tom relates:

-The new epoxy paints are freakin' amazing. I was involved in a restoration
over last winter and we used epoxy paint for the doors and some exterior
surfaces. Of course, it helped that the painter knew what he was doing, but it
was a really nice finish - all buffed out and cleaned up, it looked like
fiberglass.-

Bilge- Applied correctly to steel, the stuff will withstand 40k psi water
blasting.

But it's slow going to work with...you don't wanna mix too much for the job at
hand, coz you only have about an hour to work it before it starts setting
up...and you go through more brushes and rollers than you do with oil based
paints.

For Graeme, Hempel is prolly the most available on the US east coast.
Hempalin,IIRC, is their trade name for their two part exterior. You'll also
have to get the proper primer and thinner for the stuff too, as classic mineral
spirits won't necessarily do squat for ya.

If you can get Kansai paint company stuff, we used it on the LNG tankers and
it was fantastic.

I can't recall the other epoxies I've used. I'd go wake up the Bosun, but I
don't fancy having a mooring line fid thrown at me.

Pretty much everybody is into the epoxy market now because all the shipping
companies won't touch the old enamels anymore.

Regards;


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