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    Default Did you prime/paint your spars?

    Just curious it you primed your spars, if you did or didn't would be interesting to hear why.
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    Default Re: Did you prime/paint your spars?

    Yes, inside and out.
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    Default Re: Did you prime/paint your spars?

    Yup...inside and out over here. Overlapped on the epoxy varnish also.
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    Default Re: Did you prime/paint your spars?

    Primed mine with PPG Epoxy Primer
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    Default Re: Did you prime/paint your spars?

    Yes I used endura primer
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    Default Re: Did you prime/paint your spars?

    Primed inside and out. Living in California as you and I do, you will likely want to visit the coastline. Sprayed the outside and pored it into the inside with tennis balls to hold it in. I mixed up too much primer. One cup of mixed primer will do the job on one spar with plenty of left over. I mixed up about a half of a quart of primer then catalyst and reducer. Makes too much. Wasted plenty.
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    Default Re: Did you prime/paint your spars?

    Quote Originally Posted by Northof49 View Post
    Yes I used endura primer
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    Mike
    Are you using Endura’s fabric coating system?
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    Default Re: Did you prime/paint your spars?

    Primed inside and out with poly fiber white epoxy primer. Rigged an airbrush on the end of a piece of pvc to spray inside spar with a tennis ball on the end.
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    Default Re: Did you prime/paint your spars?

    No Josh
    I went with Oratex
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    Default Re: Did you prime/paint your spars?

    Quote Originally Posted by southwind32 View Post
    Just curious it you primed your spars, if you did or didn't would be interesting to hear why.
    Thanks
    Brian
    Yes, primed inside and outside. Australia is a large Island-Continent so flights along the coastline are a given ....
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