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Post by suzieq2012 on Nov 13, 2014 16:14:09 GMT 10
Hi, I am finally going to get my Bondwood repainted & on the road again!
I have checked a lot of the threads for sealing the joints & this is what I found: NORSEAL 2 pak; BOTE-COTE; NORGLASS, SYLGLAS Tape, Selleys Platinum polyurethane adhesive; D-MASTIC; Petrolatum Putty or Tape for the JOINTS. I haven't found much on the type of paint used for the top coat (not planning on doing an undercoat as the old paint with a light sand should be OK). Other 1/2 said I should buy SOLARGUARD for the top coat as it is on wood rather than the metallic paint that I wanted to match the tow car.
Any up-to-date advice wld be appreciated. Cheers, Sue
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Post by seeshell on Nov 13, 2014 18:53:14 GMT 10
Hi Sue We redid our 1951 bondwood van, the Blue Flyer, and used all the "Nor" products. They can be used on boats - so far the paint has held up amazingly well. It is still lovely and glossy but it's much more flexible. Because it is flexible, it doesn't seem to get any microcracks which ultimately are entry points for water, and wood breakdown. We used Northane for the top coats which is a 2-pac and it was excellent to mix and work with. We used a gun, but had never done so before. It came out really well. But I think you could use the same product with a good quality low knap roller and get an equally good finish - it settles, and smoothes out. I think that some others have used the other Norglass paints - I have a feeling it might have been Geoff and Jude, and I think JBJ did as well for his Styleleader Olympic. They might be able to provide more information about other products. Just to be clear we did use their whole system because we had had some peculiar issues with paint not "taking/sticking" on the bondwood. We found it worked well, but you might not need to use everything. We used: 1. Staybond epoxy (think araldite) for gluing repairs in the bondwood - but cheaper 2. Norflex epoxy filler (easier to sand and more flexible than car bog to prevent popping out with movement) 3. Norseal wood treatment (under the paint, after repairs, to make it water tight) 4. Northane gloss off a gun (we were novices and it came out fine and looks like old type enamel finish) I freely recommend it to anyone. We did some trials too with Bote-Cote which is the prepping system, and they have paints as well. We went with Norglass over Bote-Cote only because they would tint the Northane to any Dulux colour, and Bote-Cote gave you 16 marine colours to pick from and wouldn't tint it. You can read about our paint process at: Blue Flyer Page. If you want to know about Bote-Cote, Franklin1 is the gent to talk to. He's done a full van in the prep products, and is quite a convert. If the colour choices suited you, I think it would work just as well. Also, Cobber Bob will be along shortly - he's got a lot of good information about acrylic paints for vans. But of course, it's all in the prep - the paint is really just the icing. The very pretty, very satisfying icing. Best of luck in your project, Seeshell
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Post by gilbert on Nov 13, 2014 20:46:22 GMT 10
I have done my globetrotter I used dulux 4 in 1 primer sealer then 3 coats of Dulux oil base paint
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Post by suzieq2012 on Nov 15, 2014 9:11:21 GMT 10
Thank you for your replies, "seeshell" I had read your posts over the past year or two, but this added info was also very helpful. Cheers, Sue
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