I have returned... with a Starcraft this time!

[Candutch]

I hated stripping my boat. You and the young fella are making great progress on it. Looking forward to coming months and a 2018 splash?

 

[BWR1953]

I hated stripping my boat. You and the young fella are making great progress on it. Looking forward to coming months and a 2018 splash?

Thanks! Progress was painfully slow in 2017 but is finally picking up now. The boy is really bonding with the boat. Albeit reluctantly! :lol:

Yes, definitely hoping to get the boat completely done and splashed by Spring. (Fingers crossed.) :joyous:

 

[Watermann]

I can see the KF belonging to the boy one day, no way you could ever sell it now.

 

[BWR1953]

I can see the KF belonging to the boy one day, no way you could ever sell it now.

Yahhh, I can see it going that way too! :lol:

 

[BWR1953]

Got a little more stripping done late this afternoon. The temps have been quite cold the last few days but I really have the itch to get stuff done. Only got up to 59 here but inside the garage it must have been 70 or so at 3pm. I picked up the boy from school at 4:30 and we grabbed a burger and headed for the garage for early dinner and some boat work.

It was much chillier when we got started and I also forgot to heat the slurry and the boat on the first application. D'oh! :facepalm:

The slurry was about the consistency of cake batter for the first application. Cold too.



After 35-40 minutes, we started scraping. We were both bundled up for the cold.




So, prior to the second slurry application, I wanted to preheat the mix and the aluminum hull sides. My HF heat gun had given me a bit of trouble the last time that I'd used it and today it was definitely busticated. So I took it apart to see what was up. Found that the fan motor had completely separated from the fan and was flopping around inside. Got that all fixed up and it's running perfectly again.



By this time, the temperature inside the garage was down into the 40s and the boy enjoyed seeing his own breath form a cloud while we waited on the slurry to work.


And this is how it ended up. Temps are supposed to be in the 70s over the next several days, so we'll keep after it and get as much done as we can before the next cold front heads our way! :joyous:

 

[Watermann]

Man and boy must persevere! The worst job there is when working on the boat.... trailer work is horrible too :lol: Naaa I enjoyed it all now looking back.

 

[BWR1953]

Speaking of persevering, we spent over 6 hours out there making more progress today!

The high temp was only 66 degrees today, not the 70+ that had been forecast. And that lower temp affected us later in the day. The goal was to finish the entire starboard side today but we didn't quite make it because the stripper stopped working due to the cooler temps.

It's supposed to get up to 75 degrees tomorrow, so we'll be hitting it again. And with that warmer forecast, I decided not to mess with the heat gun option tonight. We can make up a lot of ground when it's warmer tomorrow.

Before we get to the pix, here's a quick video showing the Jasco and flour mix. I used enough flour to bring the consistency to about the same as pancake batter. It really does help to keep the stripper on the vertical hull surfaces.

So this is the first slurry application of the day.


Globbing the gloop on.


Moving along.



I had to turn a fan on low while working because I actually started to work up a little sweat! :lol:


At this point, the boy started getting excited because the end (for the day) was in sight!

 

[BWR1953]

A few more pix.


Really getting close to the front of the bow now.



This was the last "big" section that we did tonight.



And this is where we left it for tonight. After it warms up tomorrow, we'll be out there again. :nod:

 

[baldwibr]

I really enjoy watching your progress. It's inspiring to watch you get your boy involved. I hope I'll be able to restore my Starcraft this year and have my boy help me. Keep up the great work!

 

[jbcurt00]

W the fan on, there was probably enough airflow to speed drying....

Cover w a piece of painters really thin plastic dropcloth..... Even cut open grocery plastic bags....

Plus when you pull it off, it'll take some stripper and peeled paint w it..

 

[BWR1953]

I really enjoy watching your progress. It's inspiring to watch you get your boy involved. I hope I'll be able to restore my Starcraft this year and have my boy help me. Keep up the great work!

Thanks! Glad to have you following along.

Getting the boy involved is easy enough, but keeping him interested is the tough part! There are a ton of other things he'd rather be doing most of the time! :lol:

 

[BWR1953]

W the fan on, there was probably enough airflow to speed drying....

Cover w a piece of painters really thin plastic dropcloth..... Even cut open grocery plastic bags....

Plus when you pull it off, it'll take some stripper and peeled paint w it..

Yah, we tried that back on Page 74, Post #1099 with less than spectacular results. :blue:

 

[jbcurt00]

Oh sure, now ya tell me! :lol:

The details you provided make sense. Lots of good, helpful information. Thanks! And based on that info, I can't help but wonder if the ideal way to apply the stripper would be to spray it on. Ya know?

So after my earlier post, we tried a couple different techniques with improved results.

In this pic, we applied to a smaller area adjacent to the previous poor results section. This time we brushed on a thick coat, covered, waited 20 minutes and scraped. Worked better than the prior method.



The section in the foreground was the second attempt.



For this attempt we poured a large portion then spread with a wide scraper. Didn't cover it. It bubbled up quickly. Waited 15 minutes.



Scraped again this time. The section towards the bow had been done previously. Some stripper dribbled down the stern and did well.



Then we took it outside for a rinse with the pressure washer, which also cleaned around the rivets very nicely.



Back in the barn, ready for more work tomorrow!

Seems it went ok.....

 

[BWR1953]

Seems it went ok.....

Indeed. Now all we need to do is wait for it to be 85 or 90 degrees again. :lol:

And towards the end of that post, we'd given up covering with plastic and were getting similar results compared to covered.

I really think that the low-PSI pressure washer I have was just cooling/neutralizing the stripper rather than removing the paint. Other folks apparently had good results with just applying the stripper and blasting with the pressure washer. I wasn't one of the lucky ones though. I suppose the scraper method is what I'll have to live with for the remainder of this KF project.
That 42 y.o. paint just didn't want to come off with water! :laugh:

NOT going to go this route again though!

 

[Decker83]

You made great progress today. Keep at it and you'll be looking back at a nice shinny boat..:clap2:

 

[BWR1953]

We really turned a corner with the boat stripping today! Literally and figuratively!



Started out with GREAT weather! Temps outside were 75 degrees and inside the garage it had to be over 80, so we opened the doors and windows and let the sun shine in!



This is the second (followup) application for this section. I used straight stripper without the flour mix, just to check it out. And it predictably "ran" down the sides a lot faster. But it also seemed to cut just a little bit better. Oddly enough, when I got some on my skin it didn't "burn" me as badly as the flour mix does.



Yeahhh...



And on to the next section.



Cleaned!




At this point we had COMPLETELY RUN OUT OF STRIPPER so I'll have to buy another gallon tomorrow.



Awww yeahhh....




And the end is in sight! :joyous:

 

[BWR1953]

So what to do about this blotch at the bow? It sorta looks like road tar that got splashed up there somehow. We hit it with stripper a couple times. No joy. Then Goo Gone followed by WD-40. Same same.

It feels kinda rubbery to me, although I haven't given it my full attention yet.

Any thoughts on how to remove this blight on the hull? I obviously don't want to paint over that thing. :lol:

 

[Watermann]

Try heat gun and putty knife on the goop since chemicals didn't work.

Lookin good :thumb:.

 

[BWR1953]

Try heat gun and putty knife on the goop since chemicals didn't work.

Lookin good :thumb:.

I'll hit it with the heat gun tomorrow. Thanks!

 

[BWR1953]

Y'all do realize that it's been over a YEAR since the KF was on the water, right? Jan 12, 2017 was the last time it got wet! Jeez, this "simple re-power" sure is taking a long time! :lol:

So this evening I was doing some photo editing to show my wife the proposed black/white color scheme. This wonderful lady who has been buggin' me for over a year to just dump the boat and get on with life NOW wanted to add color commentary! LMAO!! ound:

Anyway, she did suggest another contrast stripe along the spray rail, so I incorporated that and this is the result.

What say y'all? :biggrin-new: