[Public-List] varnish

[Timothy Erwin]

   Hello from Texas

   I bought in to the Bristol Finish baloney. I did every thing by the
   book,proper prep, 5 coats and sanded between each. They say that their
   product lasts at the least double the time of conventional varnish.
   This lousy stuff han not even lasted as long as conventional
   varnish.Now to add insult to injury, this junk has to be mechanically
   sanded off since its two part urathane.


   I've always used traditional spar varnish with uv filters and some
   tung oil. A twice a year touch up and everything always looked great.
   Why in the world would I have fallen for this BRISTOL FINISH GIMMIC? I
   guess the promise of less application frequency and the fact that
   Hinkley yachts come with this stuff.


   As for me, I'm going back to tradition.    Tim Erwin     SONSY  # 200












   --- On Mon, 5/5/08, FINNUS505 at aol.com <FINNUS505 at aol.com> wrote:

     From: FINNUS505 at aol.com <FINNUS505 at aol.com>
     Subject: Re: [Public-List] varnish
     To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
     Date: Monday, May 5, 2008, 10:02 AM
In a message dated 5/5/2008 7:47:34 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
laughing_gull at verizon.net writes:

have not  tried putting the epoxy under it. Does that allow for the wood to 
breath  enough? traditional varnish actually breathes a bit, and this was one 
of the  gripes about the Bristol Finish type varnishes - that it eventually 
some water  got under it, and caused blistering.


That is an interesting consideration. I thought the idea of the epoxy was  to 
seal the wood, so that no water could penetrate the porous varnish surface,  
and so that was why a varnished finish protected that way would last longer 
than  just plain varnish.
 
The reason I had to do wood down and redo my  main hatch was that the  
varnish was blistering in a few spots. The blisters were not pierced; they were
 
small areas where the varnish had lifted off the wood. That is precisely what I
 
am trying to avoid with this new system. Ggeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzz! :)
 
Lee 
Stargazer #255



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