<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">Yeah, They are very nice and helpful. You can drop my name if you like !! They were bought by Sherman-Williams but they have retained their original formulas . With the hardener part of the linear polyurethane you need to use it in a timely manner, don't buy it and let it sit around for a long time. Also if you use like half of it and leave it in the container for a long time it will crystallize or get hard and unusable. But if you do want to keep it for an extended period of time , they advised me to put it in glass jars with as little air as possible and keep cool. Probably the same advise for the epoxy hardener. </FONT></FONT><DIV><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">I had to dawn a full faced facemask and scuba gear to get the back of my tube part of my sub painted - serious toxic fumes ! for the whole inside painting of the sub actually. I used brush and rollers - Spraying would be really difficult for a number of reasons. </FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Brian Cox</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Anacapa Marine Research </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><BR></FONT><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">From: Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Silicone</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:00:30 -1000</SPAN><BR><BR><DIV dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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!<DIV>Rick</DIV></DIV><BR><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><DIV dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 7:52 PM Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><DIV style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><FONT size="2" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">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) </FONT></FONT><DIV style="font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><FONT size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><FONT size="2">Brian</FONT></DIV><BR>--- <A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A> wrote:<BR><BR>From: Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>><BR>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>><BR>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Silicone<BR>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:09:53 -1000<BR><BR><DIV dir="ltr">Thanks guys<DIV>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. </DIV><DIV>Jon, let me know if you can locate what you were talking about and David, go ahead and send me your contact in Cal.</DIV><DIV>Thanks again</DIV><DIV>Just had another pretty big earthquake but no Lava this time</DIV></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 4:50 PM Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><DIV><DIV style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif;font-size:16px"><DIV><SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN>Rick,</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><SPAN>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.</SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><SPAN><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><SPAN>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.</SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><SPAN><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><SPAN>Jon</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR><BR></DIV><DIV style="display:block"> <DIV style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif;font-size:16px"> <DIV style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <DIV dir="ltr"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial"> <HR size="1"> <B><SPAN style="font-weight:bold">From:</SPAN></B> Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>><BR> <B><SPAN style="font-weight:bold">To:</SPAN></B> Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> <BR> <B><SPAN style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:44 PM<BR> <B><SPAN style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Silicone<BR> </FONT> </DIV> <DIV><BR><DIV><DIV><DIV dir="ltr">Thanks Ian<DIV>I know there are a lot of boats out there that are painted so was surprised to not get any feedback. </DIV><DIV>Sherwin-Williams here on the big island said that they don't have anything that will work for an underwater application. </DIV><DIV>Rick</DIV></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR></DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV>_______________________________________________<BR>
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