hull extension in progress with pics

[ezmobee]

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The dash consoles turned out awesome. Glad you were able to fix up the painting snafu.

 

[oops!]

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well....wish me luck.....after a quick dive into the honey do list......im off to see what it cured like....lol

 

[bigredinohio]

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This is one awesome thread! Thanks for the endless resource!!!

 

[jcsercsa]

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MAN THAT Looks Sweet !!! great job buddie !!! John

 

[redfury]

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I'm curious as to how easy it's going to be to clean by the windshield base and those custom dash pods....Not trying to burst any bubbles, they are awesome, but that's the one thought that comes to mind everytime I start to re-engineer anything on my boat.

 

[ezmobee]

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I'm curious as to how easy it's going to be to clean by the windshield base and those custom dash pods....Not trying to burst any bubbles, they are awesome, but that's the one thought that comes to mind everytime I start to re-engineer anything on my boat.

Probably not any worse than trying to clean the rear window of just about any modern sedan! We have a brand new Accord and my wife and I have both tried to clean the rear window with little success.

 

[ben2go]

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That is an azz load of work!I read this from beginning to end.Took me three days.I couldn't make it through a project like that.Good werk.

 

[zach103]

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oops its looking great your getting closer and closer to the wwater

 

[stephanofd]

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It took me a week, and I'm not a slow reader. Lot's of good stuff in here. I'm going to have to dig into my 18' BR this fall and replace the deck at the very least. Plan on using Oops's thread as my bible.

 

[oops!]

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I'm curious as to how easy it's going to be to clean by the windshield base and those custom dash pods....Not trying to burst any bubbles, they are awesome, but that's the one thought that comes to mind everytime I start to re-engineer anything on my boat.

yeah mike....i thought about that....but there was no other way i could pull it off........the only way i can clean in those little spases...is water...a paint brush and a vaccume with a crevice nozzle..........they were tough before...there gonna be tougher now....lol

 

[redfury]

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yeah mike....i thought about that....but there was no other way i could pull it off........the only way i can clean in those little spases...is water...a paint brush and a vaccume with a crevice nozzle..........they were tough before...there gonna be tougher now....lol

Meh, y'know what you do....just pull the windshield off and clean it...easy and done!

either that or a pressure washer

 

[oops!]

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well with round two over.....(two coats of paint) its time to size up what i have to do for round three....

the paint is too shiney to see the small brush ridges that are on the dash console.....it looks good....but nowhere good enough.

if you really look close you can see brush marks.

however....thinning the paint and waiting till 2 am to paint it worked good....the dust in the shop from the day had setteled....and it was cooler that the mid day heat....so i was impressed with the results....some small spots were perfect.

there is some places that you can see the old blue thru the paint.....but coat 3 will fix that.

and with that....out came the water....wet sand paper and sweat.

round 3 starts at 2 am tonight/this morning

 

[Rickairmedic]

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Ooops you are doing a fantastic job on the paint ( granted its expected with all the other work youve done ) . Will look forward to the shots of the glass like paint tomorrow .


Rick

 

[redfury]

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yeah, I really can't see him say "aw hell with it, just get some paint on it so we can finally call this thing done!" It's getting nit picked till the very end.

 

[Rickairmedic]

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well with round two over.....(two coats of paint) its time to size up what i have to do for round three....

the paint is too shiney to see the small brush ridges that are on the dash console.....it looks good....but nowhere good enough.

if you really look close you can see brush marks.

however....thinning the paint and waiting till 2 am to paint it worked good....the dust in the shop from the day had setteled....and it was cooler that the mid day heat....so i was impressed with the results....some small spots were perfect.

there is some places that you can see the old blue thru the paint.....but coat 3 will fix that.

and with that....out came the water....wet sand paper and sweat.

round 3 starts at 2 am tonight/this morning

Ooooops I think I found the problem with your paint not laying down like it should your using the wrong water . This is the prefered painting and wet sanding water .


http://www.wallywine.com/p-18570-evian-water-plastic-bottle.aspx?affiliateid=10098


Rick

 

[oops!]

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awwww now ya tell me...!...lol....

its so hot here that i put away the beer for day time or im toast in just a few hours....so im drinking water....i got two or three bottles open.....one that i drink from.....and one to wash the residual paint off and one for the wet sanding water....(the latter two are tap water) ....ive caught my self grabbing the warm..(wrong) bottle. !

i figgured out where the idea of wet sanding came from.......some grunt in a body shop was sweating his ***** off sanding and dripping on the job, when he discovered it.......hope he made a forution on selling her wet sand paper...lol

 

[Rickairmedic]

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LOL Oooops I will be right there with ya wet sanding soon and it is 82* F here right now at 1Am with a feels like temp of almost 90* F and its almost 1AM which granted I am thrilled with it means I might sell some AC units and have more boat money soon LOL. I saw the water bottle and couldnt help it .


Rick

 

[oops!]

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LOL Oooops I will be right there with ya wet sanding soon and it is 82* F here right now at 1Am with a feels like temp of almost 90* F and its almost 1AM which granted I am thrilled with it means I might sell some AC units and have more boat money soon LOL. I saw the water bottle and couldnt help it .


Rick

lol....years ago in kelowna i used to go to the hotels that were doing renovations and buy the window shaker air conditioner units..(50 or 75 at a time)..take them home....clean ...test and repair if nessary and then sell them at 175 a pop.....(that was before danby flooded the market with the 119 dollar 3500 btu ac units)....

i would sell three before 11 am then my bud and i would head out on the lake and water ski till dark.......it was a fantastic summer.....

 

[Cptkid570]

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What brand of paint are you using?

 

[oops!]

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ok....its 430 ish am here....about 730 on the east coast......

i just got home from the boat......forgot my camera , so sorry no pics. but i will have some tommorow/today of the progress/reversal....lol

as above....i wet sanded the boat agein to get it ready for tonight's paint...i thinned the paint out, by adding 10 percent mineral spirits.....(sales instructions)......well....the paint was sooo thin that it was like water.....

knowing somthing was really wrong.....i dipped the roller and hit the upper deck.

well.....it still wouldn't lay down....even as thin as it was......i rolled it.....it was so thin that the bubbles broke right away....but when i tipped it. deep ridges appeared......i barely touched the paint with the brush !

i waited about 10 minits waiting for the paint to self level....it wouldn't.

sooooo.......instead of painting the whole boat with a bad batch of paint...i decided to just re coat the areas that were still showing some blu thru the paint.........ill have to re sand those tomorrow....but at least i can go back to the store and talk to the mgr. and find out what the heck is going on that the paint wont lay dowm even under a super thin watery coat...

ill see if it will dry any different tomorrow morning....but it didn't look any different when i left.

so.....ill see what it looks like.....and yes...ill take the camera.

cheers
oops