The Rustoleum Topside Enamel that is being sold by Lowes, Home Depot, Menards etc is good stuff and it dries hard after just a couple days. Its a one part paint. Made for boat decks and above-waterline applications on boats. Its oil based and I've been really happy with it on boats and elsewhere. It costs $15/qt or less. Menards is the cheapest right now I think.
Comes in gray and several other colors. Dave On 3/4/2017 5:18 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 04 March 2017 01:21:26 Erik Christiansen wrote: > >> On 03.03.17 23:26, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> I used a two part stuff when I redid the bottom of my ancient boat >>> several years back, mixed the hardener in and air gunned it on >>> within an hour IIRC. And that has proven to be pretty tough stuff. >> That's the one. If it's good enough for barnacles ... >> >>>> OTOH, if your swarf is coming off hot enough to soften epoxy, then >>>> maybe you need a really good bake-on powdercoat job? Or stove >>>> enamel, perhaps. ;) >>> I haven't made enough swarf with it yet to measure how hot it was >>> when it hit me. Stove enamel? Not looked too hard, but I don't >>> recall seeing any on the shelves either. >> The local hardware near-monopoly's search engine doesn't grok "stove >> enamel", but a manual search finds a "high heat enamel" which is >> claimed to be durable to boot: >> >> https://www.bunnings.com.au/dulux-duramax-300g-high-heat-enamel-black- >> spray-paint_p1400735 >> > There are similar products available here, but would prefer a medium grey > as thats what the rest of the machine has on it now. The paint I used > last summer was a bit too dark and glossy, and off toward tan to be a > great match. > >> There has to be something like it in the northern hemisphere. It's >> easier to whack on, but my money's on the epoxy two-pack. > And a hand sprayer, like an airbrush, which I have, but I'm near out of > acetone for panel cleanup before, and the airbrush after. >> Here, down south, global warming seems to be moving our rainfall >> toward summer, as predicted. We've had 278 mm Dec to Feb. The >> pre-metric rainfall measure here was the inch, divided into 100 >> points. The units program seems to think they're a purely local unit: >> >> $ units -1 >> You have: 278 mm >> You want: australiapoint >> * 1094.4882 >> >> In any event, wet means low fire danger. I'm very happy with that, >> when they have had a dry 47°C/116°F up north. >> >> Erik > Yes, it seems from what we read up here, the native vegetation/brush > burns faster on the bottom of this ball of rock, and soon to be more > water. I hope you are more than 200 feet ASL now because thats the ocean > rise if the whole antarctic sheet thaws, and it is, breaking records > nearly every year lately. Tossing in the greenland ice will add another > 80 feet. That's said to be decades away yet. By then we humans will have > screwed ourselves out of dry land to live on. You and I will be long > gone, but our grand-git may well have to defend their turf with suitable > firearms. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
