Posted on 07/17/2020 12:17:28 PM PDT by fightin kentuckian
Wagner power roller?
I believe there are self-feeding paint rollers for painting walls. Basically a pump with a tube to a roller.
You could use the largest nap roller you could find and dial up the flow to 11 and you might get good results on pavement.
But getting a machine large enough to hold enough paint to not require refilling would be the problem.
There are also line painting machines used for parking lots and football fields. These spray and they can move pretty fast if you up the flow. The ones I used had a big pressure pot that must have held 5-10 gallons but were heavy enough that they were self-propelled.
Just some ideas off the top of my head.
BTW, if rain’s predicted, latex might not be the best choice. I’m not sure what is used for parking lots, but if you can use a hardening additive for enamel, it won’t easily wash off with solvent. Or use some sort of catalyzed paint.
Be certain you don’t do anything that could get someone hurt.
In college we made water balloon slinghots using multiple strands of surgical rubber tubing that were good for 80 yards easy. Needed five guys, two at each end and one to pull and fire. Not that anyone would do that nowadays, they’d deservedly get arrested! ;)
Spray paint?
Check with your local tool rental outlets. They can probably rent you one for a reasonable amount. They’re called striping machines or line stripers. People rent them to put lines in parking lots, things like that.
Search for airless power painters and the tips that can be used for narrow or wide application of the paint. They need electricity so you may need a generator to power it.
These would run about 1K and then the paint, which needs to be UV resistant if you are applying it to a road.
Try and find some “marking’ paint that sprays out of inverted cans. There is a wheeled device that holds a can. Two people can paint different sections and be done in 90 seconds.
I do not encourage vandalizing public or private property. This is not a game.
Airmarking truck
Nearly every decent equipment rental place has the line spraying machines. If you are planning on doing this clandestine the police will go to the equipment place and your records will be there = have fun in jail.
Easy to figure how much paint you need. Figure sq footage= width x length. The paint store can then tell you how much paint you need.
Roller. Long handle that can reach the ground if you held it while in the back of a pickup truck, sober driver who can drive straight and understand when you need to reload the roller....
Or, 300 feet of stickyback canvas used for billboards.
If this is a protest, I would question renting or buying new equipment that could be tracked down by credit card records or security cameras.
Since durability and accuracy isn’t an issue maybe just an air compressor with a plain paint sprayer, thin paint, but test it on a color similar to the pavement. Will look fuzzy up close but from a distance it’d be good enough for government work..
Go to nearest Home Depot, hire illegals from the parking lot... They paint cheap.
/s
Snap a damn chalk line
If the authorities find out you post here, they’ll crucify you. However, if I was going to engage in this risky activity, I would use an airless sprayer, something like the Krause & Becker unit from Harbor Freight ($219.99), and a small generator, around 1000 watts, and a 5 gallon bucket of paint.
It would be applied by someone laying in the bed of a pickup hanging over the tailgate and spraying straight down as the driver motored on.
But, I’d never do anything like that myself. :-)
How about those machines they paint football fields with. maybe you could rent one.
And Campbell hader is your friend
I think blue paint filled balloons thrown on local liberal known to hate police houses would be more fun. More personal.
Do it at 3 am in black clothes and park a long way out so no cameras catch you.
not paint lime or ustah be
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