Paint strippers

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:35 pm

yorklyn wrote:I got a quote to soda blast the bottom 2 yrs ago, $1400. I'm sure it went up by now. My plan with the stripper is to wait until my two workers piss me off (believe it or not it seems to happen alot!) and we are going to have a bottom stripping party all day long! For only $250 in material I should be entertained for the entire day!

larryeddington · Post by **larryeddington** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:00 am

If not Soda, might as well break out the random orbit sander and get after it. I also have air chisels but only use on metal, and it is quite effective breaking spot welds etc, but what was on my boats bottom was just a veneer of various colors, no edge to get under. Besides I am too old and lazy to work that hard, leave it up to Jeff for hard work.

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:52 pm

gee thanks LOL

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:21 pm

Well the guys sheared the top off my 4 month old $350 electric trailer tounge jack when they left the tailgate of my truck down while backing the trailer up! (I destroyed the first one when they "disconnected" the trailer but not the chains and told me to pull forward !)
I believe the bottom paint will be stripped soon!!!!!!!!!

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:26 pm

yorklyn wrote:Well the guys sheared the top off my 4 month old $350 electric trailer tounge jack when they left the tailgate of my truck down while backing the trailer up! (I destroyed the first one when they "disconnected" the trailer but not the chains and told me to pull forward !)
I believe the bottom paint will be stripped soon!!!!!!!!!

sounds like someone will be getting fired soon "too"

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:36 pm

can't fire them, The boats not back together yet! Plenty of "Fun" stuff for them to do!!! Can't wait to replace the the hoses on the Head!

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:40 pm

Ur a cool dude!!!

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:46 pm

Cool or Cruel!!!!

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:49 pm

Depends on who your talking to

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:12 pm

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:23 pm

LOL. So I had the guys work on a 10ft section of the bow today. I could actually see this stuff working if you left it on longer but after rebuilding the busted jack for two hours I decided to have them scrape it after 4 hrs. alot of paint came off but there is still more. I may try spraying it then putting light weight poly over it to keep it wet. (saw someone do it on utube). A powerwasher would help alot but It would have taken some of the amusement out of it for me today!

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:24 pm

By the way, I soda blasted the white areas before we started with the stripper.

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:38 pm

Got serious. Applied stripper, covered with light painters plastic and let it sit overnight. heres the results

hows this for a "green product" ?

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:57 am

how many layers of paint did you have on the boat ?

yorklyn · Post by **yorklyn** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:05 am

its an 1987, my guess is 25 to 30 yrs worth!! LOL. It was thick and needed to be done.