Chicken Dinner!
Folks I can declare the paint shop a roaring success, spent this afternoon base-coating the forepeak components in Morrells PU lacquer, For this i need to wear an air fed gimp mask but thats a small price to pay as this stuff is up there with the Reactive resins epoxy - yes it rocks too.
The reason it rocks is simple: this lacquer is touch dry in 15 minutes sandable in 30 and recoatable in 45, whereas that bloody over-priced Hempels crap i bought (to topcoat the window frames) would take 16 hours - yes thats not a typo, 16 arse-dragging hours till it went off.
And as is typical most of the time here in Blighty the marine-based product is total fucking robbery as the Morrells super quick drying PU works out at £50 give or take for 7.5 litres and the Hempels super slow diamond hard is getting on for £40 a litre!!!
Mmm...........................fuck that!
Admittedly you dont get a cute picture of a sailboat on the Morrells tin but i can just about live with that if i'm honest. Also i should big up the Sealey spray gun i've been using, the SSG501 (if you're interested) and still available on ebay for less then £20 as the last time i talked paint i was considering a Devilbiss gun.
This mainly because they're amazing spray guns which we used to use back in the day at the shop but seeing as they were brother Rik's and i dont have money to burn i'll stick with the Sealey gun.
A truly great bit of kit seeing as you can get a needle/aircap from 1.2mm all the way upto 2.5mm making it a really versatile spray gun for no money, go buy one!
Heres how things look at present:
Thats three coats of sealer on the above and below:
These pictures make me look almost talented - will be a different story spraying the hull and deck i'm sure, tomorrow i'll lay down the clear top coat and white basecoat for the outer frame.
My only concern based on todays efforts is i dont have enough free air capacity to run my mask and gun for more than 15 mins so when it comes to spraying the boat i may have to get a bigger air receiver................more kit i guess...............
Ciao
It's a bugger isn't it - there always seems to be a bigger and better bit of kit to do the job. Nice tidy looking workshop btw. Keep at it mate.
ReplyDeleteCheers Jon, i think ive solved the air volume probs by ordering another compressor and then connecting it inline with the existing one so i should have enough free air capacity to spray the hull deck and the extra comp is only a couple of hundred quid plus a few fittings. So not nearly as bad as buying one huge compressor that would do the job on its own, i stopped looking when they got over a grand, bloody frightening it was!
ReplyDeleteYeah i'm trying to keep the spray shop super tidy, i hoover the overspray up after each session so as not to mess up the next lot of work, which now includes my mums garden bench seeing as how impressed she was with the boat joinery i'd been painting.
I'll get this boat done one day....................