[PSUBS-MAILIST] Silicone

[Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles]

Thanks Brian, I'll ring them up tomorrow. This is part of the sub building
process that I am NOT looking forward to. I hate painting!
Rick

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 7:52 PM Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> Hi Rick,  I get my paint from an outfit in Long Beach - Pro-Line paint.
> It's a two paint process, the undercoat is epoxy barrier coat ( two part)
> and the final coat is a linear polyurethane ( also two parts)
>
> Brian
>
> --- personal_submersibles at psubs.org wrote:
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> From: Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <
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> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Silicone
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:09:53 -1000
>
> Thanks guys
> Dan H said he used an epoxy paint of some sort but they discontinued it
> because it caused cancer, I think he said emron or something but I thought
> the gist of the group here used an epoxy paint but when I mentioned that
> the other day at our Sherwin-Williams, they were adamant that it shouldn't
> be used in a semi underwater application, but like Jon says, I don't know
> any that are.
> Jon, let me know if you can locate what you were talking about and David,
> go ahead and send me your contact in Cal.
> Thanks again
> Just had another pretty big earthquake but no Lava this time
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 4:50 PM Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
> Rick,
>
> Ditto what David Colombo wrote.  I wish I could remember how the Sherwin
> Williams Rep steered us back in 2012 (I think it was) but there were
> certain products that they had which he highly recommended although none of
> them were in any way associated for underwater application.  I'm going to
> have to search through archives to see if I can pick up any info.
>
> Absent that, epoxy based paint is used by most that I am aware of.  I know
> Alec Smyth just used a roller for SNOOPY which provided a matt orange-peel
> type finish instead of a high gloss sheen, but like he said, it was wicked
> easy to patch a scratch or scrape that inevitably shows up due to bumping
> into things, etc.  I am likely going to follow that lead on the K-600.
>
> Jon
>
>
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> *From:* Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles <
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>
> Thanks Ian
> I know there are a lot of boats out there that are painted so was
> surprised to not get any feedback.
> Sherwin-Williams here on the big island said that they don't have anything
> that will work for an underwater application.
> Rick
>
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