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From: Lee Haefele (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 20 2007 - 05:19:30 EDT
There is a mix of Corn Starch, Drano & water that softens paint for scraping and doesn't remove gelcoat. The advantage to this mix over commercial removers is that it is water base. You keep several buckets of water around for safety and tool cleaning. Using scrapers with oil based removers is difficult as the tools gum up.
Lee Haefele
S/V Alesto 2
currently at St Lucia
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry DeMers
To: Don White
Cc: Live Aboard
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: lv-ab: Test
Don,
You made it to NW Wisconsin..been very quiet until now. Everybody must be paging through their new West Marine catalogs, trying to find the solution to a few problems on their respective boats.
I'll pose a question for all to ponder and help me out with. I'm removing 17 years worth of Micron CSC bottom paint..mostly ablated already, thru use and also a power washer. I now have a evenly brown and beige bottom, truly ugly. I am considering a sand blaster rental, using crushed shells or??? Is this a good idea, or would some other method be better? (One ocncern for me is that I am recovering from a torn rotator cuff from a shoulder dislocation, so have little upper arm strength now, but it is coming back gradually -this goofs up using a large right angle grinder on the remaining brown bottom paint for any lengths of time)
What material is readily available and sufficiently gentle to get the old paint off, but not remove the gel coat under normal use.
I was thinking of using a sharp scraper on a wooden extension handle, might be hard in my situation, but possible.
Cheers on the 2007 Season! Let it begin
Larry DeMers
s/v DeLaMer
Lake Superior
Don White wrote:
I have not received mail from the list for a few days.
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