Hi,
I’ve got a 1973 Hunter compact jr that I am renovating. This is my first ever trailer and when I bought it I thought it just needed a
paint job and some cosmetic enhancements. Turns out I gutted the whole thing and started from the beginning. I’m okay at some basic woodworking but everything else I’m YouTube and reading these forums.
Previous owner painted with some bad house
paint. I removed all of the old
paint and I am now at the original gel coat (yellow). There is already some bondo fixes from previous owner and a few larger
fiberglass cracks that need fixing. Because of this I am going to prep and repaint the trailer with Interlux brightside.
My question:
The gel coat is already pretty thin in a lot of areas. The gel coat also has a lot of knicks and gouges from paint scraping. I wanting advice on how to sand the gel coat in preparation for interlux pre-kote primer. A couple auto body shops told me to sand with 320- grit and then prime. I called interlux and they told me to sand with 120 grit and then prime, as their primer isn’t likely to stick to 320- grit. I’ve read various opinions on this forum and it seems like 320-400 grit seems to be popular.
Because my gel coat is thin, I feel like I’ve got one chance and don’t want to screw up
Should I go with 120 like interlux rep told me? Should I hand sand or use my random orbital sander? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Pics are attached, I think.
Thanks!
Jeff