Re: 1985 Sea Nymph 175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics!
Re: 1985 Sea Nymph 175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics!
Well, went out and gave it a shot on my lunch break. I will post what I used for my mix ratios if there is any interest. At first I didn't think it was going to work because the mix was quite pretty non-homogeneous, e.g. lots of swirls and not mixing well. After I while I gave up and just shook the can. Shaking produced about 95% uniformity. 5% was still swirly. I thinned the whole mix at 15% with acetone, and also used hardener at the recommended ratio.
The first thing I sprayed was a scrap piece of AL that I had previously primed. I set the gun very lean, and had to fuss with it to get to the point where it was applying a realistic amount of paint to create a sheen. I was very surprised to see that it was going on very uniformly - and looked great with a very dark metallic gray that I was looking for.
Sitting out in the sun the scrap piece didn't take long to tack up. I had a more material in the gun so I decided to try a small swatch on the boat, since the primer had already dried and I had sanded a small area. It sprayed on the boat beautifully. I quickly sanded the transom, and sprayed that with what was left in my gun. So far so good. I will report on how it dries, but by the time i was done the AL piece was already losing its tack.
As always - some pics:
Re: 1985 Sea Nymph 175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics!
Well, went out and gave it a shot on my lunch break. I will post what I used for my mix ratios if there is any interest. At first I didn't think it was going to work because the mix was quite pretty non-homogeneous, e.g. lots of swirls and not mixing well. After I while I gave up and just shook the can. Shaking produced about 95% uniformity. 5% was still swirly. I thinned the whole mix at 15% with acetone, and also used hardener at the recommended ratio.
The first thing I sprayed was a scrap piece of AL that I had previously primed. I set the gun very lean, and had to fuss with it to get to the point where it was applying a realistic amount of paint to create a sheen. I was very surprised to see that it was going on very uniformly - and looked great with a very dark metallic gray that I was looking for.
Sitting out in the sun the scrap piece didn't take long to tack up. I had a more material in the gun so I decided to try a small swatch on the boat, since the primer had already dried and I had sanded a small area. It sprayed on the boat beautifully. I quickly sanded the transom, and sprayed that with what was left in my gun. So far so good. I will report on how it dries, but by the time i was done the AL piece was already losing its tack.
As always - some pics:
