Expert advice

We are regularly asked why the weight of the contents of an aerosol can is not numerically equal to its volume. In other words, why the contents of a 520 ml can weigh less than 520 g. Does that mean the can is filled with less than it should be?

Plaster is a fairly common material, and questions about how to paint it properly from an aerosol can come up very often. There is nothing complicated about it, you only have to follow a few simple rules. This article covers aerosol paints for plaster items (figurines, statuettes, busts and so on), and helps to pick a matching primer and varnish.

This article is about aerosol primers only: water-based acrylic products applied with a brush or a roller are a different story.

Although both primers are called multipurpose, there are significant differences between them, both in the way they are applied and in what they are used for. Let us look at this in more detail.

When a surface is painted, primers do several jobs at once. Besides improving adhesion, they can build an anti-corrosion layer, neutralize rust and hide minor surface defects. By the order in which they are applied, primers are either primary or secondary. The right primer, or the right combination of primers, has to be chosen for each particular job, and that means knowing what each of them is for and how it behaves.

Do you like making things yourself? Would you like your Christmas tree to be decorated with ornaments no one else has? More than a hundred KUDO^® acrylic aerosol paints in a wide range of colors and effects are there to help. Create, experiment, try things out: with KUDO^® paints your imagination is the only limit. The details are in our videos.

In these videos we introduce the different types of paint and go step by step through the technique of painting DIY projects with aerosol paints.

Bonding a tile that has fallen off the wall back into place is not the easiest job. Remains of adhesive or mortar are left on both the wall and the tile, the surface is not particularly even, so the adhesive has to be one that works well on uneven surfaces and has excellent adhesion to a wide range of materials. Construction adhesives — “liquid nails” — are a good solution, but not all of them are equally good for this job.

Painting the plastic trim of a car interior with an aerosol has a few specifics. They concern the choice of materials and the surface preparation above all. Let us go through the process step by step.

When a surface is painted, primers do several jobs at once. Besides improving adhesion, they can build an anti-corrosion layer, neutralize rust and hide minor surface defects. By the order in which they are applied, primers are either primary or secondary. The right primer, or the right combination of primers, has to be chosen for each particular job, and that means knowing what each of them is for and how it behaves.

Spray painting plastic from an aerosol can has rules of its own. They concern the choice of materials and the surface preparation above all. Here is the job step by step.