When it comes to panting aluminum sand clean then the most important thing is self etching primer for aluminum without this step it will peel. Then you can use normal two part automotive paint. Just keep up the good work enjoy watching your builds.

@BBuford

2 жыл бұрын

I would suggest using a marine grade coating instead of a automotive paint. May help with durability and prevent corrosion on the air/water line better.

@rumplesmootheskin586

2 жыл бұрын

Etch primer and two-pack marine coating is the way to go

@MIUBHI007

2 жыл бұрын

Most etch primers are one part and even when cured (for a year or more) lacquer thinner will wipe it off like you just sprayed it. If anything use a 2 part acid wash. It won’t come off like that as it actually etches into the metal. Rattle can etch primer is very deceiving.

@MW-gv9vz

2 жыл бұрын

Look up gator glide for painting pontoons. Tiny boat nation has good video.

@icreatemyowngoodluck

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the advice . I was thinking about that also

I really enjoy your channel. You're the only genuine KZreadr I follow. One request, stop apologizing for your mistakes. Shit happens. Laugh, learn and move on. God bless.

@longjohn77

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anne6621 you can tell he was brought up right.

@ClaytonH1975

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he was close to some Canadians when he was brought up. We apologize for everything lol

for future reference next time you want to paint aluminum go to sweets paints over off 42nd street Winter Haven and get an aluminum etching primer then you can use pretty much any paint you want over it. hope that helps for your future endeavors

Watching you do all the cleanup on those pontoons gives me a whole new appreciation for not living or boating anywhere near salt water.

Could you do a curved or angled front on it to use the extra length from the third pontoon? That might be a neat idea. Great job so far Zach!

@sjkmpz

2 жыл бұрын

I like this idea. Larger front deck and it won’t look weird with 1 toon hanging further out. This comment needs more likes. Hope he sees it

@ziolan8970

2 жыл бұрын

I came here to say this

I painted my aluminum jon boat with Rust-Oleum and made sure to use their primer first and just rolled it on with a paint roller and you didn't even have to spray it and it worked out fantastic. I floated that Jon boat through some pretty gnarly stuff and it never peeled. Obviously if you hit a rock it'll scratch but that's just the nature of the game.

@fredericrike5974

2 жыл бұрын

Rust- Oleum also akes a line of "machinery paint"- I've scratched with a hammer but it is tough! Put it on by the label! FR

When you use aluminum bright do it small sections and have you a bucket with soapy water and spray the brighter on it and use a brush scrub it and rinse it you will have better results

Before you paint aluminum you should use vinegar on the aluminum to etch the aluminum so that the paint sticks better. Also rhino liner will tear up the banks on the trailer. You do a really Good job on every video you've done. Keep up the Awesome work.

The painted toons look badass af. turned out amazing

"Centertoon" - that gave me a chuckle. :) As others may have said... etching primer and two part automotive paint. Looking forward to the finished product!

Cool thing about using that rustoleum paint is you can always re-hit a spot when it scratches, BAM, back in black! Nice work!

You need to do a pop up camper remodel next!

@robertmcgrath8581

2 жыл бұрын

Install one on the pontoon lol

Very cool project! Looking forward to the next installment!

Note to self, never buy an older pontoon from anywhere close to sea water. My 88 Harris don't even have pitting like that.

I worked at a shipyard and used epoxy paint on the hull of some ships that had aluminum hulls. It was also used to keep barnacles off too. I bet this one will look twice as good as the other one.

@Cassandrea007

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree. Saw a video the other day where a guy used this on an aluminum jon boat in Florida. They also make a super slick epoxy paint and that boat went on and off trailer like one push was all it took. Also color options available.

Zach, I agree with a lot of the comments here about the primer and paint. It needs the proper primer or it’ll fail every time. It doesn’t help that the previous owner left it in the water 🤦🏽‍♂️... I agree that spray-on Bed-liner would add more drag than what you’re already going to have so use that filler to smooth it all and then prime and paint. Good luck with the rustoleum.

His attention to detail is pretty amazing. Good work!

Your energy and determination is amazing. You are going to go places, young man

you've restored every tiny piece of this thing... great work.

Total boat makes an aluminum anti-fouling primer and paint for pontoons. The primer is a two part epoxy that fills in pitting an imperfections.

Every project you do is better than the last. I love it all, keep up the great work.

I think a roll around engine hoist would be generally helpful in your shop. An essential shop tool!. Just general lifting jobs!

@mickeydavies1229

6 ай бұрын

Or a tractor with forks......

Absolutely no doubt this one will be even better than your first Toon. Can't wait to see the new ideas you'll come up with to her to maximum party barge condition.

Love these boat videos! Keep it up your doing great 👍

Looking great! Really enjoying this rebuild series. I am really interested in finding out how that center storage stays dry or drains.

You hooked me! Love your vids man! Keep up the great work! Love the honesty and trial and error.

I live In the City far from waters. I don’t fish. Never drove a boat. BUT I’m super intrigued by this build!! Can’t wait to see it finished!

I’ve been waiting for this vid! Keep up the good work

Self etching primer is amazing I use it all the time on aluminum. Just lite fog coats not solid coverage

There's an aluminum wheel cleaner for non coated aluminum wheels and it'll make if shine just like new one. I don't remember brands we use to use, but most gave the shiny aluminum look, a few gave to dull results like you got. There was no scrubbing or polishing needed either. It was spray and rinse.

The longer middle pontoon makes it look super cool. Like a triceratops or something

you need marine grade paint and primer made for aluminum. the broken off fins were probably weakened by corrosion and would have broken during use.

The painting time lapse brings me great satisfaction haha

I see way more ppe on KZread than I did ten years ago and it makes me very happy.

Dude… I give you a ton of credit for figuring all this out. Great channel.

Excellent jackstand work! This was a a lot of grindin'

I 100% admire your bravery and creativity. Your attitude to find solutions and overcome adversity is just fantastic! Keep up the great work bud 🙌🏻👍🏼

Star bright is a great brand for algea removal products, great videos as always!!

I would have taken advantage of fixing the trailer since the boat was completely disassembled.Keep those videos coming!!! Cheers from Panama!

@ultimaterebuilds7127

2 жыл бұрын

Future episode

'2 Tri-Toon 2 Quit' would be my name for Party Barge 2.

Really enjoying this and learning a lot. At 67, still learning. Moving from CA to NC/SC and now my wife wants a pontoon. We have friends on the Colorado River with one. My wife fell in love… it’s her style after growing up on sailing yachts. Would it be better to buy good, used toons and start from scratch? Finding a pontoon craft with good pontoons is not easy nor cheap. And yes, I’d like a tri-toon. Regardless, I don’t mind the labor. I just work slow. Wish I was your age again. Last question: What is a good width for a pontoon boat that works well towing on two-lane mountain highways? Keep putting these on utube. I love watching other people work, watching grass grow, fishing bobbins lay still…

That’s called T-Tracks and you would use T-Bolts in the T-Tracks then use a nut with washer.

Good stuff on a budget man! Personally, I'd avoid coating anything with a bedliner product. It's a coating at the end of the day and what it will do eventually is encapsulate an and all moisture that may have passed thru any pin hole or crack, scratch, whatever. Thusly allowing parts to essentially rot from the inside keeping it unseen. Paint prep is everything in painting anything! The better you prep & clean, the better the results. I like where your mind is so far. Looking forward to the final product.

Rhino Liner is pretty easy to put on there and works great in truck beds.

Bedliner is REALLY heavy and the drag would slow you to a crawl. Like not just slow, REALLY slow. TotalBoat makes a paint specifically for aluminum in a marine environment. Probably twice as expensive as automotive paint, but I've never had a bad experience with totalboat products. Plus, they hand out sponsorships like crazy, maybe you could work something out :)

Add a product called gator glide on the pontoons. It’s made for aluminum boats and should stay on there for a really long time. A lot of airboats and mud boats use it to make it easier to slide across vegetation easier so should work awesome for this application. I have it on my own boat and have no complaints.

Make sure to use an etching primer that is specific for Aluminum. Then follow it with a paint mixed as a "high build" to help fill and level the pitting. Getting a few IR lamps and "baking it" a section at a time, as your paint it would likely improve your paint life and the coverage quality. Color is a choice of the paint buyer- wouldn't touch that with your ten foot pole! Prepaint the areas where the "thwarts" are mounted along the pontoon and try for as much paint under them as feasible- the best deal would be to think about "encapsulating" the aluminum to slow the corrosion. Check with a marine chandlery for some small anodes to affix to the pontoons as in "sacrificial anodes". When you redeck it, use real marine grade plywood if you can- it will out last the rest of the pontoons life- the decking you took off was "treated for use in damp or wet areas", not marine grade plywood. For power, I'm thinking an American V8 driving an 8' air prop- ought to go like stink, keeps all the power out of the water and will travel on wet grass! that honking big pontoon boat would look wild sailing through a lake of saw grass! Up the Algorithm! PS; you already have a bunch of "thin spots" in the sheet aluminum- including above the water line. Paint it all and do what ever you can to gain corrosion protection. Paint to the water line is purely cosmetic- you need the lowest edge of the finish well above the "wet line"- a vey likely reason you've had peeling issues. FR

they make "gel coat" in any colour for aluminium. copper and marine steel. Then any old marine paint over and a clear coat and you have a nice 10+ finish that only needs the paint layer once in a while, as the "gel coat (epoxy marine compound)" well last a very long time.

You should install sacrificial anodes on the toons if they don't have any. Especially in salt water it helps prevent pitting. I worked on aluminum crew boats for years in the Gulf of Mexico and I know from experience that anodes work.

You’re a great youtuber! Love the videos, always look forward to your new uploads!

Is looking really good , i can't wait for the next video

Star Brite isnt an off brand. They actually have really good marine products.

@cup_and_cone

2 жыл бұрын

Ya, they're one of the few companies that isn't owned by a huge conglomerate.

Thanks for another great episode. Love the watercraft content!!!

Looks great so far! I think a small bow sprit and an anchor windlass would fit nicely on the front of the center pontoon.

I like the idea of the bedliner spray. Maybe they have that thick paint that they use with ocean vessals to prevent barnacles.

Nice Job.....especially installing that 3rd toon by your self!

Check out Vantage Pontoon Guards or pontoonguards. You can also add vinyl under them. I was trained by vantage to install them. I can say first hand they look amazing, and only take a couple of hours to install. I believe vantage is only available to dealers, but the guards and vinyl are manufactured by 3M, and are available elsewhere. For sure a great alternative to painting the aluminum.

If your going to paint the pontoons paint in with silverbrite it’s a marine aluminum paint by sherwin Williams. I used it a few times painting my trailer and it looks good every time. Make sure you wear gloves it’s a pain to get off your hands. But I highly recommend the paint

Silver/chrome Paint as a cover up might work.

my two cents...zinc chromate two coats then either a nice topside two part polyurethane and your bottom paint overlapping that ...cool boat looking forward to seeing what you do for the interior!

Wow looking really good.But IMO the bed liner is a great idea. Flex Seal paint would be good to and should last.

I think it would be extra cool to add a HydroFin system to make it get up and fly! Up to 50% speed improvement! Then for your next one, make a slow-speed electric pontoon powered by a full-length solar canopy and battery-bank with an Elco outboard.

There is a marine grade paint you can buy that is used on the bottom side of boats to help prevent corrosion and anything growing on it but it does rub away slowly over time and that’s what it is made to do.

Looks great! Make me want to get a tri toon

i like the pontoon rebuilds. looking to get one. to see the basics if need done. mine will be fishing not party but from bottom to deck is good to see! look forward to the next one!!!

Great job you always work hard and find solution keep the videos coming.

Nice job! Looking good so far. BTW... Your help will show up when you are ready to put her in the water for her maiden voyage!!!

After cleaning an etching primer followed by a two part, catalytically cured, epoxy paint would last much better than a single part spray paint. Even two part auto paints would work better than a single part paint like the Rustolium and there are even two part paints that come in spray cans; you simply pull a popper on the bottom shake to mix and spray. A two part clear coat would also add protection over the spray paint but wouldn’t aid in initial primer bonding. Some aluma-well sticks could aid in reattachment of the forward aluminum pieces, or Tig welding if available would be best, if you use the weld sticks just make sure to get the surface oxidation off as unlike AC Tig it won’t be removed during the process and will lead to a bad joint.

Love it

If that paint doesn't hold up, look up gator glide epoxy coating. It's meant for aluminum boats and comes with an aluminum primer. It's super slick and perfect for a boat that is going to run into sand

Great job on clean up ,paint them.patients always ask for help.

Raptor liner seems to be a good product if your going that route. You can get it in 15 or so colors.

Good job dude. Must be wreaked doing it all solo

Never hurts to have a friend over for an extra set of hands.

Nice job 👍🏾 looks great

Looking great!

Paint the pontoon pods two tone and they make s neat low profile rub rails for pontoons that you can separate the colors. It also will cover those pitted area at the water line. The material is vinyl if some sort.

I'm so glad that I've come across your channel and subscribed. I've been wanting to redo a pontoon for sometime and you have been an inspiration ! Thank you for the videos and can't wait to see how this one turns out !!

Wish I would’ve seen this when you did it gatorglide is some badass stuff

You are a really hardworking person keep them coming sir 👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Ya I think the raptor liner would be a good way to go

Your dedication to a project and lack of frustration is awesome. Unless that’s all off camera lol. Great work man

@ultimaterebuilds7127

2 жыл бұрын

The only thing I complain about is the heat 😂😅

@rick55fla

2 жыл бұрын

@@ultimaterebuilds7127 We just built a 28'x16' work area so we are out of the sun.

A guy told me I was being a profectionist. And then he said, no. You are being professional. Great job. Keep it up 👍👍

I would bring the front piece of plywood to a point so you don't cover the eyelets on the side toons but it still covers the whole center toon. It will also make it easier to nose it into tight places

Amazing job solo I do not have the patience you do I would have gotten frustrated and turned the pontoons into targets and shot them full of holes lol

Zack the black paint on this pontoon looks alot better than the first one you did I would have done colour on the top half of the black paint

If I guy was to paint it I would have done it with something like GATORGLIDE or something equivilent. Its really durable and will help with friction. There many colors also. But hey, your black paint job looked good too.

Line X Ultra is a smoother bed liner and you can choose different colors, like silver I believe!

Wait a Second Zach you are building a new pontoon boat. I’ve been super busy so I haven’t watched a lot lately. Update me please. Because you did a kick ass job on the first one this one out to be spectacular. Since you know what you’re doing now meaning you know what your doing now. Can’t wait to see it I learn something every time I watch you build. I’m gonna start on one this winter and have it done by spring I hope. Screw paying 40 $50,000

Could you use floor epoxy that you would use on like a garage floor? That stuff is super tough and you can get it in a high gloss version that seems like it would go through water without much, if any, drag. Btw, this thing would be sick with a 250 horse jet ski setup in it. Jet powered tri toons are awesome.

Keep the vids coming 👍 you’re doing great

In order to paint aluminum. You must use etching primer then regular primer. The etching primer bonds to the aluminum. God bless

Those fins would have fallen off any, as soon you would hit something while you were on the water. So good thing they did now.

whatever you do make sure you put a really good etching primer on and with tufdeck you can put a clear coat on

Should look into using* sharkhide metal protection! Used it while I was in the Navy . And building a few projects myself!

Does this kid work hiss ass off or what??? Great job, I'm totally enjoying this. Thanks for sharing. You deserve every penny you get from sponsors. God Bless!!

Love the video. Joy to watch

Gonna have to take all those deck beems off to slide the carriage bolts in the track

Self etching primer may help the paint stick.

Bed liner is a good safe bed just very time consuming.. it would help with corrosion and discoloring. It would all around protect it. There’s a place online monstaliner they sell different colored bed liner if you didn’t want black maybe a grey or silver color