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Post by cygnus on Jan 25, 2018 19:51:40 GMT
The zinc phosphate primer that magnetman is considering would be quite adequate for the job he is doing. It will stand up to the weather pretty well, far better than red oxide for instance. My current favourite primer is Teamac anti-corrosion red oxide primer, it's not too fast drying, better than just bog standard red oxide, and where I used it, lasted months before I got around to completing the job.
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Post by JohnV on Jan 26, 2018 7:58:40 GMT
When I was in drydock, I ran out of time/enthusiasm for chipping and painting. The flange where the tank top is bolted to the deck has thick layers of old paint and scale and because of the shape and the number of large nuts it has largely been ignored for the last 20 odd years. just getting another coat of "summat or the other" paint (this being my favourite brand ) I started chipping this while in drydock but it is such a laborious process it never quite got finished although the work progressed slowly over the following months. (fortunately there always seemed to be some other "important job" that drew me away ) Anyway to get to the point of this post ....... this area of Sabina has now become a test bed for various anti-rust preparations and as I quite like the patchwork effect, it has become a testing area for various treatments (after each attack with the chipping hammer "whatever was handy" got slopped on, this being another of my favourite brands) there are now areas covered with Fertan anti-rust, Xylene based red oxide, Flag rust converter, and Fertan covered with xylene based red oxide. In a few months time I hope to give a report about this exhaustive test. Of course the downside is that I won't be able to finish my painting until then
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Post by cygnus on Jan 26, 2018 11:59:46 GMT
After a lifetime of buggering about with paint I am now retired, and I mean to stay that way.
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Post by peterboat on Jan 26, 2018 19:41:32 GMT
When I was in drydock, I ran out of time/enthusiasm for chipping and painting. The flange where the tank top is bolted to the deck has thick layers of old paint and scale and because of the shape and the number of large nuts it has largely been ignored for the last 20 odd years. just getting another coat of "summat or the other" paint (this being my favourite brand ) I started chipping this while in drydock but it is such a laborious process it never quite got finished although the work progressed slowly over the following months. (fortunately there always seemed to be some other "important job" that drew me away ) Anyway to get to the point of this post ....... this area of Sabina has now become a test bed for various anti-rust preparations and as I quite like the patchwork effect, it has become a testing area for various treatments (after each attack with the chipping hammer "whatever was handy" got slopped on, this being another of my favourite brands) there are now areas covered with Fertan anti-rust, Xylene based red oxide, Flag rust converter, and Fertan covered with xylene based red oxide. In a few months time I hope to give a report about this exhaustive test. Of course the downside is that I won't be able to finish my painting until then John you should have said I could have let you have some zinger to test
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Post by Jim on Jan 27, 2018 20:50:33 GMT
Rustoleum combicolour. No primer needed. Anti rust properties. Originally, it was found that where fish was gutted on trawlers the steel didn't rust. So they put fish oil in paint. Job sorted. It's now a synthetic version of fish oil afaik.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 20:55:07 GMT
In the end I used hammerite and chose the colour "wild thyme"
Got 3/4 of the roof painted with two coats using 2 x 750ml pots (roof is about 30ftx7ft)
4 reasons for using this paint
1. I think "wild thyme" is quite exciting. 2. B&Q which means don't have to wait for post. 3. My friend told me to use hammerite paint. 4. It is a greenish grey shade and the sides of the boat are green so it "goes".
Anyway I put a note in the ships log saying repainted in Hammerite Wild Thyme by "Bodgett and Scarpa professional painting services"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 20:56:01 GMT
Rustoleum combicolour. No primer needed. Anti rust properties. Originally, it was found that where fish was gutted on trawlers the steel didn't rust. So they put fish oil in paint. Job sorted. It's now a synthetic version of fish oil afaik. I wish I had read this before.
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Post by smileypete on Jan 27, 2018 23:16:17 GMT
Rustoleum combicolour. No primer needed. Anti rust properties. Originally, it was found that where fish was gutted on trawlers the steel didn't rust. So they put fish oil in paint. Job sorted. It's now a synthetic version of fish oil afaik. I wish I had read this before. The stuff you bought should perform roughly the same, b@q will charge a lot more than a trade brand from an online trade supplier but that's the price of convenience i s'pose... Not planning to regularly gut fish on the cabin roof i guess?
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Post by cygnus on Jan 28, 2018 0:19:28 GMT
In the end I used hammerite and chose the colour "wild thyme" Got 3/4 of the roof painted with two coats using 2 x 750ml pots (roof is about 30ftx7ft) 4 reasons for using this paint 1. I think "wild thyme" is quite exciting. 2. B&Q which means don't have to wait for post. 3. My friend told me to use hammerite paint. 4. It is a greenish grey shade and the sides of the boat are green so it "goes". Anyway I put a note in the ships log saying repainted in Hammerite Wild Thyme by "Bodgett and Scarpa professional painting services" Swaggle me eyes, sounds like a proper job.
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