Does anybody know anything about this? Polyaspartic coatings? I just came across it at my day job, for concret floors.
7500 psi, water clear, uv stable, high gloss. Pot life 15 minutes, and full cure in an hour.
please do a test panel and let us know. cost? how is it applied? 15 min could be a race.
I found a supplier in Florida. He can ship me a quart for $40.00. Larger quantities would be less per ounce. But it sounds like a super hard gloss coating. Normally it is used for high traffic industrial floor coating, where forklifts and heavy equipment are used. Brush or roller applied. I think I can roll out a surfboard in fifteen minutes no problem. After I do a try, I’ll post up the supplier. No sense in flooding his in-box if it doesn’t work.
Otherise p.m. me and I’ll pass it along.
Poly Aspartic coatings adhesion to fiberglass would be suspect. I think the manufacturer is Spartan out of Golden Co. They make a ton of floor sealers and treatments, they have epoxy coatings , poly, linear, 2 part, waterborne etc.
I’m assuming the material need to bond to the surface to work, or the initial coat need to bond to the surface. It would be interesting to see if it could buff out like an automotive finish. I don’t have high confidence that rolling it or brushing it would produce a professional result.
And while were on the automotive finish, what wrong with doing that? Automotive clear coats dry is about 20 min. You can buy a quart of about 40$ or less, and it looks like a car finish when you are done (if you know what you are doing). Buffs out like nothing else…even better than a poly gloss…yes i just said it…beter than a poly gloss.
several manufacturers. Spartain only sells to you if you go to Colorado, and they teach you how to use it. Smalley and Company sells L&M Construction Chemicals brand to anyone. I think it should work over epoxy lamination, since it can be used as a top coat over epoxy basecoats.
As to why? Probably because I’m stupid, and if there is a harder way to do something, I’ll try it! But really, the 7500 psi compression strength, along with not being brittle has me interested. Also UPOL is $20 a can for 16 oz. and spray is sooo toxic. This is a high solid, paintable. Also by UPOL boards dull with use, and dragging it across the sand, etc. This might hold the shine longer.
The product sounds interesting. Looking forward to your findings.
Bill
Maybe it’s me? Bt I can get a gallon of UPOL or other 2 part clear coats for about $100. I have boards that are 5 years old and they still shine. I’m not one to drag my boards across the sand? I usually carry them under my arm…but then that’s just me.
2 part clear coats & paints are extremely durable, ask boat manufacturers, and NASCAR drivers. As for the toxic level. well yes. Those that spray and don’t wear a mask and protective gear are looking for trouble. 2 part sprayed with a decent HVLP gun, set up correctly… over spray is virtually non existent.
Don’t get me wrong. If this product works I’ll be all over it. But at $40.00 per quart wheres the cost / benefit increase? Also, I can work fast, but a pot life of 15 imns is pretty fast, that means you have a work time of…what like 8-10 mins?
Better yet, make a board and tell us?
The plan is to have a couple done by Plaskett.
Cordura fabric/ epoxy with polyaspartic gloss. Run them into the bolders at willow and see what happens.
Phistfer valves, Ball Bearings and 40 weight motor oil. Layered with a dual adjusting cantalever quad jet…then you can self- aspartic with enjoyment. But beware of the Plaskett Racoons. Rooster self-asparticated from enjoyment 3 years ago, and he woke up next to a large racoon, with a roll of quarters in his pocket and complaining about a sore rectum?
Um… well,… I didn’t… exactly… find the role of quarters… um … in my pocket…
bwahahahaha
Hilarious
Yellows better than Poly too.