Float Sealer
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To: <murphy-rebel@dcsol.com> (Murphy Rebel)
From: Bob Patterson <bob.patterson@canrem.com>
Subject: Re: Float Sealer
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:00:10 -0400
It does clean up with a solvent - I think they were using straight
MEK (nasty stuff!). As far as I know, it IS paintable ...
Why do you want to fill the outside mandrel holes ?? This sounds
like
it would add a lot of weight, and be prone to falling out over time. One of
the builders did fill them with epoxy chromate, using a syringe, but it took
several repeats ... a LOT of work !
There should be NO inside mandrel holes, because the floats are
now built using tank rivets - a solid end.
The guys up here have just sprayed on a good coat of primer first,
then painted. If you use a High Volume-Low Pressure sprayer, this works
great - the old-fashioned high pressure sprayers tended to blow so hard
that the paint went right out of the holes again, instead of staying there
!!
The majority of floats are NOT painted - for fresh water, this is
not a big problem. They wash up nicely using automotive wheel spray polish.
Painting them looks nice, but adds a lot of useless weight. Unless they are
VERY well prepped, sooner or later the paint will chip off, and re-painting
just adds more weight...
Maybe you could fly 'em for a season, then decide - if nothing else,
this will help de-grease them thoroughly. :-)
....bobp
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To: <murphy-rebel@dcsol.com> (Murphy Rebel)
From: Bob Patterson <bob.patterson@canrem.com>
Subject: Re: Float Sealer
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:00:10 -0400
It does clean up with a solvent - I think they were using straight
MEK (nasty stuff!). As far as I know, it IS paintable ...
Why do you want to fill the outside mandrel holes ?? This sounds
like
it would add a lot of weight, and be prone to falling out over time. One of
the builders did fill them with epoxy chromate, using a syringe, but it took
several repeats ... a LOT of work !
There should be NO inside mandrel holes, because the floats are
now built using tank rivets - a solid end.
The guys up here have just sprayed on a good coat of primer first,
then painted. If you use a High Volume-Low Pressure sprayer, this works
great - the old-fashioned high pressure sprayers tended to blow so hard
that the paint went right out of the holes again, instead of staying there
!!
The majority of floats are NOT painted - for fresh water, this is
not a big problem. They wash up nicely using automotive wheel spray polish.
Painting them looks nice, but adds a lot of useless weight. Unless they are
VERY well prepped, sooner or later the paint will chip off, and re-painting
just adds more weight...
Maybe you could fly 'em for a season, then decide - if nothing else,
this will help de-grease them thoroughly. :-)
....bobp
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At 12:59 PM 10/13/98 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Bob,
Do you know if this stuff is paintable? Also how does it clean up?
Solvent? I'm still looking for something to wipe over the rivet rows to
fill the mandral holes. I want something I can wipe on and then wipe off
the excess with a rag. I don't want to have to fill each one individually.
Joel
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From: Bob Patterson <bob.patterson@canrem.com>
To: Murphy Rebel <murphy-rebel@dcsol.com>
Date: Monday, October 12, 1998 10:47 PM
Subject: Float Sealer
usuallyThe sealer that I discovered in Newfoundland a few years ago is
called: SIKA FLEX
they are at: 22211 Telegraph Rd., Southfield, MI 48034
sorry, don't have a 'phone no.
There are several curing times available - the guys down easthours.use the #241, which has an 8 hour cure, or the #240, which gives you 24It comes in a tube for a regular caulking gun, in gray or black.