Re: Jotun Penguard HB and Hardtop HB advice, please

Posted by Jeremy on
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I've rubbed the Penguard HB primer down now and have to say it's really pretty good stuff.  The high build allows for a fair bit of surface blemish covering, and it goes hard enough in 24 hours to dry sand without clogging the paper.  I found that the best results were from wet sanding, though, and managed to get a tolerably good surface after an hour or so's work.

I washed the hull down, let it dry thoroughly and have just spent a happy hour or so filling all the thousands of pinholes and bits of glass cloth weave print through with epoxy/Microlight 410 mix.  This seems to have worked better than I expected, as I was able to squeegee the fairly sloppy filler mix hard into the tiny imperfections.

Tomorrow, weather permitting, I'll wet sand it again, then put on a final coat of Penguard, maybe thinned down slightly so that I can get a more even coat.  I now have some of the solvent resistant rollers from SML, so will give one of those a try and report back.