Re: Friscoboater's 1986 Glastron Carlson CVX-18 Complete restoration thread
Dad tried his hand at polishing too. It is a craft you really have to practice to get right.
You can see that the shine is starting to come back now. This is only after one of the 4 or 5 polishing steps.
Now it was time for the stuff I had never done before... gel coat repair. I had several deep gouges in the grey and the black glitter, so I had to get them filled and gel coated. Plus I had sanded through a few places, and they need a re-spray.
What I did first was mix up the right color gel ( and that took forever with the grey) and then thicken it up like Peanut Butter so that I could putty the gouges. You want to leave the repair a little higher than the hull, and then once it cures you sand it level with the surface. You could polish and be done, but I wanted to bland it better.
This was a large gouge here and this is after the filler has been added.
These were two deep holes that I filled. You can see where I sanded through here.
Once that was done I mixed up black non waxed gel coat, thinned it with 10% Styrene thinner and sprayed it through my small detail gun. I feathered the edges out to kinda blend the black.
I then took non waxed clear gel coat and mixed in my metal flake that I found from PPG. All I was trying to do was to get a decent pattern here. The idea is to vary your spray pressure and distance to get the flak to lay in deferent ways.
