Cygnus White Gelcoat

[Av8erB]

Hi all,

Firt off, I feel bad I didn't post updates on my hardtop repair, it has been a learning experience and im sure others would benefit. A little back story, there were some sunken in parts that I had to grind out the fiberglass and refill with a 2 part foam. After foaming I reapplied fiberglass fixed some corners, just a bunch of fiberglass repair really. It was all a lot of work. If anyone is curious of the full process I will make a post detailing everything after I'm done.

Currently I am in the finishing stages. I just finished applying USC garage fiberglass filler and glazing and am ready to gel coat. The problem that I'm having is that I don't know how to get cygnus white as a gelcoat color. I believe the manufactured hard tops came with a gelcoat so I don't want to just paint it cygnus white, I want it to be like OEM. Maybe I am not understanding the process though.

So my question is how do I get a cygnus white gelcoat or how do I use a gelcoat and still have a cygnus white color to the top?

 

[macdaddy59]

How are you going to apply the gel coat?

 

[JohnnyC]

your not going to find it in cygnus white.... unless you go to a fiberglasser who can mix it close then apply it for you

wouldnt hurt to ask Stevie at terratough in douglas arizona

 

[zerotreedelta]

As far as I could tell on my '76 (owned since new) when I stripped it, the cygnus is paint and not gelcoat. To be honest, that also seems more likely given the need to paint the driprail, and that also showed that it was painted after assembly (inside of the rail was primer).

Perhaps it varies by year...but I wouldn't get hung up on gelcoat IMHO.

 

[sogncab]

Gelcoat is horrific to apply to anything other than a mould.

You're better of priming and painting.

 

[Av8erB]

Thanks for the replies. I was honestly going down a deep dark rabbit hole about this whole gelcoat thing. It also seamed like a ton more sanding and boy have I done a ton of that with this project already.

 

[pbgbottle]

Gel coat is a biache to sand I would paint.
Last time I used gel coat I sprayed it with a shutz gun and it looked like rhino lining I skipped the sanding. . I’m sure that is not what you’re looking for lol. Gel is only nice if sprayed into a mold first. You can go to the plastic shop and get gel in various mixed colors and then you can play with mixing a few together yourself to color match what you are after. I mix a few colours together to get the color I’m after when fixing nicks and scratches on old boats.

 

[sogncab]

Gelcoat is used because it's cheap and easy to spray into a mold then layup other material over it.

You pull the part and it's ready to go typically.

It makes a good substrate for filler and paint though