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Enamel paint question

Brettly-2008

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Hi all,

Just finished painting an outboard engine cover using genuine Yamaha silver blue metallic paint. I assumed it was an acrylic paint but a bit of online research reveals it's enamel product, so I went and brought an enamel clear and threw on a couple of coats. It looks ok, but nothing flash. My experience is only acrylic so I'm wondering about compounding/polishing enamel. Or is enamel set and forget.
 

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Yeah you can cut and polish enamel..main issue is its a soft paint which takes about 16 years to fully dry :) give it a couple of mths to harden before you hack into it
 

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Damn Wozza, I wish you posted this earlier as I got stuck into a section over the weekend and made it look worse. Still, it looks 10x better than it did. Cheers.
 

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Next time you use enamel use a hardener with it.
I sprayed my boat with enamel and hardener left it for a week cut it back with 2000 wet and dry to remove the orange peel polished it and it came up like a mirror.
That was 15 months ago and it still looks the same.
 

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The Yamaha paint came in a rattle can so I wasn't able to add anything to it.

Yeah I've got acrylic paint to come up like glass many times using the same method as you ie 2000 grit and compound polish. Satisfying, if annoying work.
 
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