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Re: painted hull back to no paint

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Depends alot on what type of paint and primer system was used and what level of abrasive prep was performed. If you are lucky they used a simple system that can easily be removed with chemical paint removers and they didn't sand the metal. If the job was done correctly it's likely that paint remover will not perform adequately and if the paint did come off you'll find a sandblasted surface at the bottom of the pile which, if you are not going to repaint will typically look bad. Is the paint failing? If it is peeling how does the aluminum look underneath?
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Re: painted hull back to no paint

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Re: painted hull back to no paint

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TJ, welcome to the forum, you can ask dave, but I'm sure he used metelloc epoxy primer, base coat clear coat, prolly need Chaps to media blast , acid wash and get the battle ship look.
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Re: painted hull back to no paint

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Aluminum Clone Owner- I don't think your hull's metal prep for paint is a huge problem for you cleaning the hull of paint. If you use a stripper- to get the bulk of the paint off- then 90+% of the paint comes off with plastic trowels- like tile adhesive in reverse. The stripper will get the majority of the bulk- it may leave some buried in the anchor pattern but not much volume. The seams, crevices, and weld faces can be hard to scrape of melted/dissolved paint but they're the exception.

When you're done, etching will lift a very significant remaining percentage (80% of remnant) of paint film remnants buried in the anchor pattern surface of the metal. If the etching is followed by simple pressure washer- hot is best- and then a perhaps some repeated etching (?) the surface will come reasonably clean as bare metal.

The BEST would be to media blast, after stripping chemically, as this cuts off the old anchor pattern and its retained film particles or strips. But your boat's painted surfaces' cleaning or stripping is a matter of you choosing to do the work or hiring it out -either way you look at the project? So I can't see that your goal is really any harder to attain if your hire the work- versus use a limited means more available to you? In one method you'll expend your own effort, consumables, equipment and time; in the other you'll expend dollars to get the work and time spent for you.... stripping the boat is stripping the boat.

Good luck with your boat's surface treatments, look forward to before and after pictures.

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