island mike
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jul 31, 2011
- Messages
- 440
Hi everyone,
This is my maiden voyage on i boats,But I am realy looking for some help.
After about three years of converting my cabin cruiser in a little big game vessel I finaly finished the honeycomb pilothouse roughly a week ago,I had a can of two compound paint waiting and matching hardener.I went to the shop where I got it from to get it mixed,maching more or less the boats colour..The paint is called bichotane by the way.
While at the shop I got a "bichotane" two compound primer.
The seller told me that the mixing ratio for the primer as well as the paint itself,was 4 to 1.
Well the primer hardened,The paint on the other half is still soft after about a week.
I went back to the store and the guy finaly more or less admitted that he had forgotten to tell me that as soon as you change the colour of a paint the mixing ratio changes too...Nice one about a year worth of work on my pilothouse down the drain.
sanding is no option,the disk would fill up in an instant,I am trying laquer thinner wich takes ages to get a small area more or less clean and leaves the underlaying primer untouched,I figure it would take me about a week of constant rubbing to get the job done.I prefer not to use paint stripper.
I did talk to some of my friends from my former job at the boatyard,One suggested painting over the uncured paint with correctly mixed paint( 3 to 1 ?) the philosophy behind this is that the uncured paint will react to the resin in the new paint and harden...I just do not know anymore,Over the last three years I replaced the stringers, Transom,and sole but this seems to be a real problem anyone out there have some good advice please???
This is my maiden voyage on i boats,But I am realy looking for some help.
After about three years of converting my cabin cruiser in a little big game vessel I finaly finished the honeycomb pilothouse roughly a week ago,I had a can of two compound paint waiting and matching hardener.I went to the shop where I got it from to get it mixed,maching more or less the boats colour..The paint is called bichotane by the way.
While at the shop I got a "bichotane" two compound primer.
The seller told me that the mixing ratio for the primer as well as the paint itself,was 4 to 1.
Well the primer hardened,The paint on the other half is still soft after about a week.
I went back to the store and the guy finaly more or less admitted that he had forgotten to tell me that as soon as you change the colour of a paint the mixing ratio changes too...Nice one about a year worth of work on my pilothouse down the drain.
sanding is no option,the disk would fill up in an instant,I am trying laquer thinner wich takes ages to get a small area more or less clean and leaves the underlaying primer untouched,I figure it would take me about a week of constant rubbing to get the job done.I prefer not to use paint stripper.
I did talk to some of my friends from my former job at the boatyard,One suggested painting over the uncured paint with correctly mixed paint( 3 to 1 ?) the philosophy behind this is that the uncured paint will react to the resin in the new paint and harden...I just do not know anymore,Over the last three years I replaced the stringers, Transom,and sole but this seems to be a real problem anyone out there have some good advice please???