First Coat Of Awl Grip

[Speakrdude]

Re: First Coat Of Awl Grip

Thom, We have applied the first coat of 545 Sunday with a sprayer and followed the 1:1 mix ratio of primer and hardener. The can of reducer says, "reducer may not be nessessary". The mix of 545 and catalyst was pretty thin without reducer but added a little bit anyway. The results were perfect. The primer sprayed and covered very well. No runs, no drips, no errors. I cannot under stand why some of the instructions say to thin soo much??<br /><br />Your thoughts?<br /><br />Jim

 

[ThomWV]

Re: First Coat Of Awl Grip

Speakrdude,<br /><br />Its hard for me to say because I didn't spray, I used a roller for all of it other than just a little bit of hard to reach stuff I did with a Preval sprayer, but using brushing/roller reducer. In general I tried it from very little reducer added to a lot of reducer added and to be honest with you it got better as it got thinner. I don't think that tells you much though because I'm guessing that spray applicaiton and reducer act a lot differently than roller's counterparts do. For whatever its worth someone told me that they worked at a boat yard that did roller applications of this stuff and they had an interesting way of doing the primer. As I understood it what they did was take a crew and apply a coat by roller all the way around the boat. By the time they got back to the starting point it would have skinned over and they just proceeded to put a second coat right on top of the first. I was told they put on 3 coats that way. Then they came back a day or two later and sanded it then went straight to the color coat. That is how I'm goin to do my top half next year. Can't hurt to try.<br /><br />Back to your question, when it came to the color coat Awl Grip was recommending something like 33%~40% and It worked best for me if I west straight to the maximum and then added just a little bit as I went along. Once again though, the roller stuff may act a lot differently than sprayed juice will.<br /><br />Thom<br /><br />Thom