Advice on thinning antifouling

Tam Lin

Tam Lin

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I have just applied a coat of XM Cruiser CX200 antifouling and have enough in the tin for about three quarters of a second coat. If I thin it I might get the whole boat covered. It says on the tin to use XM Thinners. Does anyone know if this is just white spirit in a different container? I certainly have my suspicions about International Thinners number 1 - seems a lot like white spirit. Any advice would be appreciated and save me the hassle of sourcing more XM antifouling or thinners. Thanks.
 
Thinners number 1 is white spirit or similar. Most antifouling requires thinner No 3 which is not the same thing.
 
Just checked on the tin. It just says XM thinners, no number. I used white spirit to clean up and that worked. Will spend some time on Google later in the evening - just wondered if anyone on the forum had direct experience and could advise me.
 
I just went round with a second coat of AF and did it in 2/3rds of the volume of the first coat. I think you will find the second coat goes much further than the first - well it did for me - not that I'm using XM stuff.
 
Tam Lin said:
I have just applied a coat of XM Cruiser CX200 antifouling and have enough in the tin for about three quarters of a second coat. If I thin it I might get the whole boat covered. It says on the tin to use XM Thinners. Does anyone know if this is just white spirit in a different container? I certainly have my suspicions about International Thinners number 1 - seems a lot like white spirit. Any advice would be appreciated and save me the hassle of sourcing more XM antifouling or thinners. Thanks.
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the 2nd coat uses less to cover. you are actually adding "thickness" of material, not the number of coats
 
Agree with other posts, and don't thin it !

Do your waterline and bow area first, keel next, rudder then whats left do the rest, that way most of the important parts get 'double coating' but as said you will probably have enough anyhow.

Happy Painting
Mike
 
Thanks to everyone who said not to worry. You were right, there was enough paint left to do the whole of the boat again! It spread much further the second time (and I was working hard at making it spread) and I reckon I used 2/3 of the tin on the first coat and 1/3 on the second one. Once again, good advice from the forum.
 
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