Rust-Oleum 223081 Magnetic Primer
by Rust-Oleum
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Rust-Oleum 223081 Magnetic Primer
Customer Review: Works, but heed this advice..
Summary: 3 Stars
This product works okay but as others have said it is going to take 5-6 thin coats to get any semblance of a usable magnetic surface. Even then the surface is very weak compared to the side of your fridge. We are going to use it as a message center so it needs to be able to hold up single sheets of paper, coupons, etc (I'm guessing that is what most of us are gunning for right?) If this is your goal I'd recommend investing in some rare earth magnets. You can find them online at that well-known auction site or at a variety of other online stores. I bought a lot of 50 1/4" cylinders and they work much better than standard magnets. You can hold up several sheets of paper with just 1-2 of these so they are worth the $15 I paid.
For reference the quart size can covered a 4' x 4' area with 7 rolled-on coats. Your mileage may vary...
Customer Review: it DOES work.
Summary: 4 Stars
This product is so cool! I'm sorry to see other had no success. I first mixed BY HAND the quart for 15 minutes. I didn't see the recommendation to have it shaken by the electric shaker. DO THIS it will save tons of time! I wanted to just do a small rectangle on my wall but decided to go all out and i covered an 8x10' wall in it. Let me say I used a paint roller and NOT a brush. the can recommends a foam brush for even coating. one quart did about three coats. YOU MUST WAIT 30 minutes between coats. I have YET to paint over it with my topcoat, but I already have tried it out with regular old fridge magnets and i have photos hanging. The magnets seem secure and stick well. You probably can't hang anything heavier than a pizza menu, but I'm mainly hanging paper. It's not perfect, but it's a pretty neat item!!Customer Review: IT DOES WORK- JUST USE THE RIGHT MAGNETS!
Summary: 4 Stars
This product does work, though not as great as I would have liked. I used it underneath dry erase paint (see my dry erase paint review) so the kids could have a magnetic dry erase board. Sadly, their alphabet magnets did not work. Actually no heavy magnets worked. I painted about 3 or 4 coats, and maybe if I painted more coats it might have worked better for heavier magnets....
However, I found printable magnetic sheets on Amazon, which work great! I used a bunch of my kid's favorite tv show characters clip art and made some colored alphabets in Microsoft Word. I printed them out, lamintated the tops (so if the kids write on them I can easily wipe them off), and now they have a TON of magnets that work great to play with! (These magnets will not hold up paper.)
Customer Review: Requires MANY coats for magnetic capability
Summary: 2 Stars
Wish I had read the other review before purchasing and spending 2 days on a small project for my daughter. We have a stainless steel fridge so I wanted to make her toy box & the lower half of her door magnetic in order to hold some magnetic alphabet letters she received for Christmas. It took 5 coats of primer for the letters to stick - & let me add that they BARELY stay on. The primer is black, not grey as the box may lead on. It took another 3 coats of paint to cover the "primer." I should mention - I did NOT have the can of primer shaken at a paint store, which I would highly, highly recommend doing. All in all, a neat idea, but quite time consuming - would be much easier to get a magnetic board & hang somewhere.Customer Review: Get the new stuff
Summary: 3 Stars
After reading the reviews and following the directions ie getting the can shook right before using and constant stirring, it wouldn't hold up a child's magnetic letter. I came across at a local home improvement store the same primer with it marked "now 3 times stronger". This stuff is truly different. Just stirring you can tell it has a lot more metal in the primer. After 3 coats with this and covering with 2 coats of chalk board paint it held up small refrigerator magnets. Don't expect it to hold up large magnets like clip magnets it doesn't. It will hold up 5 sheets of paper with an ordinary magnet.
With the above being said don't get the old formula get the "3 times stronger".