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Flat Black Spray Paint in My Finish Kit

Flat black spray paint is one of the coating supplies in my purchases.

By Steven Smith · Camper Van Freedom

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Flat Black Spray Paint in My Finish Kit

My purchase and Amazon option

Flat black spray paint is one of the coating supplies in my purchases.

The featured Amazon option is Krylon COLORmaxx Flat Black Spray Paint.

Where it fits my build

I cut and drilled aluminum bracket pieces for the roof cameras and lights. The camera mounts needed additional holes and adjustments as I brought the assemblies together on the extrusion.

I sprayed the camera-mount pieces with black bedliner during the fabrication sequence. The coated brackets then formed part of the roof camera and light arrangements shown in the diary.

A black-coated bracket from my roof camera-mount work.
A black-coated bracket from my roof camera-mount work.
The camera mounting arrangement with its drilled attachments.
The camera mounting arrangement with its drilled attachments.

My build notes

The black finish was one stage within the mount fabrication. The holes and profile connections still determined where the pieces could sit, so the diary records the drilling and fitting alongside the coating.

The bracket shape, drilled holes and coating were separate parts of finishing the mount.

Alternative products

Two alternatives to compare

Krylon COLORmaxx provides a flat black finish, while the Rust-Oleum option is gloss black. The clear Krylon coating offers a transparent finishing layer rather than a black color coat.

Rust-Oleum Gloss Black Spray Paint

Rust-Oleum Gloss Black Spray Paint

This Rust-Oleum gloss-black paint comes in an aerosol can. The spray format provides a black coating without a separate paint cup and compressor-fed gun.

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Krylon Crystal Clear Acrylic Coating

Krylon Crystal Clear Acrylic Coating

This Krylon aerosol applies a clear acrylic finish. The eleven-ounce can provides a spray-coating format for surface finishing.

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Questions from my build

What coating did I record using on the camera brackets?

Black aerosol bedliner.

What happened before coating?

Cutting, drilling and fitting the aluminum mounting pieces.

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