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I need to know where I can get a paint color mixed and put into an arersol spray can for future use. Does anyone know a place that can do it .....and the approx cost per can. Point me in the right direction gang.

Your paint supplier should be able to do this.

You can also get reusable paint sprayers that have a glass bottle that has a replaceable gas cartridge that screws on top of it. You'll have to mix the paint yourself with the recommended parts of reducer and hardenner, but these work a lot better than the typical aerosol can sprayer. Comes out a lot more even with less splatter.

Your paint store should have these too. And it's cheaper than having them put your custom paint in spray cans for you.

These spray units are made by a company named Preval. I have the P/N for what they call the power unit (gas cylinder) 268-1 but I see no P/N on the glass jar container. http://www.prevalspraygun.com/
I have seen them at Home Depot/Lowes and you may find them in parts houses perhaps.

The links give were good to answer your question so I'll chime in with this----

On a different note I would like to recommend that you consider purchasing an air brush, which is basically a small capacity spray gun.

They clean up very easily as they are typically siphon feed. Cost is cheap and they will do as decent or better job than a spray can.

An air brush will save you considerable money over the years because you purchase paint in quantity, i.e. pints or quarts, and you basically save the cost of the propellent used in spray cans.

Air brushes can be used with conventional compressors or small compressors, or even cans of propellent although at great loss of savings.

Just presenting you with another choice.

With my Paasche air brush I figure it would take weeks to paint my truck. Great idea but am I missing something here.

I have an air brush kit laying around somewhere. That approach never crossed my mine. Olblu49, I was just looking for some way to hang onto some paint for later touch up under hood etc etc without having to buy more paint or go to body shop. Thanks for all the input gang.

i would use an airbrush, that is a good idea. i have used my small model building airbrush to fix rock chips before, takes a while to fill the chip but it works fine.

I'll chime in with additional---

My first air brush was a "Badger" brand and quite inexpensive, but still did quite acceptable work. I recently aquired another air brush and it has a much finer (lower volume) tip than the previous one.

It would take a long time to spray any volume with the latter, but it would be great for fogging, models, and chip filling. Perhaps great for spraying the dash or painting around a masked off windshield gasket. The "Badger" would be better for any larger object.