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Another paint question
Posted by:
Bob Jaszczak
(---.nwmnsa.com)
Date: December 21, 2015 11:56AM
Hello everyone. A friend of mine has asked me to repair some salmon mooching rods. They are two piece gloomis, heavy power, moderate action 10'6" rods. The top sections are OK, but the bottom sections have pretty big chunks of paint missing. He wants me to put a clear coat over the entire bottom section of the rod as they are, missing paint and all. I am very concerned that without decent prep, they are going to look terrible, and worse yet, the clear coat will not stick. I am not too enthused about stripping the paint off of them as that process would be new to me and it seems like it would be a lot of work.
This leads to several questions. 1. Have any of you tried putting a clear coat over a surface that includes both paint and naked graphite? If so, how did it work out? 2. How nasty a job is it to strip the paint off? If it was just one rod, I would not be too concerned, but he has 12 of them that are in the same condition and if it is a big job, I don't know that I want to tackle it. Thanks much Re: Another paint question
Posted by:
Rob Warren
(---.east.dsl.telkomsa.net)
Date: December 22, 2015 08:38AM
Hi Bob
I agree that the rod will look terrible Particularly on a decent Loomis blank. I have the same rod on my lathe at the moment. I used the following process to strip and recoat the blank 1)Used a stanley blade(craft knive) to remove the damaged paint Make sure to keep the blade at 90 deg to the blank and then use a scrapping motion to get rid of the old coating.Scrape only small amounts at a time.I have been using this method for many years and find that with graphite blanks there will be no damage to the surface.This should take about 45 minutes.(don`t get lazy and angle the blade this will surely damage the graphite) 2)a light wetsand with 400grit wd paper 3)Mask,prep and clear coat 3 coats @ 75 microns(I use a small hvlp touch up gun) 4)for additional quality I will sometimes apply a 4th coat then wetsand after curing with 1200 grit wp and the polish the blank with finishing cream As there are 12 rods to do this process will save you at least half of the time it takes to ``touch up`` the rods Regards and many happy`s for the season Re: Another paint question
Posted by:
roger wilson
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Date: December 22, 2015 11:05AM
Just one note to add to Rob's comment.
I do a similar procedure to what Rob uses. However, when I scrape the blank to remove finish or paint, I scrape only from the butt to the tip. The graphite fibers run from the butt to the tip of the rod. If you scrape only from the butt to the tip, you don't run the risk of catching a graphite fiber with the blade, and peeling it up and off of the rod. Good luck Re: Another paint question
Posted by:
Bob Jaszczak
(204.221.144.---)
Date: December 26, 2015 09:59PM
Thanks guys. I will give it a go and hope for the best. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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