rotrax
Well-Known Member
Over the years I have spent thousands getting motorbike parts re-finished. To the extent where our small motorbike shop was the 'go to' place for fuel tank refinishing. Our guy, Landowski, was the dogs dangly bits with a bike fuel tank.
I like to think I know where to get a good job done and at a sensible price, and am aware of the benifits and shortcomings of different finishes.
Our boat has a Hoyt Boom for the jib. Gives excellent sail shape, acts as a kicker/vang with a free sheet and is self tacking. It is a 5 inch diameter aluminium tube, 40 degree bend in the pivot end and is 12 feet long.
Our boat was supplied when new by Peters Opal and they or their contractors failed to use any insulator between the S/S boom hardware and fixings. This caused galvanic corrosion which started to lift the silver powder coat finish. We decided to have it blasted and re powder coated. The OE finish got scruffy after nine years, so with the use of Duralac the new finish should last far longer.
We took it to a local metal refinishing specialist who said they could do it quickly and at the right price. Local to the boats mooring in Sussex, tricky thing to move around being 12 feet long. It just squeezed in the Fiat Doblo with the tailgate open a little.
I began to get twitchy when we had no return calls re price and timescale. Eventually I pinned them down, got a quote for almost 400 quid!
Yesterday First Mate and I drove to the boat, checked mooring lines, engine/genset tube heaters and the big tube heater and dehumidifier and timer. All OK.
Went to the metal refinishers, collected the boom, fetched it home on the roof of the Doblo. I had custom made holders for it using the roof bar mounts.
Took it to a local guy in the interestingly named hamlet of Gozzards Ford, adjacent to Abingdon Airfield. He comes highly reccomended.
He gave it a proper old fashioned look and said " Be 80 quid to a ton mate. Next week do yer? "
My mistake was perhaps telling the first bloke it was from a boat..........................................
I like to think I know where to get a good job done and at a sensible price, and am aware of the benifits and shortcomings of different finishes.
Our boat has a Hoyt Boom for the jib. Gives excellent sail shape, acts as a kicker/vang with a free sheet and is self tacking. It is a 5 inch diameter aluminium tube, 40 degree bend in the pivot end and is 12 feet long.
Our boat was supplied when new by Peters Opal and they or their contractors failed to use any insulator between the S/S boom hardware and fixings. This caused galvanic corrosion which started to lift the silver powder coat finish. We decided to have it blasted and re powder coated. The OE finish got scruffy after nine years, so with the use of Duralac the new finish should last far longer.
We took it to a local metal refinishing specialist who said they could do it quickly and at the right price. Local to the boats mooring in Sussex, tricky thing to move around being 12 feet long. It just squeezed in the Fiat Doblo with the tailgate open a little.
I began to get twitchy when we had no return calls re price and timescale. Eventually I pinned them down, got a quote for almost 400 quid!
Yesterday First Mate and I drove to the boat, checked mooring lines, engine/genset tube heaters and the big tube heater and dehumidifier and timer. All OK.
Went to the metal refinishers, collected the boom, fetched it home on the roof of the Doblo. I had custom made holders for it using the roof bar mounts.
Took it to a local guy in the interestingly named hamlet of Gozzards Ford, adjacent to Abingdon Airfield. He comes highly reccomended.
He gave it a proper old fashioned look and said " Be 80 quid to a ton mate. Next week do yer? "
My mistake was perhaps telling the first bloke it was from a boat..........................................
