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« on: December 08, 2019, 12:07:53 PM »
While my mast is down, I’m thinking about sprucing up the appearance of my unpainted, un-anodized mast because its looking tired. I’ve researched painting and it looks like it should have several coats of high-quality primer as well as several coats of high-quality top finish paint which is time-consuming including the time between coats, hard to have a clean environment out in a boat yard and both are fairly expensive. No point in doing it half-way right? I’ve read that, assuming a quality paint job, its common for chipping etc. after 5 or so years. I’ve also read that its not uncommon for corrosion to appear under the paint as evidenced by blistering.
A buddy with a ’93 C34 also took his mast down at the same time at our yard. His mast is painted. He doesn’t know when it was painted. For all he knows its original. It has some chips, scratches. It also has a bit of blistering around the bottom 6”.
While researching painting and looking in YouTube as well, I ran across someone that stripped very old paint off his aluminum mast, polished it and coated it with the EverBrite a clear coat product. The video was made several years ago and the poster has updated a few times saying it’s still looking really good several years ago. The mfg. says it never chips and it looks really easy to get a quality and you can apply several coats in one day. So, I’m strongly considering this since I’m not necessarily interested in color, just a nice looking, cared for mast.
Does anyone have experience with EverBrite or similar products on unpainted metal or any thoughts on this?
If interested in the video just search YouTube for Everbrite Mast. The mfg. site is www dot everbritecoatings dot com