[Alberg30] mast painting

[Mike Lehman]

Many years ago I decided to paint our mast. The paint of choice was Imron. 
As with most painting projects, the preparation was the most time consuming 
and laborious part. Our mast had not been painted before. The anodizing was 
not a concern, since I was going to paint over it, in effect add a different 
type of barrier coat. Ideally you would remove all of the hardware from the 
mast prior to painting, I did not. Holes can be filled with metal filler 
readily available at auto parts stores and sanded. The entire mast needed 
extensive sanding. Then there were several sets of primer and etching 
solutions before the finish coat was applied. The prep took a long time, the 
painting did not. I applied the paint with a brush starting at the top. My 
reasoning was, that by the time I got close to the deck, I would have the 
painting process perfected and would eliminate most of the brush strokes. I 
don't care about brush strokes up high, because you need to go up in a 
bosun's chair to see them, and I ain't doin' that! The last piece painted 
was the boom, I was getting better by then.

Lessons learned:

1.Allow plenty of time
2.Plan to do a lot of prep work
3.Use only the best two-part paint
4.Practice on areas you won't see

Conculsion:

After 15 years the job, although dinged up a bit, still looks good, and is 
protecting the mast.


----Original Message Follows----
From: "sousa, stephen" <sousa_stephen at emc.com>
Reply-To: public-list at alberg30.org
To: "'public-list at alberg30.org'" <public-list at alberg30.org>
Subject: RE: [Alberg30] mast painting
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 08:22:53 -0400

Peter,

I am in the process of preparing #114 for an Awlgrip paint job. From the
research that was done over the last 30 days my findings are as follows.
Imron (Dupont) and Awlgrip seem to be the best two part paints on the
market. If I were redoing the mast, prime with a chromate primer and use
Awlgrip with brushable catalyzing agent and reducer. I would not compromise
the finish with a single part paint. You can visit www.uspaint.com
<http://www.uspaint.com>  which provide a great deal of information, I found
the folks at West Marine at not paint experts.

Regards,
Stephen


  -----Original Message-----
From: Peter Amos [mailto:peter.amos1 at btinternet.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 12:51 AM
To: public-list at alberg30.org
Subject: [Alberg30] mast painting



Next season,January for me, I intend to have the mast taken down.One of the
jobs to be done is repainting.The paint on it now appears to be a single
coat of something thin,like Awlgrip,probably the original finish. There are
lots of bare patches where the wire halyard has worn away the paint film.I
would like to sand it to provide a key but I don't know if sanding would be
enough to allow something like Easypoxy to take and if sanding would damage
the anodising.Also there are some redundant screw holes to be filled.Would
Metaltex be O.K. or might it push through when sanded?

Peter Amos
Tait Tait #478



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