Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

[froggy1150]

I will take your rusty boiler thermometer and raise you a clean one 10 deg

 

[mickyryan]

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I will take your rusty boiler thermometer and raise you a clean one 10 deg

Damn!

 

[mickyryan]

So this you might find interesting, I shot some of the waxed gelcoat yesterday but it kept going off in gun , so I stopped this morning I touched the boat the resin is sticky like non waxed then I thought dam resin went off so fast that the wax never had a chance to migrate to surface... Interesting

 

[froggy1150]

If that's true that gel coat might be compromised

 

[mickyryan]

Well I'm sure that is probably taken into account I mean they wouldn't mix it in there if it could compromise it since they have no way of knowing if all of it migrates, guess that's why it bound to the styrene ?

 

[mickyryan]

Although it could be sticky because of wax itself since so hot, I'll do water test if it clouds it's wax

 

[mickyryan]

The saga continues I tried strait ammonia , tsp neither worked , this some world class wax!

 

[mickyryan]

Got a winner!! After wetting so I could see wax sprayed with this and damn near dissolved without having to touch it , lite wipe and rest was gone

 

[mickyryan]

Gonna spend day scrubbing so I can do another coat but I feel confident now I can easily remove wax

 

[mickyryan]

Missus is out for evening , so I gathered every rag I could find and doing "laundry"

 

[sphelps]

You sure like living life on the edge! 🫣

 

[mickyryan]

You sure like living life on the edge! 🫣

I get those rags from home depot the terry cloth towels , she been known to steel a few from me lol

 

[mickyryan]

Read.a interesting artical about this wax evidently when military use to use it they did study's about the wax propagating through consecutive layers and it would,they would slap coat after coat on top of each other within a certain window of time and see, not sure how they would see unless maybe they colored it somehow

 

[mickyryan]

Got out here at 4 am since weather has been crap, got the wax remover on and stripping away, what a task this been lol, a wipe down with acetone would never pull all this wax off. I'm doing wax removal to be able to sand cause this stuff woulda gummed up the sandpaper pretty fast!

 

[kcassells]

Kickin some butt Mick! Keep cool.

 

[mickyryan]

First and last regel coat I'll ever do I shoulda just done paint with clear but I see clear pealing all the time so thought I'd go this route lol actually it's the wax that bothered me mostly
Into sanding,hope I don't burn through anywhere not sure how I'd fix flake lol

 

[mickyryan]

Well got a couple issues so far adhesion in the inside of bow area ,easily fixed but not sure why , my guess is it was too hot when I did that side, got to post when a mess up happens as much as when things are good I'll get it sorted . Just sucks materials ain't cheap!

 

[mickyryan]

So tempted to sand this down and go over to urethane paint lol

 

[kcassells]

So you have to ask yourself......
What would Astro Boy do?

 

[mickyryan]

I'm gonna attempt to fix till I run out of materials thenalena decision if I was able to fix to my satisfaction