Scraping anti-foul down to the bare hull

Watched a man with a 34 ftr one year, scraping, diluenting, etc etc. The chemical remover was crap, it took him for ever, he scraped, gave up, chemicalled, scraped gave up, cursed. Long and short of it it took him weeks and he would have been better paying for a slurry blast
Stu
 
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After scraping I gave the surface a quick sand over with 120 grit paper, as my boat is over 30 years old, I epoxy coated it before tie coat and then anti foul, make sure you keep dressing the tool with a file to keep the edge.

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I hadn't heard of tie coat before. Will anti-foul not stick to GRP? I've just had a look at the international web site and I can see they recommend it. But they would since they get to sell another tub of gunge.
 
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Watched a man with a 34 ftr one year, scraping, diluenting, etc etc. The chemical remover was crap, it took him for ever, he scraped, gave up, chemicalled, scraped gave up, cursed. Long and short of it it took him weeks and he would have been better paying for a slurry blast
Stu

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I asked the guys doing the blasting about this. They confirmed that most boats had a patch where the owner has started scraping and then given up.

But I'm remaining optimistic.
 
I had a quote for slurry blasting my 8.5 meter bilge keel boat and it was around £350 plus VAT for mobile service based in Portsmouth area.
I took me a couple of days to scrape mine and I'm a bit slow now as I have a dicky ticker and have to take things easy. I used Blakes epoxy coating and tie coat, I think they all recommend a tie coat as a precaution against the AF not sticking
 
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Have you looked down the back of the sofa?

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I have small children. I try not to look down the back of the sofa....

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In that case wait a few years and get them to scrap it off /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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I had Indigo blasted last year, by a local contractor using the Farrow System . Lovely job - took about a day for 28'.

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I have been looking into the Farrow System, their video is very impressive. There doesn't seem to be a UK distributor, they seem to operate a franchise system, but I found a reference to Farrow Systems having gone into receivership. So not sure at the moment if they are still available or if spares would be available. I have found another company Abraclean, that make a similar machine. The price doesn't seem too bad, so voluntary redundancy is looking quite favourable at the moment. As much as I would love to retire and go off sailing, at 50 I still need to find something to earn some money so I will continue doing the sums.

A couple of years ago I stripped my previous boat, a Jaguar 21 with Dilunet and although it did dissolve the antifoul it only seemed to do one layer at a time. It took several days to strip completely.
 
[/ QUOTE ] I knew someone who ended up in really bad trouble and continuous severe pain as a result of using a "nibbler" to cut half of the roof off a bus.

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I try and get their early so I can get a seat in the outside when I want to go on a city bus tour. A lot let hassle. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
My wife and I did our long keel 29 footer with an assortment of and scrapers a few years ago. The best was a two-handed tungsten carbide one by Sandvik, there are several copies around now. And something from the pound shop that looked a bit like Eric the Red's war axe. Inter strip is crap, Dilunet is less effective. Some people rave over a mix of caustic soda and wallpaper paste, and I'm told the Bosch vibrating strippers are the dog's wotsits, but it's too late for me now. Next time it happens I'll be forking out for someone else to do it. Anyone else, in fact. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Can you tell me the make/model of the electric stripper? I am hard scraping at present and just glad to have a 26 foot boat and not 40!!!
 
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