How do you totally remove antifoul - reasonably easily that is?

[searay215ec]

Some people have used oven cleaner. There is a product called Citristrip which is non-toxic but i can't find a place in Australia that sells it.
Look forward to see what evovlves from this as i need to do my boat too.

[Fatenhappy]

Cheers Cormorant ... I'll give that a try ...

When I was over at Pete's (Grand-Marlin) the other day he said he had tried almost everthing but to no avail. Apparently he and a mate where there one day having given up in frustration and then they found that just using a paint scraper once it is was really dry just made it peel right off.

So far i've tried the paint scraper (no joy), then the new water blaster with only very very limited success, as well as wet scrubbing and still no joy...

I am guessing this is the long life extra hard stuff as I know there are different strengths or "rates of softness" to this stuff depending how long the intended application. As a result, the harder stuff is more resiliant.

If I can't come up with a suitable alternative over the next few months I'll have to resort to the the soda wash people I think even though I don't want to depart with 2 grand .... Lets face it ... that's a lot of fuel, beer and bait, down the gurgler ... bummer!

Cheers
Greg

[Grand_Marlin]

G'day Greg,

If it has got to the stage that you need someone to do it for you, maybe give Mark Keates a call - his profession is antifouling / painting, and he is mobile.

He would give you a price to strip and re-do the primer and antifoul.

0409 617 644

Cheers

Pete

[cormorant]

Correct contact for salstrip

salstrip@people.net.au rob 0409665153

Can't remember if I mentioned it before but you can attach a wet sandblasting head to some high volume water pressure units and it is just like sandblasting only without the dust ( danger with antifoul removal) Ie - emmulates do it yourself sodablast- rental firms may rent these units

Tell us how you go as I will have to do this eventually on another boat.

[Fatenhappy]

Thanks Pete and Cormorant ..

FYI, Mark gets others in to do a soda blast and salstrip are located in Sydney. The good oil from Sydney though was to try to find someone locally that can do plastic bead blasting instead of the soda blasting as apparently its supposed to be a lot less intrusive.

Meanwhile I've also flashed off an email to the paper wrap gell people .... and so the sarga continues ...

Cheers

[Fatenhappy]

Hey Ian ..... and thanks again for the PM ....

Old mate from the "glue and paper" people at Archerfield here in Brissy was able to get back to me today with a positive result. He is going to forward me a sample of their product to try.

It all sounds good though especially from your report in the PM.

They supply a 20 Kilo/litre package with all the bits and pieces to do a 10 - 15 sq/metre area as well as the clean up/finish off gear for $238 or there abouts and it sounds far less intrusive than wet or dry sanding the hull.

Cheers again
Greg

[Ian1]

Hey Greg

Yeh I used 2 of the 20 kilo kits but I had to do mine twice. Cost was about the same from memory. Still the easiest way though. It helps if you have 2 people when you are putting the paper on. I aslo taped the edges of the paper with 2 inch masking tape. We put it on nice and thick with a couple of 4 inch brushes.
Hope it works for you.

Cheers

Ian

[jimbo59]

Hey lr i have a gerni (very powerful) with wet sand blasting attacment you can have for 500 smakkas, it comes with 3 wands and has done little work....jim

[Fatenhappy]

Thanks Jim .... thanks for the offer

I've just got a brand new commercial rated Karcher at an extremely good price. This thing can blast the cement out of concrete and only leaves the aggregate behind, but even its not good enough to touch this stuff. If they made house paint this good, you'd never have to paint the place again.

The sample glue and peel stuff should be arriving at home today so I'll try that first.

After all is said and done, if that were to fail, I would get the soda blast mob in as its the next least intrusive!

Cheers
Greg

[Jabba_]

Hey Liquid-remedy, any updates on how it is going...

[Snapperscott]

anyone know how this finished?

[scrotty]

Just had mine soda blasted, 6 hours, $1200 bucks, job done! Cheers

[Snapperscott]

and how did that work out for you? What is the condition of the gelcoat like?

[cormorant]

With the sodablast are you going to repaint with antifoul or polish the gelcoat hull?

Scrotty - do you have any before and after shots? How big a boat did he do in 6 hours?

I have seen it so well done that the hull gets fine wet and dry and polished and come up very good and other times it has a texture where it would take a hell of a lot of work to get a polished finish on yachts . Depends on the soda blast bloke and what medium / skill they use and of course what antifoul or epoxy primers were on to start with. Some of the epoxies seem a lot harder and bond so well with the gelcoat it may be worth checking exactly what you have.

The gels that remove paints are OK if it isn't too hot and they stay moist for long enough to penetrate the paint but every boat and paint is different and depends just how many years coats are on. Bit hit and miss

[scrotty]

Hey guys, my boat is a Striper 2301, 7.2 meters. I now have to respray the bottom because the sodablast exposed some small bubbles in the gelcoat, so s quick gelcoat repair and a two pack respray and boat will look as new. I have pics and video but i can not upload them from my i phone.