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    Posted: 15 Nov 06 at 7:29pm
i dont but i re paint mine every few months i get bored of the colours!

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Do people lacquer there foils after they have been sprayed to protect the finish?

 
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I'm using quick drying, oil based interior/exterior "one coat" white gloss.  The sort of paint you can get in your local DIY store.  It works a treat.  I brush it on and don't worry about the brush marks because I wet&dry it the next day.  Looking around the dinghy park this weekend my foils were as good as anybodys and many times better than most - until we hit the concrete groin that is.
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Is nobody using AwlCraft or Emron?  Are these too hard and, therefore, too prone to cracking?
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Blast, I've just refurbished mine with acrylic primer!  I'm now going to spray with aerosol primer and finish with a aerosol gloss and cut back with wet and dry.
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2-pack will go over existing 2-pack, gelcoat or epoxy with no problems. Anything else you may well have problems. One thing to remember: if you paint your foils with acrylic primer, it will absorb water and dirt very rapidlyand need refinishing much more often. If you flat the foil really well with 1200 grit wet& dry, you will be fine with one coat of 2-pack sprayed on then polished. I would use automotive paint rather than the stuff International or Blakes sell - it's harder, more durable and covers better. Cheaper too!
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my dad has just got his foils painted and they look new the finish is superb what he did was to sand them down so they were perfect and then he got a car sprayer to paint them. £10 it cost him not bad i say
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Can 2 pot poly go on top of any old paint surface or will it make it "shrivel"?
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For a really good job on a foil you're going to be sanding all the top surface off to get down to a burnished finish anyway, so I would have thought that the roller and brush would be plenty good enough.

For support I suggest you screw a wooden block to the end of the foil and clamp that in a workmate or whatever, and finish the end and screw holes separately.

I've almost always used two pot poly, but I know pros who use neat epoxy with or without white pigment in it.

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Most boatyards spray yachts these days so it shouldn't be too difficult to find someone who will spray your foils for you.

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