"Gabe Silverman" wrote in message
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I'm repainting a Hobie 16 sailboat - filled nicks with epoxy, sanded
the entire boat smooth. West Marine reccomended directly apply Ezpoxy
to the hulls via the roll-on and tip method.

The problem we're having is that no matter how clean the environment,
(garage and surface), the paint is drying with a slight grain to it.
I'm pretty sure the "grain" is tiny bits of dried paint.

Anyway, we run space heaters in the garage and strain the paint prior
to applying it.

Uuhh do the space heaters run on kerosene or propane or are they electric?
If petroleum fuels, then soot in your paint might be the problem.


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The spacer heaters are electric...

You should still pre-heat the shop then turn off the heaters while the paint
takes a set. Moving the air around means you are moving dust around. Turn
the heaters on after the paint can be touched. Note that this takes
baby-sitting, else things may cool too much and paint can sag rather than
set. You might try radiant heaters without fans in them. Some people
pre-wet the floor (water) to reduce dust even further. I usually spray, so
I run a few pots of water through the paint gun to humidify the air and to
settle dust, then while any mist on the boat dries, I mix the paint and get
set up for the real thing (paint).

Brian

"Gabe Silverman" wrote in message
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The spacer heaters are electric...