Painting Pontoon Sheet Metal

25 pontoon boat 419 99 covers 70ft 30 pontoon boat 479 99 covers 80ft the picture above is a customer s boat where they used the champagne replacement fence paneling.

Painting pontoon sheet metal.

We originally sold vinyl. In many cases it resulted in a puckered look as the vinyl. Unlike metals do not react well with each other and a bottom paint that contains copper will end up eating away at the aluminum similar to how salt would pit or corrode the hull over time if it hadn t been protected in the first place. Sheet metal should be unrolled and flattened out in a safe area upon arrival.

This pontoon boat rail skin is the same metal used by most oem pontoon manufacturers. We ve been selling replacement pontoon fence paneling for twenty years. They also did a great job cleaning the pontoon boat tubes with our sharkhide. Aluminum colored rivets 50 pack 10 79.

I hit harbor freight and picked up an hvlp sprayer. Many bottom paints contain a copper oxide but pontoon owners should avoid these. This is not a flat aluminum. But we discovered it expanded and contracted in the sun.

24 tall x 20 long 030 thick fence paneling 109 24 tall x 60 long 030 thick fence paneling 295 the same thickness as new boat builders use. Sheet metal extraction tool. Consequently it should be screwed or pop riveted into the fence. Imperial embossed corrugated pontoon boat replacement fencing.

Vinyl skin edging. This is not a house flashing product. We stripped our to metal used body hammers and dollies to bang out most of the dents and then skimmed with body filler and then put on five coats of primmer filler on sanding the first two down to metal again to fill low spots then lighter sanding the next three coats. It was easy to work with and inexpensive.