what paint to use to paint a fiberglass rc boat

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   asianbandit Junior Fellow member

   Has anybody e'er used canned spray paint(Krylon, Rustoleum)to paint their fiberglass boat?? I came across this article for painting fiberglass RC Boats and wonder if the same would apply to any fiberglass gunkhole in the water? I assume that if it tin can hold upwards on a model boat that is raced every week or month, why would it not hold upwardly on a simple fiberglass fishing gunkhole?

   Here is the link to the article, http://www.offshoreelectrics.com/how_to_spray_paint.htm

   Let me know your thoughts. I know that this has never been reccommend earlier, but for those of united states who can't afford an expensive paint job, would this be an alternative?

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   Richard Hillsid Senior Member

   On expense i would say information technology is cheaper to by a 20-70 dollar spray gun and skilful 2 part paints than aerosol cans, how much does a gallon of pigment cost in aerosol cans?
   Yous don't take to by Hempel or Awlgrip, virtually industrial 2 office PU paints work skillful.

   There is a large difference in 2 part and one part paints in how they final.

   The painter takes his coin, but if you lot going to utilize your time on aerosol paints, y'all might likewise pigment with a spray gun, less time and improve finish and easier than with cans, what im trying to say is that if you cant paint with a spray gun its much tougher to become the terminate with aerosol cans.

   Also as a added benefit if you screw upwardly bad with the paint job the 2 part PU paint tin can be sanded down and over painted, the ane function paint would have to be removed totally before a repaint with a proper paint as it near probable will boil under the new paint or at to the lowest degree chip all of in no time, you could paint it once every bit a learning thing, the fill any scratches and sand and the pigment the surface, by then y'all should have got the hang of it, if you still get small runs etc they tin can be carefully sanded down and polished to shine similar the remainder of the boat.

   And in now fourth dimension you could have a second income as a gunkhole painter, with spray painting you lot learn information technology or you dont.

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   asianbandit Junior Member

   Saftey!

   Thanks for your thoughts...I forgot to mention in my original statement that safe was a large concern for me in using Polyurethane (PU) paints. I currently live in an flat and do not take admission to a well-ventilated, secluded surface area to paint with PU. It will require me to find a location and get all the necessary safety equipment (air-supplied respirator, spray gun, etc) to paint. Painting this myself seems a little dangerous, since I am uneducated in the painting field. And it will be too costly for my budget to get a professional to do it.

   Concerning the quantity of paint in aerosol cans, I believe that iii-4 cans will more adequately encompass my 14' vessel. 3-four cans of primer coat, 3-4 cans of paint, and 2-3 cans of clear coat...they are just $3-$5 dollars a can..So $55-$sixty for the project. Don't conceptualize spending over $100 bucks for supplies. I understand that it will almost likely not look as adept as PU, but will it wait practiced from 10-20 anxiety away? Practise suspect anyone else getting that much closer than that except for me.....

   Since this is just a weekend project with limited resources I cannot afford to practise everything by the volume… So you believe that the pigment would skin later on a little while… Would using the aerosol prime number coat and aerosol clear coat assist prevent the pigment class pealing?>> What are your thoughts? Thanks for your response…If we decide to go that style, I will definitely post some pictures of the results, unless someone can come up with a superior reason not to do information technology.

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   Richard Hillsid Senior Member

   SAFETY 2

   Boil or fleck (not peel except if y'all employ latex) if you lot repaint it with a PU paint the risk is there, almost a fact.

   The droplets pigment should stay on if it doesn't have to exist repainted with 2 part paints and dont make clean it with grafiti removers.

   Good luck with the project, de grease, sand, fill, prime if you feel its necessary and paint. The under work takes 95 % of the time to obtain a good result.

   You could besides use a mohair roller and a proficient brush to paint on the 2 part PU pigment, don't demand no respirator, and painting by hand was the fashion just 30-40 years agone, all the great boats were varnished past brush, and the results spoke for them selves, my dad used to paint and varnish boats with a brush, in the lx'south to 80's, and it was oft mistaken by novices as spray painted in the later years, painting by castor is merely a lot more than hard and you need to plan alee on the sequence your going to use and be ahead and atop of what you doing for good results.

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   asianbandit Inferior Member

   Latex

   Boil or flake (not peel except if yous use latex) if you repaint it with a PU paint the risk is at that place, almost a fact

   Are you lot maxim I should use Latex spray paint? Will this provide better results?

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   JPC Junior Member

   I hold with Richard's comments, just if y'all're concerned nearly complexity/respiration with ii-function paints and proper sprayers, you lot however might find a center basis with 1-office paints and something like a borrowed Wagner ability-painter.

   In any example, I suspect you'd have much better results from rolling/brushing with a good one or two part paint than from doing the Krylon job. If y'all still lean towards the Krylon road though, consider some place like "Earl Sheib" - the motorcar-painting concatenation: they used to mask and shoot cars for US$99. You get what you pay for, only I retrieve it would be better than the spray-tin can method.

   [edit: sorry: my annotate is a piffling dated - y'all two were quick with the last ii posts!]

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   jimslade Senior Member

   Prep is all the piece of work. Exercise it yourself and relieve the money. Accept someone spray 1 coat of polyurethane on it. It simply takes ten minutes to spray a gunkhole, only a week to prep information technology properly.

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