Interlux Experience Please?

ezmobee

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I like the color. It's a very modern color. I see them using it on new Sailfish and other offshore boats. Shaves some years off yours :)
 

Tail_Gunner

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I got thru the second coat... I sanded the 1st coat with a 320 by hand and then rolled the 2nd coat... I am wondering how i FINISH the final coat? I am thinking I may go 3 coats since I have the paint and the prep work is behind me.... After the 3rd coat is dry - then what? Your thoughts...
-OP-
another crappy cell phone pic - I keep forgetting my camera...

:D By the tone of your post's you are getting better result's each time you apply a new coat. Good for you, now is the time to get down to business. Get right back on your sanding routine only take out every imperfection you see. And keep doing this until you run out of paint.....Give her 5 days to dry and go have fun, it will not hardened completey for 14-17 day''s but you can splash her...by the way do not or buff at all when your done nor wax......the job is done...:cool:
 

Dunaruna

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Nice job! Even with the 'crappy phone' pics there is a very nice gloss. I am in the middle of doing the same job, just finished filling- now the sanding begins................
 

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Thanks? I do appreciate that..! As a fisrt timer, I?d say my biggest lesson was to be patient!!! I did the prep work and did know just how thin the paint would lay? The 1st coat went on after a 220 sanding, the second coat after a 320 sanding? While to me (novice) there is not much difference, in the world of painting, the 220 surface takes more paint than the 320 surface? It took me a few minutes of spreading out the paint to realize this? Using Interlux 333 makes spreading the paint a breeze? The paint almost appears as self-healing the way it auto levels each coat? Amazing!!!
 

wca_tim

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fyi, in a pinch, brightsides thins almost as well with xylenes... (xylol at home depot or Lowes...).

sprays a lot easier than it rolls

and no matter how long it dries, it is soft compared to a lot of other paints I've tried...

if you get marks in it, let it dry for a full month, then gently sand them out with 600 (wet) then even the whole thing out with 1000, then 1200 or 1500 and buff it out... it'll look a lot better than when you started...
 

Dunaruna

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off peak, can I ask why you chose brightside and not perfection? Every piece of literature I have read says that brightside is not suggested for below waterline. Your thoughts? The reason I am asking is that I have not made a decision yet as to what paint to use.
 

Off-Peak

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off peak, can I ask why you chose brightside and not perfection? Every piece of literature I have read says that brightside is not suggested for below waterline. Your thoughts? The reason I am asking is that I have not made a decision yet as to what paint to use.
HI... Yes, I would have used Perfection "IF" it was offered in SKY-BLUE right out of the can... This is my 1st boat so I truly dont know how much I will use it and where it will be used. Our boat might be used 6-8 times a year and trailed to the water. Brightside can handle 72 hours in the water and can be used below the waterline on boats that are trailered or not in the water 72+ hours at a time. When I use the boat its for a few hours or day max.... But it was 100% a color thing and nothing more...!!! If Perfection was in SKY-BLUE, i would have purchased that product. In my mind, before Perfection was offered by Interlux, painters were using Brightside and others & the results were good enough to keep them on the market this long....

I may be sorry, but for me, Brightsides was the way to go!!
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Off-Peak

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fyi, in a pinch, brightsides thins almost as well with xylenes... (xylol at home depot or Lowes...).

sprays a lot easier than it rolls

and no matter how long it dries, it is soft compared to a lot of other paints I've tried...

if you get marks in it, let it dry for a full month, then gently sand them out with 600 (wet) then even the whole thing out with 1000, then 1200 or 1500 and buff it out... it'll look a lot better than when you started...

When you sand with 600+ are you just wiping the surface by hand? I am a pro at ripping with aggressive paper, but even 320 fine was new to me... I assume I would just 'float' the sand paper like I was wiping the boat down by hand??
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Tail_Gunner

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When you sand with 600+ are you just wiping the surface by hand? I am a pro at ripping with aggressive paper, but even 320 fine was new to me... I assume I would just 'float' the sand paper like I was wiping the boat down by hand??
-OP-


Trying to be a little subjective here, Brightsides will never harden like Perfection.

Once Brightside's has hardened for 5 day's, that is your final finish.....it will not get any harder. Above and beyond that if you bust the thin transparent film that both paint's finish to you will never get back the luster.

Your by far better off to sand build and paint to a final finish than to cut a buff to a fisnish.....Interlux is not a automotive paint......follwed up with a clear.....
 

wca_tim

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Trying to be a little subjective here, Brightsides will never harden like Perfection.

Once Brightside's has hardened for 5 day's, that is your final finish.....it will not get any harder. Above and beyond that if you bust the thin transparent film that both paint's finish to you will never get back the luster.

Your by far better off to sand build and paint to a final finish than to cut a buff to a fisnish.....Interlux is not a automotive paint......follwed up with a clear.....

agreed on better off with laying it out perfect the first time, but it'll wet sand and buff out a lot better than many paints. I screwed some up when playing and it did wetsand and buff out fine. ran it a little in one spot and a little orange peel playing with home much thinner to use.

on curing, even though the surface will probably reach full hardness, single component polyurethane-based paints all take longer to fully cure than most two-part polyurethanes. You're probably building up strength for at least a month...
 
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