Having had a lot to do with boats for many years, I have got to say your method of antifouling your prop is probably the worst I have ever seen, you would actually be better off leaving it uncoated. If you don't want the cost of propspeed or similar products which you can do yourself and certainly cost a lot less than $300.00 I would just use a hard antifouling. Before Propspeed we used hard antifouling for years and in some ways If you are prepared to give it a wash every six weeks it will actually last longer than Propspeed. If using Propspeed you must be meticulous with the prop preparation or it will fail.

Serb1980 said..
I think the question here is will 30 bucks of zink and a bit of epoxy do any good to the prop? It think it will. So why not to apply it?
Those 350 bucks that I need to pay professionals to apply the speedprop I prefer to use it to pay a diver every 50 days to take a dive and keep my hull and prop clean.
It is the worst and the cheapest way to keep salt out of my prop but it is better than nothing..

Salt will not harm your prop. Dissimilar metals and electronics will. Zinc is also sacrificial, the same as the anode you should have on your shaft.

Going to bunning now, I will try to add black teeths. If prop looks like shark probably all lithe sea creatures will run away....
It is worth trying ....

LooseChange said..

Ramona said..

There is no Zinc in Bronze unless the Bronze has been made out of non virgin materials with unknown alloys.

It's generally called dezincification and is clearly visible once the prop has been hit with a disc sander. I see it regularly on the slips. One boat lost a blade off his prop just traveling a few hundred yards from his mooring to the slips. The remaining stub of the blade had about 10mm circle of bronze, the rest was like cheese.


If you use a hammer to check the tone just be gentle!

Was this at the start -

"Tigers, before I put my new prop into the shaft would the prop benefits from 3 coats of clear pain in can from repco? it works well on my outboard!

Appreciate your opinions

Serb"

Change of product, change of store and not a lot of a appreciation......?

haha, I get the feeling Serb is doing a bit of trolling, and not the fishing kind..