Shine up your older boat. Gelcoat comes back, if you ask nicely.
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Anyone can hit a rock with a hammer; getting the rock to look like something that belongs in museums and books... Takes a love of hitting rocks with a purpose and not just the right tools/products.
I use a DeWalt DWP849X
If I'm going for perfection in gelcoat, I don't use a ceramic (unless a very new boat) I prefer the ease, cost and reliability of Fire Glaze by RMP. Make sure you get all the oxidation out of the gelcoat, get a great finish, clean and strip the surface and then apply Fire Glaze.
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There's a "marine" version but it has the same main ingredient as Fire Glaze, just a different lubricant/carrier solution made to be environment friendly. I find it dries rather fast and as I'm in a hot climate, I use Fire Glaze instead of Restructure Marine Polish. I like their Mirasol spray for all the interior furnishings as well.
For a demo on how I apply this stuff:
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3M Quick Connect adapter (mfg # 05752) to use with the double-sided compounding pad (3M mfg #05753) or the double-sided polishing pad (3M mfg #05754)
Foam compounding pads 3M (05737-discontinued but awesome)
or (05723-new version 😑)
3M Super-Duty (05954)
3M Perfect It Heavy Cutting Compound (36102)
Perfect-it ex ac compounds by 3M (36060)
Meguiar’s (owned by 3M) Flagship Premium Wax (M6332) Pro Polish by Shurehold or 3M's liquid wax with scotchguard.
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Wear protective gear, this stuff can cause cancer and kill you.
Lee
Local boydidgood, I can't get enough of your content, so I subscribed!
As long as someone out there's crazy enough to like it, I'm happy to keep going. Thanks!
Lee
How much did you charge the customer? And how long did it take you start to finish?
2 days and enough but turns out, he didn't ask for a detail. The shop owner messed up and paid me a bit for my trouble.
so what is the order of products? will your procedure work to even out an area that had decals removed vs the area that is oxidized?
Hi. Without trying to be rude, or give you a full class in a comment section: I have like 300 vids, while there, you'll learn what you're looking for.
Probably adds 20-30% more to the boat value - for a day or two work.
A friend of mine just bought a solid little Cobalt with a trailer because the detail would have been over $3k.. The owner sold him the boat for $3k. He spun it around and sold the boat for $12k last month.. A world of difference on the resale market. Ask anyone who's had plastic surgery. Their value went up for a moment too.
It's a thing. A shiny boat will always sell before a dull one. Nobody respects the dull one.
Good point.
Ler
Do you have a video how to remove the cover snaps? I want them off and replace them with some sort of chrome moon cap. Is there such a product? Stored indoors no need for snaps anymore
Just use a screwdriver, grind them a bit, clean with a solvent and fill them in with gelcoat?
I just use a screwdriver but replacing them.. Google? Sorry.
Lee
@@Local_Boydidgood ok thank you.
Good luck. A boat without snaps would look sexy!
When I started watching I was like please pull all those snaps. Dang if you didn’t. So many detailers refuse to pull simple objects and the polish around those small things looks terrible and it eats pads. Lose-lose if you ask me.
Also. Start trying out several of the other commercially available cutting compound. I was a 3M guy forever and switched to Starke about 5 years ago. Total boats total buff is also a very solid cutter after a gel coat repair and wet sand.
I like total boat, stark seems to be very powdery when working and I don't like that aspect. I've been at this for almost 20 years, I've tried almost everything else, 3M is consistent and repeatable. Expensive and not available worldwide sure but it works and I can trust it.
Glad we both hate snaps and ugly spots on boats!
Lee
Lee thank you for all your content ,,, I’m three stepping my whaler montauk,, when I get to the ex ac stage I’m
Still using the white wool ,, my question is when I use the white foam pad for the second final run of exac do you do the same procedure of go slow 600-700 work in then run flat at same rpm or do you turn up the speed max like a wool to finish out or stay slow because of heat ??
This would be for the flat interior and exterior hull surface ,, not contour areas
No! Foam can't take heat or speed!
Slow, flat and smooth. The job of foam is to reduce any irregularities left from a wool pad and to get some sharp reflections near fittings and snaps. It will heighten the gloss and the smoothness of the surface and will remove most "swirl/hologram marks".
Go slow.
Thank you 👍🇺🇸
Anytime
You'll try to stay flat the entire time. Uniformity is the goal with Foam. No edging, cross-cutting, just spreading and finishing. It's a step most don't do but you'll appreciate it. If you liked the change from Heavy Cut to Perfect-it ex ac on a wool pad, it's that kind of difference from wool to foam. When done, it shouldn't at all, look like a machine was used (no telltale signs of a buffer)