Misc. Accessories Epoxy, Pigment, Rollers, Paint Brushes

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SECTION I: Misc. Accessories

Paint rollers:

1) short nap epoxy rollers $6.50

- not needed for the thin waterbased Water Bond epoxy or our water Low V epoxy but all other epoxies are thick and sticky - they tend to pull the nap out of most of the 'regular' rollers. There rollers have short nap (as the epoxy gets thicker the nap gets shorter). Regular rollers can sometimes give you a 'fuzzy' floor.

2) short nap epoxy rollers (four 3 inch rollers with hard plastic core). $10. See above. Also for use with our boatbuilding marine epoxies.

3) special slotted foam roller for recoating pebble/epoxy deck surfaces $6.50

- these thick foam rollers have special vertical slots cut into them so that a pebble doesn't 'squeeze' out all the epoxy on either side of it along the roller.

4) $10.00 four 3 inch rollers $10.00 (the 3 inch rollers may shed some 'lint' initially if used with thick epoxies) Tough phonolic core.

5) Roller cage for 3 inch rollers $4.00 each

We like the 3 inch size because it is 1/3 the size of regular 9 inch rollers, the can be used in smaller spaces than the 4 inch rollers, and are useful without needing a roller pan. A favorite trick is to put vasoline (tm) on the key spots of the roller cage so that you can remove the roller pad from the cage before the epoxy/paint sets up.

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Epoxy Pigment Gel:

Now you can color your clear epoxy. Tint the epoxy so you can better see your application, or color it completely for a pigmented epoxy paint. I found it also makes a good stain by itself if mixed with solvent - about 8-12 parts of solvent to 1 part of pigment (yep, makes lots of 'stain'). Colors: tile red; chocolate brown; white; black. A bit of the brown and even less of the tile red - make a great 'dark wood' color. One quart will completely pigment 3 gallons of epoxy - except for the white which will only pigment about 1.5 gallons. To just tint your epoxy, you would probably be using just teaspoons of the pigment. I have also tried it in varnish, very pleased with the result! Sometimes we also have some 'safety yellow' in stock - email for info.

A little bit of our brown and/or red pigment (marine link / res. link) added to our clear epoxy sealer - ESP 155™ (marine link / res. link), traditional India Spar Varnish™ (marine link / res. link), or our 2 part LPU clear polyurethane - Acrylic Poly UV Plus™ (marine link / res. link), works like a high end stain on wood surfaces without the issues of compatibility. Tinting a first coat of a clear product (with white pigment for example) can mean fewer fewer topcoats of white paint. Also it is much easier to brush or roll on an even, uniform layer of coating when that coating is slightly pigmented instead of clear. It is very hard to see what you are doing when applying a clear coating.

1 quart $28

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Brushes -- 1 inch foam

These are those black foam brushes sold at craft stores etc. They don't last long, but very useful for a quick touch up, etc. and priced right. Please limit your order to 48 brushes (2 units) as we are not in the 'brush business" and don't have 'millions' of these in stock.

24 brushes - $8

The 2009 West Marine Catalog (page 206) sells these brushes for 79 cents each.

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Brushes -- 2 inch polyester bristle

Medium quality 2 inch wide polyester paint brushes. These are considered double thick (5/8 inch) with longer than usual bristle length (2 1/2 inch). I did some painting with a new brush and only three bristles come out. On a 1 - 5 scale I would rate these as 3.5 - 3.75. Cheap enough to toss if you're working with epoxies, nice enough to reuse if you're doing latex, varnish, or enamel. Limit 12 brushes pre order please.

6 brushes - $12

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Brushes -- "stab brushes" - 3 inch wide with 3/4 inch long bristles

Often when working with most epoxies you are more often pushing and stabbing the epoxy into cracks, low spots, etc, rather than actually brushing the epoxy. These brushes look like someone came and cut most of the bristles off the brush, leaving behind only 3/4 inch. Please limit your orders to 12 brushes or less. We are not a brush company and keep limited amounts in stock.

6 brushes - $12

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Pint Cans

Six metal pint cans with lids. Use when the resin - curing agent - other coatings, get near the bottom of the larger original container, or to divide product into smaller units, or for 'fresh and clean' repackaging.

6 cans/lids - $10

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Keep this handy plastic gauge in our tool/paint box to measure (in microns or mils) the thickness of your newly applied (still wet) coatings. Useful to compute coverage rates as well as film thickness.

This product has its own (how to use) web page - CLICK HERE.

$4.50 including postage in the USA

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Wood Veneer

Our wood veneer product is the ideal way to upgrade the appearance of a small boat deck, table, or tray in an easy and inexpensive way. Each sheet is 7 by 11 inches (grain runs the short dimension). It is thin enough to cut with a scissor or razor blade. The wood is cherry and its natural color is about that of new plywood, but it stains nicely, so any wood ‘color' is possible. There is an adhesive backing on the veneer sheets so you simply press and stick over a smooth clean surface, then seal (I suggest our India Spar Varnish. You can also use clear epoxy, but test first if you've recently used stain on the veneer. Sometimes the epoxies react to fresh stain). Whatever you use to seal and topcoat be careful it if contains solvents. They might dissolve the adhesive on the back of the veneer.

5 sheets - $12 including shipping in the USA

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Warm Tone Dye Solution

The trouble with modern clear coatings, like our two part Acrylic Poly UV plus LPU, or even single pack polys from the hardware store is that they look like plastic wrap on a surface. Traditional spar varnish (we sell India Spar Varnish) on the other hand the has a ‘warm' and natural amber tint. Unfortunately it can take a handful of coats of varnish to begin to really notice that ‘warm' tint.

"Warm Tone Dye Solution" can be added to any epoxy or solvent based clear coat to give it that warm, amber/yellow glow. Epoxies, including marine epoxies (like our Basic No Blush) need to be topcoated with paint or varnish for UV protection. With this new product you can give your epoxy a varnish tint even before you apply the varnish. Alternately, you could ‘darken' our India Spar Varnish (in the Non Epoxy/Urethane catalog section) so that it looks like 8 coats of varnish tinting with only one, two or three coats of varnish. Of course, you can also make your one or two part poly have that ‘warm' varnish feel too.

You have to experiment a bit on how much to add to your clear product, but a starting rule of thumb is about 1 oz of product per quart of clear finish.

4 ounce Crystalac bottle - $14.95

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Tongue Depressors

Box of 500 'senior' tongue depressors, each about 6 inches long by 5/8 inch wide. We use them all the time to mix small batchs of epoxy, to scoop out epoxy, scrape off epoxy from our tools, and for eating peanut butter straight out of the jar (and then sharing it with the dogs). In short, we find them extremely useful around the shop and suspect you will too.

500 tongue depressors - $15

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Pumps for 1.5 gal Basic No Blush and Low V epoxy only ---- $11.50 (two pumps)

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Gag Epoxy Spill Cup: