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I'm starting to paint my Triton "Silver Girl" And thought I'd start posting photos of my progress so far.
Before:
Sanding with the Porter Cable 7335
More sanding...
I'm taking off paint, all 8 layers of it back to the gel-coat. The following photos show some of the pealing and crazing of the paint. They don't show the 12 inch wide strip running down the Port side were the top layer of had pealed up like a plate of potato chips since I've already sanded that mess off.
That looks a lot like my boat did before stripping and repainting. I used a long handle (18") razor blade holder. I was able to strip the paint in sheets right down to gel coat. I took 6 hours for the entire hull. I still had to sand, fair, fill, fair, sand, yada, yada, etc., etc.. But at least the paint was gone almost painlessly.
Dave Finnegan
builder of Spindrift 9N #521 'Wingë'
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I tried the Razor scraper idea and it worked great. It only pealed the paint back to the bottom layer of pea green paint, but it's pretty easy to sand that off to the gel coat with 80 grit and the random orbit sander.
Glad the razor blade helped on your project too. Anything that cuts down on sanding is aces as I see it. Getting there.
Dave Finnegan
builder of Spindrift 9N #521 'Wingë'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gresham’s Law of information: Bad information drives out good. No matter how long ago a correction for a particular error may have appeared in print or online, it never seems to catch up with the ever-widening distribution of the error.