stevebirch2002
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ANyone had any experiences on using the removal gel that is available. 27' yacht with about three/four years of antifoul. Dont fancy scraping for days on end! Experiences and recommendations please.
Anti-foul removal?
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ex-Gladys
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...do a search... look for Caustic soda, Removall, and Dilunett as a few starters. Much recent discussion, and I'm a satisfied Dilunett customer experimenting with Caustic soda and wallpaper paste
Talbot
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I have used Removall on TCMs mobo. Was very impressed with the ease of application and degree of removing a/f.
tcm
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Re: removall
yeah, talbot and i are suffering from overload of talking about removall, and in the next post people droine on about power tools, or sanding it down, or chiping at the stuff for a few days.
23metre boat, Removall 610 specifically for removing antifoul or any paint off grp, sti8r it from looking rabncid yoghurt to cream whcih takes 5-10 mins, lash it on with brush or roller or both (it says airless sprayer best but it wd have to be a v good one, not a fifty quid thing). Wait a few hours - we lashed the stuff on, went to pub ,lashed bit more on, then snooze overnight then morning ...all wipe-offable with giant 6"inch scraper and hardly any effort. Removall ain't cheap, but coverage is about double what they say (cos they want to sell the stuf praps) so talbot got a big tubn and i sold some more here too.
yeah, talbot and i are suffering from overload of talking about removall, and in the next post people droine on about power tools, or sanding it down, or chiping at the stuff for a few days.
23metre boat, Removall 610 specifically for removing antifoul or any paint off grp, sti8r it from looking rabncid yoghurt to cream whcih takes 5-10 mins, lash it on with brush or roller or both (it says airless sprayer best but it wd have to be a v good one, not a fifty quid thing). Wait a few hours - we lashed the stuff on, went to pub ,lashed bit more on, then snooze overnight then morning ...all wipe-offable with giant 6"inch scraper and hardly any effort. Removall ain't cheap, but coverage is about double what they say (cos they want to sell the stuf praps) so talbot got a big tubn and i sold some more here too.
GrahamC
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Re: removall
Hi
Used similar stuff last year and found it worked ok if the temprature was 10C.or above and used when its relativly warm. If the stuff gets frosted it goes off and sets like concrete,keep it in a frostfree store
GrahamC
Hi
Used similar stuff last year and found it worked ok if the temprature was 10C.or above and used when its relativly warm. If the stuff gets frosted it goes off and sets like concrete,keep it in a frostfree store
GrahamC
jamesackrill
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Steve,
See www.ecologicsystems.co.uk, we have a new technology for removing antifoul whilst preserving the integrity of the gelcoat. Unlike traditional blasting methods our product is gentle and environmentally friendly.
Regards
James
See www.ecologicsystems.co.uk, we have a new technology for removing antifoul whilst preserving the integrity of the gelcoat. Unlike traditional blasting methods our product is gentle and environmentally friendly.
Regards
James
yoda
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Not sure how much these paint removers cost but I recon you could get it removed by grit blasting for about £350 and it would save a lot of time and effort on your part.
Yoda
Yoda
tcm
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Yep, the gel cost about £350 quid except er bigger boat and no damage not even any risk of damage
tcm
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ecologic harumph
ooh, you ain't supposed to be advertising here, but what the heck.
Heh, it can't really be "ecological" stripper , now can it? No. Cos to be ecological, you wouldn't strip the paint at all! Strippin the paint means disposing of the paint and putting loads more on. So in fact, the more successful your company becomes, the more boats will chuck more loads of paint away and put loads more on. This contrast starkly against manual methods of paint removal where lots of people spend a week going scrape scrape chip chip chip oh soddit and then paint over, see? Much more ecological. What *you* mean is that the products you use to strip the toxic paint aren't themselves very toxic. This isn't the same. And the same applies to other products anyway.
Sepretly i wd think it much better to go for a name like antistrippo or hullstrip - this environmental advertising is quite passé
ooh, you ain't supposed to be advertising here, but what the heck.
Heh, it can't really be "ecological" stripper , now can it? No. Cos to be ecological, you wouldn't strip the paint at all! Strippin the paint means disposing of the paint and putting loads more on. So in fact, the more successful your company becomes, the more boats will chuck more loads of paint away and put loads more on. This contrast starkly against manual methods of paint removal where lots of people spend a week going scrape scrape chip chip chip oh soddit and then paint over, see? Much more ecological. What *you* mean is that the products you use to strip the toxic paint aren't themselves very toxic. This isn't the same. And the same applies to other products anyway.
Sepretly i wd think it much better to go for a name like antistrippo or hullstrip - this environmental advertising is quite passé
ex-Gladys
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I used Dilunett on Amber (I guess a bit less underwater than a Vega) and it used about 2 litres. 2.5 l cost around £28 from MArinestore in Mersea
VicMallows
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Larry,
Aprox how many years build-up were you stripping off?
Vic
Aprox how many years build-up were you stripping off?
Vic
Sans Bateau
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Not sure how much these paint removers cost but I recon you could get it removed by grit blasting for about £350 and it would save a lot of time and effort on your part.
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Yeh I'll go along with that, our 35 ft'er was only about £450 last year. Bloke next to me in the yard was working away for weeks with some stuff that smelled awfull, talk about polution! The grit blasting took my contractor about 3 hours!
On the subject of grit blasting, there are lots of 'new' expensive systems around. We choose Symblast from Poole, he uses good old fashioned air powered grit. We had 99.9% removal of antifoul, no gelcoat damage and MDL were delighted with the way they cleared up.
Fully recommend him, unless you are looking for something to do.
Not sure how much these paint removers cost but I recon you could get it removed by grit blasting for about £350 and it would save a lot of time and effort on your part.
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Yeh I'll go along with that, our 35 ft'er was only about £450 last year. Bloke next to me in the yard was working away for weeks with some stuff that smelled awfull, talk about polution! The grit blasting took my contractor about 3 hours!
On the subject of grit blasting, there are lots of 'new' expensive systems around. We choose Symblast from Poole, he uses good old fashioned air powered grit. We had 99.9% removal of antifoul, no gelcoat damage and MDL were delighted with the way they cleared up.
Fully recommend him, unless you are looking for something to do.
tangomoon
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A Pro-Scraper is the easiest probably 8 hours for the worste
ex-Gladys
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About 6-8 years. GL has probably got 10yrs plus on, fortunately not well aplied 
