wrote in news:1190990836.861312.237230@
19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:

We've done the same thing. It works, sort of, but not as well as
painting the prop thickly with liquid marker ink. It's hard to find
but not very expensive.



Any office supply place. It's called "Stamp Pad Ink".

Cheap.


Larry
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:57:23 -0400, "Scotty" wrote:

What's good for 'bottom painting' a prop?

Nobody paints bronze. No real point to it. Bronze is an alloy of,
mostly tin and copper, both of which are used as the active ingredient
in anti-fouling paint. I have seen some bare stainless props as well,
but I am a fresh water sailor, and we don't have to contend with real
marine wildlife. As for aluminum, probably Awlgrip or maybe epoxy.
Antifouling paint is supposed to slowly dissolve, On a spinning prop
it dissolves[ ablate if you like] rather too quickly, so they don't
use it.

Casady

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:57:23 -0400, "Scotty" wrote this
crap:

What's good for 'bottom painting' a prop?


You paint your prop? What for? Nothing grows on bronze.




I'm Horvath and I approve of this post.

Prop speed.

After 20 years I finally found something that works on inboards. READ
THE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY.... IT WORKS ONLY IF USED AS DIRECTED.

Mine last about 12 mos in S Florida


Bloody Horvath wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:57:23 -0400, "Scotty" wrote this
crap:


What's good for 'bottom painting' a prop?



You paint your prop? What for? Nothing grows on bronze.




I'm Horvath and I approve of this post.

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:36:06 -0400, Ed wrote this
crap:

Prop speed.


I don't get it. After your prop folds up, how is the paint going to
make it faster?



What's good for 'bottom painting' a prop?



You paint your prop? What for? Nothing grows on bronze.


I'm Horvath and I approve of this post.

What's good for 'bottom painting' a prop?



OzOne wrote:
Nothing...just use the bloody thing.

heh
that's what *I* tried to tell 'em, but would they listen to me... no-
oo

DSK

On Sep 28, 9:39 pm, wrote:
What's good for 'bottom painting' a prop?

OzOne wrote:
Nothing...just use the bloody thing.

heh
that's what *I* tried to tell 'em, but would they listen to me... no-
oo

DSK

You still need to paint it with a primer and then with special
antifouling for props which is harder than normal antifouling paint.
And of course you need to run the prop once a week as some guys said!
And yes Bronze props Do get barnacles if you dont run it!!!

Stelios
www.sig.gr

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:56:33 -0700, "www.sig.gr"
wrote this crap:

You still need to paint it with a primer and then with special
antifouling for props which is harder than normal antifouling paint.
And of course you need to run the prop once a week as some guys said!
And yes Bronze props Do get barnacles if you dont run it!!!


Really? I never get barnacles on mine. Boat builders used to put tin
or copper on the bottom of boats to keep off the barnacles, because
barnacles wouldn't grow on those. Today's bottom paint is copper
based. Isn't your prop made out of an alloy of copper and tin?

I've never seen any barnacles on any props of any boats in my marina.
No barnacles. Not one. No zebra mussels either.




I'm Horvath and I approve of this post.

Bloody Horvath wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:56:33 -0700, "www.sig.gr"
wrote this crap:


You still need to paint it with a primer and then with special
antifouling for props which is harder than normal antifouling paint.
And of course you need to run the prop once a week as some guys said!
And yes Bronze props Do get barnacles if you dont run it!!!



Really? I never get barnacles on mine. Boat builders used to put tin
or copper on the bottom of boats to keep off the barnacles, because
barnacles wouldn't grow on those. Today's bottom paint is copper
based. Isn't your prop made out of an alloy of copper and tin?

I've never seen any barnacles on any props of any boats in my marina.
No barnacles. Not one. No zebra mussels either.




I'm Horvath and I approve of this post.

When we were still in Michigan, even using a copper based bottom paint
(VC 17) and having a bronze prop, we still had a few zebra mussels at
the end of wach season...and I do not believe there are barnacles in
fresh watr so you don't have to worry about that at all...Now we hire a
diver to dive down and scrape several times a year...the Neuse is a
dirty old river, fill of things like physteria (sp) from all the hog
farming upriver...not going to get in there if it's not an emergency...

"katy" wrote in message
...

When we were still in Michigan, even using a copper based bottom paint
(VC 17) and having a bronze prop, we still had a few zebra mussels at the
end of wach season...and I do not believe there are barnacles in fresh
watr so you don't have to worry about that at all...Now we hire a diver to
dive down and scrape several times a year...the Neuse is a dirty old
river, fill of things like physteria (sp) from all the hog farming
upriver...not going to get in there if it's not an emergency...

You are not even safe in a lake it would seem.On our news today there is a
story about six people dying in USA because of some amoeba that gets up your
nose while you swim and theneats away at your brain. Unfortunately they did
not say which lake it was-or if other lakes carry this pest.