Captain Crisp
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Hi - what's a good paint for these that I don't need to spend a fortune on in a chandlery?
Need a light grey...
Thanks!
Crisp
Need a light grey...
Thanks!
Crisp
Paint for ply wooden painted cockpit well and GRP coach roof.
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Poignard
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northwind
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differentroads
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+1 for Garage floor paint. But make sure the cockpit floor is well sealed because its going to be relatively damp and a small crack in the paint can start the rot. Worth treating it to polyester resin if it hasn't been painted before imho
Jim@sea
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When I had a body shop we were using 2 Pack Paint even before International Paints introduced 2 Pack Paint for marine use.
And what you could do with 2 Pack Paint wasn't regulated like it is today.
Often if we had sprayed a Transit a different colour we would brush paint the door steps with 2 pack as it would be harder wearing and you did not need to mask up.
In 1980 I had a Nauticat 33 and needed to paint the Bilges, Naturally I used 2 Pack Paint, applied with a brush.
The colour I chose was a light grey from the British Standard Colour Chart which as it happens was a perfect match for the existing bilge colour that Nauticat used which matched the light grey of the Engine being a British Massey Ferguson Grey as the engine was a Perkins.
One trick I found recently when painting the bilges in another boat was as the fumes of the acetone I had thinned the 2 pack paint was strong, I used a Henry type vacuum cleaner in the cockpit with the hose down in the bilges and that very successfully extracted all the fumes away.
However using 2 pack now is considered dangerous, so Dont Try This At Home.
And what you could do with 2 Pack Paint wasn't regulated like it is today.
Often if we had sprayed a Transit a different colour we would brush paint the door steps with 2 pack as it would be harder wearing and you did not need to mask up.
In 1980 I had a Nauticat 33 and needed to paint the Bilges, Naturally I used 2 Pack Paint, applied with a brush.
The colour I chose was a light grey from the British Standard Colour Chart which as it happens was a perfect match for the existing bilge colour that Nauticat used which matched the light grey of the Engine being a British Massey Ferguson Grey as the engine was a Perkins.
One trick I found recently when painting the bilges in another boat was as the fumes of the acetone I had thinned the 2 pack paint was strong, I used a Henry type vacuum cleaner in the cockpit with the hose down in the bilges and that very successfully extracted all the fumes away.
However using 2 pack now is considered dangerous, so Dont Try This At Home.