magnetic paint?

[kellikans]

has anyone used the Rustoleum magnetic paint?  we're painting our kitchen cabinets and on the inside of one I painted 2 thin coats of the magnetic paint.  yeah... it is so not magnetic AT ALL.  has anyone used it before?  did it work for you?  am I doing it wrong?

[TBM]

I thought about using it but never got around to buying it. I did read up on it though, and everyone says that:

You have to stir it really well, and often.
You have to put it on in thin coats.
It takes more than a couple of coats. The more coats, the better.

[ssmjlm]

What TBM said. I want to do a magnet chalkboard for our kitchen in a frame, but after reading a few blogs found it was easier to get a piece of metal cut and just paint chalkboard paint over that.

[new2this2]

I've used it. Did you mix it up really well? I had to get it professionally mixed at the store AND mix it for 20 minutes. It was watery on top and all the magnetic part was at the bottom. I think I did about 6 thin coats. It worked great. It wasn't SUPER magnetic but it worked for all the magnets I tried.

[kellikans]

DH mixed it up for me and was able to get all of the sludgey magnetic stuff off the bottom. I think I'm going to give up and just put a cork board in there instead to hold up notes/papers. if I have to do a million coats it's going to slow me down on actually painting the cabinets and being done with it.