painted props

[Guest]

I have a three year old volvo penta 2040 sail drive with a 3 bladed fixed propeller. The powdered coating is peeling off leaving bare metal. Have you any advice as to how i can deal with this? Is it important that the coating is reapplied or should i just leave it as bare metal?

Thanks
Philip Schwarz

 

[aztec]

check metal finishing/polishers in the yellow pages..or simmilar, if you take the prop to them they will powder coat it while they are doing a batch...nice and cheap! but colours may vary, unless you're upside down this shouldn't matter!

 

[Guest]

After suitable preparation of prop surfaces try coating with an appropriate anti- foul coating. White and other colours available. Worked well on my manganese bronze prop.

 

[Twister_Ken]

DON'T use a standard copper based antifouling. It may/will induce galvanic corrosion with your prop and cause dezincification. There are special prop/outboard paints available. For example, Blakes recommends its new formulation for Waterline - better known as a boot topping paint.

 

[Guest]

I have a sillette outdrive leg with an aluminium bronze prop. i undercoat the prop with epoxy and then put on a two pack poly top coat. i find that this lasts about 3 seasons, by which time it has succumbed to impact damage of some sort

you can get the paint cheaper from an industrial paint supplier