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Bertram31.com General Bulletin Board
New epoxy bilge paint review
Posted By: Bruce
Date: Sunday, 15 January 2006, at 4:58 p.m.
On the 28 I'm repowering, the owner decided he wanted the engine room and bilge painted which I hate to do because of the lousy results I have gotten, plus with the new beds I redid and glassed over with epoxy, anything other than epoxy would have required priming which was double the work.
1 part epoxy paints suck. Period.
I went to the local MAB dealer and after some inquiry and educating him on the difference between poly and epoxy, he brought me out Ply-Tile Epoxy 1:1 Mix that could be tinted to just about any color.
They were in 1 gallon cans which would allow me to mix as much or little as I needed unlike some of the poly paints which are 3/4 gallon paint 1 quart hardner and have to be mixed all at once which wastes extra paint.
Like any paint job, prep is key and after spending hours preping, applied the paint and was really impressed with its coverage, application and dry to the touch in 2 to 4 hours, cured hard in 24.
It beat the 31 last month that was delivered with the bilge awlgrip'd and after steping all over it installing the engines, it looked like crap and would have to be repainted again.
MAB lists this paint for fiberglass and it looks to be a really good product.
Best of all it cost me 80 bucks. Not bad for two gallons of paint.
bruce
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