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Re: Stripping the bottom

Posted By: david jonesPaul
Date: Thursday, 12 May 2005, at 7:46 a.m.

In Response To: Stripping the bottom (Paul Haggett)

Paul, Itook the advice of a local marine boat yard and used a regular commercial grade paint stripper called "Zip-Strip" in the yellow can and it worked well just washed the area that we stripped with lots of water at the end of the day. There is a stronger version of this product that comes in a blue can that is termed "Industrial Strength" but the local hardware store did not stock it and I dont know if it is rated for marine use on fiberglass. On the note of whipping out the trusty belt sander we tryed that too for a while but unless your really talented you are going to go thru the gel coat in places. I tryed that for about a half a day, thought I had areally good resporator, woke up the next morning looking and feeling like I had been on a three day tequilla drinking binjj.The bottom line is its not easy and it takes considerable time. Dave

Messages In This Thread

Stripping the bottom
Paul Haggett -- Thursday, 12 May 2005, at 6:46 a.m.

Re: Stripping the bottom
david jonesPaul -- Thursday, 12 May 2005, at 7:46 a.m.

Re: Stripping the bottom
phil -- Thursday, 12 May 2005, at 7:56 a.m.

Re: Stripping the bottom
John F. -- Thursday, 12 May 2005, at 7:57 a.m.

Re: Stripping the bottom
Ian Upton -- Thursday, 12 May 2005, at 8:17 a.m.

Re: Stripping the bottom
Bill -- Thursday, 12 May 2005, at 2:39 p.m.

Re: Stripping the bottom
Paul Haggett -- Thursday, 12 May 2005, at 4:36 p.m.

Get it blasted!
BillC -- Thursday, 12 May 2005, at 6:32 p.m.

Re: Stripping the bottom
Harv -- Thursday, 12 May 2005, at 10:02 p.m.

Re: Stripping the bottom
Paul Haggett -- Friday, 13 May 2005, at 6:43 a.m.