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📝 I Hate Painting!
18 days ago by 🇬🇧 LazyFerret (
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Can't you put "feature" over the blemish like spot lights, or life belt etc?
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📝 I Hate Painting!
18 days ago by 🇬🇧 LazyFerret ( Able Seaman)
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I was having problems where varnish meets paint on the hull, as the varnish does not like paint over it, & the paint won't dry with varnish over it. Basically after 2 coats of varnish and 2 coats of paint done over a week, I had a perfect finish which I was very happy with, but about 3 days after the final coat it started to react... after a lot of research, I found I had to paint the bottom of the hull, leave it 6 weeks, then varnish down to the paint, then wait another 6 weeks to put a thin stripe along the join to cover any imperfections.
Happy now, but there was a lot of grumping when I had to strip it all back for the second time.
I was having problems where varnish meets paint on the hull, as the varnish does not like paint over it, & the paint won't dry with varnish over it. Basically after 2 coats of varnish and 2 coats of paint done over a week, I had a perfect finish which I was very happy with, but about 3 days after the final coat it started to react... after a lot of research, I found I had to paint the bottom of the hull, leave it 6 weeks, then varnish down to the paint, then wait another 6 weeks to put a thin stripe along the join to cover any imperfections.
Happy now, but there was a lot of grumping when I had to strip it all back for the second time.
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📝 I Hate Painting!
20 days ago by 🇬🇧 LazyFerret ( Able Seaman)
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Wow, I read this & thought I must have typed it without knowing. I feel your pain. I have a boat built by my dad many years ago, & I am renovating it from years of sitting in top of a cabinet. Its a Billings kit & unfortunately the wood had dried out so much, there are lots of splits in the hull. So after methodically rubbing it back to bare wood, sorting it out, I am going through the exact problems with painting. Thank you for making me no longer feel alone in this issue.
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📝 Adding a Reverse to Forwards Only ESC?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 LazyFerret ( Able Seaman)
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Assuming you are using normal DC motors, the easiest way I can see would need an extra channel to use a servo to swap the polarity of the wires to the motor. This could be done with 2 micro switches. It all depends on the currents drawn though.
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📝 Solder
10 months ago by 🇬🇧 LazyFerret ( Able Seaman)
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How old is your soldering iron tip, I find they age a lot quicker than solder. Like others I have many reels left over from my father, which I still use with no problem. Is the iron is too hot, it can cause the solder to ball up, as can a contamonated tip, like when someone has used it to melt plastic or burn wood!!!😊
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