gloopy antifoul?

[Spyro]

Bought some cheep xm2000 stuff on ebay . It looked like this. I thinded it a bit and it went on ok. Is this how it normally is?

 

[tidclacy]

Was this after you stirred it really well? Most anti foul manufacturers do not recommend thinning

 

[BruceDanforth]

I've used it a couple of times without thinning and it just needs a good stir.

 

[Heckler]

Bought some cheep xm2000 stuff on ebay . It looked like this. I thinded it a bit and it went on ok. Is this how it normally is?

I bought the same, thought sh it! But SWMBO perservered with a small roller. Stirring it makes it runny! Did a good job in the end. I found that ordinary household thinners washed the rollers ok so assume it would be ok to thin it.
Stu

 

[Spyro]

Was this after you stirred it really well? Most anti foul manufacturers do not recommend thinning

That was before stirring but it was thick like that all the way to the bottom.

 

[Spyro]

I bought the same, thought sh it! But SWMBO perservered with a small roller. Stirring it makes it runny! Did a good job in the end. I found that ordinary household thinners washed the rollers ok so assume it would be ok to thin it.
Stu

Washed a roller??? I've always found they are cheaper than the thinners.

 

[Billjratt]

I bought some heavily settled discount antifoul this year - it seemed to have been lying for 100 years and was solid at the bottom... and very sloppy up top, where it tended to spill when stirred. A real PITA. but it eventually it succumbed to an electric stirrer and we have rolled it on. Another old tin from a few seasons ago was thinned a bit in order to augment supplies - again successful. We don't clean rollers or brushes between sessions, just dump them in a bucket of water and then 'paint the wall' to squidge them before using again. Antifoul has a dangerous aura - almost as bad as anchors, sometimes successful sometimes a failure, depending on surrounding factors and how it's applied.
Let's just slap it on then go sailing and talk about it - if neccessary- later.

 

[Spyro]

Well now have one side painted with left over cruiser uno from last time and one with the cheap gloopy stuff. I shall report in a year or two how they perform.

 

[Seashoreman]

I used that stuff. Stirred it for a while, glooped it into tray and rolled it on. Seems like good thick quality to me, was told it was Plastimo?