Hello all. Great site and lots of info. Unfortuately can't find the info I'm wanting here or any other website.
I'm going to re gel lcoat my daughter 14' Sidewinder. Doing the hull first. I'm wanting it to be 80% all white with 20% 3 red stripes like a Hydrostream Venom. I have all my gel coat, styrene, and air dry. Not going to use Duratec because I do not want to go to the expence and I already have way to much gel coat now to have it go to waste. I don't mind the sanding and have all the time in the world. I have a 2.5MM HVLP greavity feed gun and am going to stray first coat one day the second the 2nd day and the final with air dry on the 3rd day.
1.) Once cured, after 3 days, will the tape underneath the gel coat peel off like the tape after painting with automotive paint? Or will it be so hard that now I won't get a clean edge because the Gel will crack when lifting tape? I do not really want to remove the tape in 4 hours and re tape for each coat.
As I said earlier. Would like to do two seperate colors. White being my main boat color and red being the accent color.
2.) How to do the two colors is my next question. I know it is usually done in a mold but how do the professionals spray an already built boat? Say I would like to do the red first. Tape of white area off and over a three day period spray my red last coat with air dry. Hopefully question one gets answered and I can the remove the tape. Then I would like to tape off the red and spray the white same as the red over the next three days. Remove tape. Sand and buff.
Do not really want to spray the whole hull white first and then tape off the white to spray the red because then under the red I will have 6 coats of gel coat and a huge ridge. Plus, when I remove the tape, will I have a clean edge.
The top deck will be as the hull with one exception. the red will be a large candy apple red Metal Flake like the bass boats. There, I will be using the Duratec 1040 Hi Gloss additive to replace my Styrene and will be putting three coats of clear over the whole deck.
3.) For the deck, spray the same as the hull but before spraying the Metal Flake, I will put one coat red base down first. Cover with flake and then 3 coat Clear Gel over entire deck.
Any help would be appreciated.
Dave
I'm going to re gel lcoat my daughter 14' Sidewinder. Doing the hull first. I'm wanting it to be 80% all white with 20% 3 red stripes like a Hydrostream Venom. I have all my gel coat, styrene, and air dry. Not going to use Duratec because I do not want to go to the expence and I already have way to much gel coat now to have it go to waste. I don't mind the sanding and have all the time in the world. I have a 2.5MM HVLP greavity feed gun and am going to stray first coat one day the second the 2nd day and the final with air dry on the 3rd day.
1.) Once cured, after 3 days, will the tape underneath the gel coat peel off like the tape after painting with automotive paint? Or will it be so hard that now I won't get a clean edge because the Gel will crack when lifting tape? I do not really want to remove the tape in 4 hours and re tape for each coat.
As I said earlier. Would like to do two seperate colors. White being my main boat color and red being the accent color.
2.) How to do the two colors is my next question. I know it is usually done in a mold but how do the professionals spray an already built boat? Say I would like to do the red first. Tape of white area off and over a three day period spray my red last coat with air dry. Hopefully question one gets answered and I can the remove the tape. Then I would like to tape off the red and spray the white same as the red over the next three days. Remove tape. Sand and buff.
Do not really want to spray the whole hull white first and then tape off the white to spray the red because then under the red I will have 6 coats of gel coat and a huge ridge. Plus, when I remove the tape, will I have a clean edge.
The top deck will be as the hull with one exception. the red will be a large candy apple red Metal Flake like the bass boats. There, I will be using the Duratec 1040 Hi Gloss additive to replace my Styrene and will be putting three coats of clear over the whole deck.
3.) For the deck, spray the same as the hull but before spraying the Metal Flake, I will put one coat red base down first. Cover with flake and then 3 coat Clear Gel over entire deck.
Any help would be appreciated.
Dave
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