[Public-List] removing bottom paint

[George Dinwiddie]

Glenn,

On 3/14/11 4:29 PM, brooks.glenn at comcast.net wrote:
> George,
> Are you near a marina with a high pressure wash down system? Usually
> you can get rid of a lot of bottom paint by high pressure wash down.
> Scraping the flaky stuff works, then afterwards I use an orbital
> sander with 80 grit paper - connected to a 12 - 15 gal shop vac to
> grind down to near the gell coat. A shop vac hose is made to fit over
> the exhaust port of most orbital sanders and does a very good job of
> collecting the sanding residue.

If the paint is flaking, then it's easy to scrape off.  A sharp scraper 
can get under the layers of paint and chip it off in flakes without all 
the dust of sanding.

These days, I use an ablative paint and just wet the paint and sand it 
with a grill scrubber.

  - George

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