redfury
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So, in my never ending endeavor to find different painting solutions for my Glastron project, considering some of the paint schemes I've wanted will ultimately end up costing my hundreds in paint alone, I've kept my eyes out for other possible solutions.
I ran across this tonight and have started to consider the possibilities. It's not a permanent solution, so using it as bottom paint would be fool-hardy. However, that aside, for my trailer-ed boat the idea of plasti dip has its merits. It can be fixed, it's cheap, it's not glossy unless I wanted it to be glossy ( I don't ) it's easy to apply and if something doesn't turn out, you can simply rip it off and start over, there's no stripping and sanding and all that fuss. Not to mention pretty easy on the pocket book to the point where you can change the paint up if you felt like going through all the masking and cleaning for prep. It also uses a pretty basic paint sprayer, so you don't need an expensive compressor or crazy HLVP spray set...not to mention you can do it to the trailer, trailer tires, boat motor....Granted, I'm sure that it's not going to hold up to things like dock rash or things of that nature, but it's easy enough to protect against most of that.
That, and I can probably convince the wife that it's worth spending the money on it over something expensive like bright sides or similar product.
I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on it.
There are a lot of Youtube videos on it out there if you want to see what I'm talking about...perhaps this will replace rustoleum marine as the cheap alternative paint for boats?:laugh:
I ran across this tonight and have started to consider the possibilities. It's not a permanent solution, so using it as bottom paint would be fool-hardy. However, that aside, for my trailer-ed boat the idea of plasti dip has its merits. It can be fixed, it's cheap, it's not glossy unless I wanted it to be glossy ( I don't ) it's easy to apply and if something doesn't turn out, you can simply rip it off and start over, there's no stripping and sanding and all that fuss. Not to mention pretty easy on the pocket book to the point where you can change the paint up if you felt like going through all the masking and cleaning for prep. It also uses a pretty basic paint sprayer, so you don't need an expensive compressor or crazy HLVP spray set...not to mention you can do it to the trailer, trailer tires, boat motor....Granted, I'm sure that it's not going to hold up to things like dock rash or things of that nature, but it's easy enough to protect against most of that.
That, and I can probably convince the wife that it's worth spending the money on it over something expensive like bright sides or similar product.
I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on it.
There are a lot of Youtube videos on it out there if you want to see what I'm talking about...perhaps this will replace rustoleum marine as the cheap alternative paint for boats?:laugh:
