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I've considered using the roller method on my 164. If I do decide to do it, I'll use the Interlux Brightside boat paint that most of the Roller guys are using now. It's supposed to be more durable and covers in fewer coats.
If you take your time and do things right you can get impressive results with this method. You basically thin down brushing enamel with mineral spirits to milk consistency and roll or brush it on in very,very thin coats. Since the paint is so thin it dries enough to sand in 24 hours. You keep adding more coats and sanding back with progressively finer grits until there is even coverage. You then wait a few weeks and buff it out to a mirror shine.
For every decent roller job you find on the web there are ten bad ones. In most cases the problem was not using thin enough coats. If the coat is too thick it never really dries well enough to sand and you end up with a big gummy mess. The rickwrench.com site has a good overview of the proper way to do a good roller paint job.
Here's a 245 painted with Rustoleum Sunburst Yellow using the roller method as posted on the moparts thread:
This guy did an excellent roller job on a corvair using Rustoleum:
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