i have been a busy man today

[Talon2.5]

i cleaned and washed out the bildge area that we took out the leaking pump from and i started looking at the rest of the boat and went into a long project

heres a before pic

[Talon2.5]

heres what it looks like now, i have some sore fingers on my right hand!!! me a razor blade and a billion little stickers

notice anything different? :eek: :D

[Talon2.5]

yep each and every one of those red checkers was a seperate sticker :eek: and i had to take each one of with a razor blade and then each ones glue residue !! :eek: :eek: :eek: :rolleyes:

man i'm beat!! but since they were faded and tore up she looks cleaner now :D

and now i'm on to a cold bud and i got the grill fired up and gonna have me a steak :D

[sho305]

Wow! You de-flagged it. Now what you going to do....? Hmmm:)

[Talon2.5]

ooohhhhh i got a fewideas for it in the future :D ;)

[175checkmate]

I can't believe they came off that well, or did they. Looks clean, slick and fast.

You said you where reducing the weight. But isent that taking it a little far. What's the weight savings of the stickers. LOL.

[Capt.Insane-o]

Where the stickers were? We pealed a buch of crap off my buddies wellcraft. After 7 years it was quite obvious where the stickers were.:(

[sho305]

Ahhh, wait until he starts mixing up metal flake!!!

[WILDMAN]

Skip! Ready for some flames?

[Talon2.5]

heheheh yep wildman i been thinking about stripping it and painting it with some of those killer colors you use :D


they left a small sign that they were there until i hit it with the buffing compound, but the top is painted and from the rubrail down is gelcoat, but you can still see the lethal weapon II and the factory stripes that burned into the gelcoat under the paint on the top when the light hits it just right

maybe toward the end of the summer or something i can do something with a paint job ;)

they had to come off sooner or later and they were peeling and cracking and faded so i went at it and got them off, man what a job that was!!

[TTriton]

Its a bit late now.. But next time you have to remove vynil stickers from a boat use a pressure cleaner. We have to redue our tow boats every year and have to remove a bunch of stickers. We use a pressure cleaner and it blows the stickers right off and even removes the glue resadue.. Using a razor blade like we used to doesn't take off the glue and takes a bunch of time....

[Superdave]

Removes glue residue very well.
DAve

[sho305]

Yes, good idea. I have used naptha and lighter fluid to get the stick off. Let it soak a little, then wipe. The other way is to use a heat gun/hair dryer. If the planets are in the right spot they will peel off nice glue and all.

[737jetmech]

Talon2.5, I like the boat without the decals.After removing decals on my Liberator I also noticed fade in the gelcoat under the right light.After a little light compounding and polish it is very hard to see.I still see it because I know its there,most people don't... The factory engine cowl decals were the worst I've ever had to remove.I used a heatgun ,being careful not to burn the paint it took forever:eek:

[737jetmech]

After color change...

[BathTubBabe]

I remember when you spend hours putting them on.

:D

Jessica might not want you to Will it to her after you deflagged it, but I think it will depend on what new design you do next. ;)

It looks good Skip :)

[boataddict26]

Looks good and ready for new paint!! For stickers I use a heat gun, a gasket scraper and Goo-Gone. Works real good.:)

[TTriton]

Goo gone , heat guns, vynil sticker removers.. I have tried them all.. I still stand behind my pressure cleaner... Plus its great when a cat walks by... you know how much a cat hates water.. Well they hate 2000 PSI water even more :)

[sho305]

Cats, Hehehe:D

I was wacking hornets with mine one day! It was fun, but you had to get close and hit them; the cold water would kill them if you blasted them for a minute. If you did not stay on them and cool them off good, they would come back to life after you knocked them out of the air. Had to train them to stay away from my boat;) The guy next door finally got a new chimney, so he will not be supplying the area with them anymore. I went through over 20 cans of spray last summer. Three days and they would be in my car again. Had to let loose with a few cans in his yard just to slow them down!:rolleyes:

[Capt.Insane-o]

Is everything pissed off up here or is it just me?

[Talon2.5]

well the pressure washer sounds pretty darn good compared to what i went through :eek: :D

i scraped each and every one with a single edge razor blade than used some PPG DT reducer to take off the glue then buffed it my fingers are still sore 2 days after doing it :eek:

jetmech, i like the color change you did, looks good!!

i figured with my thoughts of doing some paint in the future and the fact the red checkers were fdaded and looking pretty bad i may as well bite the bullet and get them off while no one was boating that day ;)

[sho305]

I get gallons of naptha from the hardware/paint store here. It is a little hotter than lighter fluid and works great for getting glue off, washing parts/paint prep, and is cheap. Lighter fluid works on stickers too, you have to take a wet rag and hold it there a minute and it softens-that is the trick. Took off lots of old pin stripe that way. (If the heat gun does not work) Also, I run cold water on them and then the pressure washer seems to work better.

The hornets had the run of the place here for a while...til I got here:) I found this bug kill spray for inside...I could spray in the shed and close it and they all died. The problem is no cold temps here in the last few years. A hard freeze kills 80% of them. Lots of junk and open structures here I got rid of for them too. Last winter I saw guys building foundations in a commercial area all winter nonstop in Traverse; ground never froze. Yesterday morning it was 13 below here, maybe that will help.

Tons of mice here too from the fields, have to be on them all the time or have a cat. They stay in the field in the summer. I have moth balls in my cars and boats stored, that helps. Ground moles are a pain here....sometimes gophers until you get a pellet gun:D No trouble otherwise except the west nile from all the trillion skeeters here...and no chemicals to kill them. Same deal, a good freeze will hurt the mosquitoes too. If dry out, or not by water they are not bad here. Right now there is not one skeeter out.:) Have not mowed the grass for three months either:D ;)

[Talon2.5]

i had a can of naptha i got at home depot but damn if i could find it when i needed it!!

[sho305]

Hear you there! Just bought a bunch of those metal shelves and that helped lots. The ones that tab together with a hammer are great; I smacked it together with a piece of 2x4 in about 5 minutes; very sturdy. The bolt together ones take two hours:rolleyes: The plastic sags with weight...Gawd, I'm the shelf expert now:( :rolleyes: