***Clipped*** --- In [email protected], "Ron Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Painted the boat. Just wish someone would invent a paint that repels > flies.... :-( ****************** Hi Ron! When I painted my boat, I had a tip from an experienced coach painter. It worked well for me. I sprayed the boat, after having masked up windows etc., The tip was: 1) Procure an old working electric chip fryer. 2) Procure a large paint kettle or similar to fit in the chip fryer. 3) Put some water in the bottom of the fryer. 4) Fill the paint kettle with the enamel boat paint and heat up the paint until it is very hot - DON'T LET IT BOIL - 5) Spray the paint hot. The heating of the paint makes the molicules smaller and you don't get any orange peel effect. The heated paint is more fluid and doesn't need any thinners added. Because the paint is heated, the spirits in the paint evaporate within an hour or so and it is vertually touch dry within the hour. Because of this advantage, I didn't get any insects stuck to the paint and ended up with an excellent glossy finish. **Disadvantages** Because one needs a good air pressure to supply a commercial sray gun, there is no single phase electric compressor available which will give the required air, so one needs to either connect to a garage supply or similar. I could no do tis, so I hired a road compressor and made up a conversion piece from the coarse bayonet road compressor fitting to a snap together garage air line fitting. I also put a moisture trap in the line and had an air pressure regulater in my iar gun line, nearer the boat. This caught almost ALL the moisure created due to condensation in the *LONG* road drill airline. This gave me good quality air at my disposal. I suspect that my finished product, although an excellent finish, suffered from ending up very hard. The downside of this is that my finish tends to "chip" if knocked on corners etc., The overall finish after 3 years is still very good, even though I haven't yet polished it. I need to touch up the chips in the paint - No I didn't leave any chips in the fryer! I had so much air available from the road compressor I could have run at least three air guns, so if you have some friends that can spray paint, you know what to do! I hope that the foregoing information will be useful to anyone wanting to repaint their boat and is thinking of spraying. I sprayed my boat under cover in a "WET DOCK" I fixed up decorators twill dust sheets to any doorways etc., to reduce any draughts which may have spoilt the finish. Regards, ~Allan ~ nb.Pengalanty
