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Does anyone know what kinda of paint they use on the interior of aluminum boats? You know the rough speckly stuff. Or how to get it and how easy it is to apply? Ussually its a grey blue or grey black color.
Thuggin4Life said:Does anyone know what kinda of paint they use on the interior of aluminum boats? You know the rough speckly stuff. Or how to get it and how easy it is to apply? Ussually its a grey blue or grey black color.
fisherman1042 said:Well the prep is the most important, I have had a lot of failures with all kinds of paint, believe it or not the best success was with a good exterior acrylic latex and Zinsser bullseye 123 primer. This was a budget job that has outlasted anything else I used. The key is prep, most paints react with the aluiminum and will start peeling off, Zinc cromate is the best but is hard to get in small sizes, Another is bed line paint that is water based, Plastikote from walmart, primer was Zinsser bulls eye. The bed line paint has large rubber particals that can be filtered out with paint filters for a smoother finish.
SNDSLGR said:Zolotone is the name of the stuff commonly used on all big name sleds and drift boats. Its great stuff but I have heard that proper prep is very important.
fisherman1042 said:Well the prep is the most important, I have had a lot of failures with all kinds of paint, believe it or not the best success was with a good exterior acrylic latex and Zinsser bullseye 123 primer. This was a budget job that has outlasted anything else I used. The key is prep, most paints react with the aluiminum and will start peeling off, Zinc cromate is the best but is hard to get in small sizes, Another is bed line paint that is water based, Plastikote from walmart, primer was Zinsser bulls eye. The bed line paint has large rubber particals that can be filtered out with paint filters for a smoother finish.
Thuggin4Life said:Yeah I need to start working on the boat or at least buying supplies. Think I want to use the zolotone for interior paint though.