interlux products

[CHANCE1234]

I'm getting ready to move some paint around on the 20 tomorrow and have read and researched a ton regarding interlux epoxy primekote and perfection. I have read so much on their forum that now i'm nervous about applying this on the boat. everything from temperature to apply to time in between reapplying to 3rd stage cure time (21 days!!) to applying over a part paint (which is a big no no evidently) i have a 40 something year old boat and i have done the best i can in preping for paint but the more knolwedge i get on interlux the more difficult it seems to get a good finish. anybody got any first hand knowledge/experience with this who can calm me down a little?

[flyingfrizzle]

I use a lot of interlux products recently (local marine shop is going out of business and everything is half off and they carry a lot of interlux products) and I have had good luck using them. I am not a professional painter at all and have limited experience painting and have good luck with their products. I think the use all of the wording to give you a best case situation mainly so if something goes wrong they will be able to blame it on something you did wrong. As long as the primeKote goes down good I think you will be ok. Stay with all "two part" products and you will be fine. Don't use a non-epoxy primer and think the perfection will do well over it. Chances it will but why use a high quality top coat with crap under it. Once you get a good 3 coats of epoxy primer over all of the existing stuff that is on the boat and it takes well you should end up with a good overall finish once you go over that. I would try to stay to their guide lines close as possible so that it will give you optimal conditions and the best Finnish but don't stress too much that missing a window by an hour will fail you paint job. Also the more previous coats you can get off the better. Start with a new fresh layers of all epoxy/polyurethane paints will be better than covering any original cheaper grade paints previously applied. I have used regular acidtone to thin with to spray the epoxy primers when I ran out of the 2333N correct reducer while spraying and it still done fine. Ihave ran outside of their requirements and timeframes as well due to "life" and the finishes still turn out well. I don't recommend doing that but if it happens you may be ok. The interlux line seems to be more forgiving than others such as algrip. That stuff scares the hell out of me. Not that perfections is good to breath in but they talk like the algrip paints are much more deadly to inhale. If you stick to their requirements the best you can you most likely will get a great finish that will last 10 years maybe.

[CHANCE1234]

Thanks frizzle. i will just have to see how it goes. I know i have one part paint on the transom after i replaced the transom so i will sand that down or maybe just try going over it with the primer just to see if it works. worst case scenario, i waste a little primer and it acts as a striper (as intelux says it will) and will get the paint off for me. the temps up here this weekend look decent. They say 50 is the minimun and i should be near 60 on Cape cod this week. Thank you.

[fat2nawilly]

I used the one part on my 20' wellcraft's dog house and will never use it again. after some time it shrunk and cracked everywhere looks like crap now. If your gonna do anything i would use gel coat or go with awlgrip/alwcraft. gel coat is very easy to use and holds up well.