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Subject: TWL: RE: Awlgrip paint - roll and tip method
From: David (david@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sun Nov 10 2002 - 22:14:30 EST
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Rich Gano
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 3:28 PM
To: Trawler World
Subject: TWL: Awlgrip paint - roll and tip method
Reply,
My wife and I painted Skooch top to bottom last summer. I started using the
roll and tip with Interlux two part Urethane. I found it worked well but was
too hard to do on the whole boat. I'd still be up there. I bought a
compressor and good spray gun and got decent results for a Boatyard job. the
other major advantage for me was that I could pick a weather window of 3-4
hours to put on a coat. With brush and tip I would have to have much more
time. I do not know where to stop and start when you get outside the weather
windows doing a whole hull.
The two part poly-urethanes need to dry before dew or rain get on them.
The tip part is the part you may be having trouble with. They don't mean to
brush it at all. Roll it on thinly, then just faintly use the very even tip
of a very good badger brush. The brush should never carry paint and you only
use the very tippy end. It also means a badger brush as large as you can
hold for 50 hours with the very tip of the brush absolutely level all the
way across. No little bristles hanging. Try that on a ladder or scaffold up
on the bow of the Grand Banks. They recommend one person roll while the
other tips. SO two are up there.
I tried a few paints and I have used Imron is a past life. The Interlux
flowed very well for me and was more readily available. I would try it over
Awlgrip as Awlgrip has always been difficult to spray and is used mostly by
those pros that spray it every day. Its great paint for Pros in a enclosed
paint room. The Interlux is formulated for us DIY-ers and is much more
forgiving. Might be worth $50 for a quart to try. You want to pick the one
that is the easiest 2 part/poly to use. It will be slightly less glossy due
to its ability to not sag. But you'll never notice unless you are going to
get a spray booth and do it as a pro. In two years they will both be the
same gloss anyway. Paints like that, the glossy have more gloss to loose.
BTW I did not count the hours this took the Admiral and I, neither of us are
good at record keeping. But we estimate 250 man hours for the hull, super
structure and fly bridge. Sand/fill/sand, primer/sand, topcoat/sand,
topcoat.
Skooch Hatteras 42 LRC
Worton Creek
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