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inspectorlance
03-07-2004, 11:40 PM
I have started wet sanding my Stream, and it looks like 600 will take about a week to complete the job. I am thinking of going to 400 grit, Has anyone ever had to go to 400 ? I just dont want to go too far. When I use the 600, I have to sand a 6" area for 5 minutes to get through the discolored gel coat. The white is very yellow/ brown compared to places that were covered by seat panels. The colored areas seem to come around alot better, just the white seems to be the problem.

pyro
03-08-2004, 08:05 AM
are you planning on clearcoating it? If you're going to just sand and re-buff, 400 is hell to rub back out of gel!

inspectorlance
03-08-2004, 12:33 PM
Wet sanding is Hell ether way. I did some more testing last night, and 400 takes alot of 600 go get the scraches out. This will not be fun. and now its sunny and 62 in Seattle !!

pyro
03-09-2004, 07:49 AM
I tried to sand out a fine scuffed area with 2000 last year, and I didn't own a compound strong enough to buff it back out, hand OR machine!

Techno
03-09-2004, 06:24 PM
There have been posts about using various chemical cleaners. I bet this would work. Clean the bad areas or the whole boat first and then sand the cleaned, uncoated gel.
Since the color and covered areas do sand but not the dirty white.

dean jones
03-10-2004, 08:36 PM
I don't know where you will find it but my boat was the same way. My white was yellow, Black was a white fim, and red was white fim. I used a compound called G3 and a buffer. Took me about 45min. to do that. Then waxed it looks like new.

Try a paint shop or somewhere like that to get the compound.