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crazycunuck

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Hi every body i am looking for advice on what type of clear coat i should spray as i am going to wet sand the deck and respray with clear any advice would really be helpful thanks Grant.:cheers:
 
crazycunuck said:
Hi every body i am looking for advice on what type of clear coat i should spray as i am going to wet sand the deck and respray with clear any advice would really be helpful thanks Grant.:cheers:
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Wish i could help ya, but at one point when i was asking a similar questions, i was told to ask a automotive paint shop that's done work on Corvettes. You could also try calling Checkmate themselves.
 
I've used Nason (dupont) clear (wear a mask - isocyanates), and have also recently tried por-15 glisten. It's expensive but has held up amazingly well on my polished aluminum exhaust manifolds and cures slow enough that I was able to roll it on a section. (I had a slight leak around one of the casting marks and had to have a local shop that builds wakeboard towers, t-tops, etc.. out of aluminum. He told me that I would have to have them re-cromed after he welded the litle piece and was shocked when I told him they were just polished and clear-coated). The POR chemistry is hmdi like awlgrip and imron and it's tough as nails. Should be in the same range of performance as imron once it hardens all the way. It seems to level out very well losing brush and roller marks over the first 24 hours. Note that it is NOT a fast cure, at least several days before using and a week or so to full hardness. If you get runs, they're not hard to sand and cut with a buffer in the first week. I'm going to try it on a repair I'm making on the transom area and will let you know how it comes out.
 
Any good automotive clear will work. The automotive paint supply store will be able to explain to you the different price points and hardness's of the clear.
 
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