Thread: Yellowtail woes-ever heard of a complete new paint job coming off like plastic wrap?

Dave,
Just read the episodes regarding your paint job. Just blows you away when you reckon you have done everything right.

Have had a similar experience in the past, and I think you do have to be careful with washdowns, particularly using things that have a high evaporative rate like metho. The dust can be held in suspension in the metho, and when it dries off you are right back where you started, but the thing is the solvent - depending upon what it is can go some way to re constituting the dust and it can lay back down a layer of very poorly adhering paint/dust combination, which it seems like what happened in this instance.

Have found one of the best methods to get rid of sanding dust, is on with the dust mask, fire up the compressor, go over the work a couple of times with compressed air, cheap, easy and works well.

Regards

Originally Posted by PAR

I have to admit, I'm very careful about what I use, which is usually the paint vehicle and/or a tack rag. An old friend long since dead now, often asked me if it would pass the "lick test". If you'd be willing to lick it (literally), it's probably clean enough for paint.

Dead?

Clearly it wasn't clean enough to lick or paint.

MIK

Yes, dead, after 93 years of building boats and tolerating "youngsters" like me, he passed in his sleep one morning. I've preformed the "lick test" more then once, though have developed it to a less tasty version. I'll wipe the area with a slightly damp white paper towel and check for color. If I get no color, it's clean enough to lick.

That made me laugh PAR!

thought i would resurrect this thread to see how your Yellowtail is coming along.

have you managed to remove all the pealing paint and re-paint your hull ?

I've shipped the bronzeware,finished the brightwork this afternoon and have decided to give the interior one more coat this week when I can make time-it's pretty grubby and knocked around from sitting around under the house for much longer than was intended and open to whatever the wind blows in,spider webs etc.As soon as that's done,over she goes.Interestingly,the masks for the timber were stuck as tight as hell after all this time but not one skerrick of white or grey paint came up with it.The black on 2/3's of one side is still on and seems to be pretty well bonded,I'll have a better look once I turn it and can get at it better and decide if it's serviceable or not-if there's the least doubt,I'll sand it off.The grey test I tried on the crappy part is stuck like epoxy.I'll post some pics once it's presentable.
Cheers,
Dave.