for a door latch. I draped an old blanket over the box. It gets up to 90 degrees. I hang stocks and barrels from coat hanger wire through to top attached to sticks. When I rotate the sticks, the stocks and barrels rotate inside the box. I open the door and spray some paint in there. Then I close up the box and wait two hours for the paint to cure.
I call it that paint "one part spray epoxy", because after curing, the stuff his thick and hard. It may get dirty, but it is not going to wear off.
