Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

Scott Danforth

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Heat index where Micky is will be 95 at 7am and 106+ by noon
 

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Yeah I haven't touched it because rain and heat I am hoping to get a lil time in today before storms start ..... I got all my supply's in for re spraying the flake and itching to get on that!
 

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Found original brochure for boat and was able to get the gelcoat flake colors off that , my plan is to light sand the clear and hopefully I can respray a thick clear gel on it, I had to rebuild transom area so that will get a base color then flake then clear thick enough to make it easier to keep up and keep shiny! Luckily I'm only having to do top cap for most of boat besides transom area , promise some pics today :/
 

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Micky, Heat index for today is going to be too high to spray gel
 

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Well heat isn't the problem lol the constant rainstorms are sigh get all my stuff get siked up and mother nature has other plans!
 

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I did managed to light sand one side it looks 10 times better with the old yellowed clear gelcoat knocked down
 

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Well at least it's cooled off a bit :)
 

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Ok so got the transom cap and well done with the originals color and I think I matched original pretty good I'll get pics of transition
 

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mickyryan

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Going to try to get out there tonite since rain supposed to be gone for rest of day for us
 

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Got a lil bit of gelcoat shot before 🌧️ I'll get some pics when rain stops thank God it got hard before storm!!
 

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Zoom in from distance looks silver up close it's crazy
 

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Yeah at 20 ft it just looks silver like what was original, just thought the up close looked cool :)
 
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