Hi, Brownbag, and group,

brownbag wrote:


...for better pricing on Poli-Glow I tried Min-Wax Polycrylic. It
looks like a duck; it smells like a duck; it spreads, dries, shines and
lasts (so far) like a duck....but maybe a bit more viscous.

...I'm even trying it on a bit of fiberglass headliner to see if it
cuts down on mildew.

--
I am Epoxy Man

There were several threads in both this and many of the Sailnet lists,
just as we were readying to do a very laborious buffout (it would have
required not less than two levels of buffing compound and then a wax
job, on several hundred square feet, not to mention the non-nonskid
areas of the deck and house, which would likely have had to been done
by hand) which prompted us to go to PoliGlow. The Practical Sailor
review clinched the data side, and of the many chiming in, I found no
detractors and many shock-and-awe positive responses from users. Our
own experience mirrors theirs.

While it was in the stands, it looked great. Now that it's in the
water, it looks stunning. However, we used a great deal more of it -
both the cleaner and the application - than expected. We've got a big
boat...

So, we'll buy more, so we have it to reapply (well, overcoat and then a
few years later, reapply) later. As it has a shelf life of 4 years in
the tropics, that means having enough to recoat prolly 3 or 4 times
(tropical use needing reapplication on a 6-8 month cycle) and then
clean off and redo. By that time we'll have figured out how we'll get
more to wherever we are without breaking the bank :{))

As to Penetrol, I presume Rosalie's experience is positive or she'd not
mention it. Several years ago, when I was considering using it to
renewing a glitter stripe on a white runabout, and also for a black ski
boat, I raised the question in this and several other usenet groups,
not having a sailnet link at the time. The response was uniformly "it
looked great for a month or so and then looked like real crap - it took
a lot of doing to get off and we'll not use it again" - but, as above.
Perhaps it was (also uniformly) applicator error.

As to floor wax, that thought surfaced in one or more of the threads.
It's quite possibly the same stuff - but apparently, with some serious
UV protection. Nonetheless, I'm all for buying stuff in dollar
increments, rather than decidollar increments. Please come back after
you've had some extensive time of UV exposure to let us know how it
did. And, don't overlook their cleaning process - necessary to let the
stuff get a grip, the essence of how it works (penetrol, too - the
penet being its filling all the little spaces). I'm assuming the
stripper sold by the acrylic floor folks would also clean adequately,
but I don't know. I do know for sure that trying to wash your hands
and the applicators after you've done some is fruitless without the
right solvent, of which soap and water isn't :{))

And, to be fair, you should do an adjacent panel in PG for comparison.
The PS report showed many of the competitors to the type as having a
pretty fair application - but none did nearly as well on
re/over-application, typical of what you'd do rather than scrub and
start over. Of course, ours is new, so we don't have extensive time.
However, all reports, including the guy next to us who was doing his
sportboat's renewal coat's anecdotal comments (he likes it so much he's
a dealer), suggest that the stuff does as advertised.

Today I'm doing electrical and electronics extractions - unexpected
failures of lots of stuff, of which two of the three types can be
repaired reasonably, and the most expensive, the fish finder, toast and
not even any stale bread to replace it, cuz the transducer is not
compatible with anything other than one of their depth gauges. Before
I start from scratch, I'm going to do a bit of looking to see if I can
find a NOS display - but they're 15 or more years old...

L8R

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