VicS
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Any good for removing antifouling .. Lidl scraper http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/SID-E...our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=4330
Any good for removing antifouling .. Lidl scraper
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Quandary
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A hand operated Bahco pull scraper with one blade (my weapon of choice) will clear a side rapidly and without gouging but will cost more than Lidls offering. Replacement blades for the Bahco are now close to a tenner each but I suspect they will last a lot longer than Lidls.
Antifouling dust is now a lot less hazardous than it used to be, certainly the barnacles think so, but the hand scraper will produce more large flakes and less fine dust?
Antifouling dust is now a lot less hazardous than it used to be, certainly the barnacles think so, but the hand scraper will produce more large flakes and less fine dust?
Hugh Foulis
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Naa... Use a big one
PeteCooper
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I bought the Lidl scraper a few years ago. It works OK on thick antifouling if you have a stepped edge to work against, not so good on smoother stuff. As suggested a Bahco is more effective - also harder work.
Bilgediver
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Not bad but taking the edge of at the corners makes it easier to avoid gouging.
philip_stevens
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Yes.
I removed all the flaking and not-so-flaking AF between the keels and on up on the sides, and used the blade on the right of the Lidl advert, in a Bosch scraper - similar to the Lidl scraper.
I had, on a previous boat, removed the AF on the complete hull using Bahco scrapers - and it was bl00dy hard work.
If you use the Lidl scraper, make sure the scraper attachment has the the extreme corners ground off - to prevent them digging into the gel-coat.
lpdsn
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Probably depends upon how much spare gelcoat you've got.
I've used blades from a plane with a specially made handle attached. Very effective but you had to be very alert to it digging into the gelcoat. I'd feel uneasy using a power tool with a scraper.
Rigger Mortice
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Yes and no!
Years ago I had a Bosch one which was very good. It had tools with tungsten carbine (carbide?) edges on them which were excellent. Eventually it burnt out and it so happened that Lidl had theirs on offer. I bought one (£15 or £16 was a lot better than the £60 odd for the Bosch) and was surprised that it looked to be identical except for the blades which just had plain steel edges. The blades were just not as good as the tungsten ones, but I was able to use the Bosch ones in the Lidl machine.
The Lidl one burnt out a lot quicker but I'll be replacing it with the current offer and will continue to use the Bosch blades..
The earlier comments about rounding of the corners of the blades are well worth noting.
For the price the Lidl tool is well worth trying.
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gjgm
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Might depend on the type of a/f and how much.. I used it on 5 years of hard a/f and it glided through it. Only issue was that I had done 75pct of the boat manually before I remembered I had this
At £16, certainly worth a try.
SteveSarabande
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Has anyone used it to remove treadmaster. I have some manky old stuff on my engine access covers that i need to peel off the plywood backing
macd
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Not used one, but I imagine it will depend on what the treadmaster's stuck down with: usual options are either contact adhesive or epoxy. If the latter, it comes off easily enough with a hand scraper if softened with a hot air gun, so I daresay a power scraper would be even better. I haven't removed any stuck with contact adhesive, so can't help there.
Rigger Mortice
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I used mine for all sorts of jobs and it was generally easier and quicker than using a either a chisel or a scraper. If you could use either of those to remove your treadmaster then the Lidl tool will almost certainly do the job.
VicS
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Aplogies to Lydiamight
Aplogies to Lydiamight who posted a link to this much earlier yesterday.
I did not see the post ... no one else seems to have taken any notice of it either
Aplogies to Lydiamight who posted a link to this much earlier yesterday.
I did not see the post ... no one else seems to have taken any notice of it either