I found a good way to clean my hull bottom!

[LS1Nova]

Hopefully all the time I spent on the back of the boat sanding down the high spots and filling the lows will pay off and help me squeek out some better numbers

[LS1Nova]

:coolgleamA:You are da man! That looks great!

HI Howard! Nice first post!!

[glassdave]

Then shortly after that I learned a valuable lesson about how long it takes gel to kick in a pain gun!

yea . . . try an limit the length of time spent on the tech line while gel is in gun . . .

Amen to that! I got a good system down after I had to clean/scrape out my gun. After every cup I would shoot some mek through it and douche out the cup. That seemed to make all the difference for me.

Thats actually a pretty important step that is often overlooked. What happens is the gel left on the inside of the cup after you run the cup dry is still catalyzed and will continue to kick. If you add fresh gel to that the small amount of already catalyzed gel left in the cup will mix in and cause little blobs to form in the fresh gel and will really screw chit up.

[glassdave]

I have to give a HUGE thank you to GlassDave for all the technical help and guideance. Thank you again Dave! I couldn't have mustered up the coconuts to do it without ya!

No problem at all man, i actually enjoy helping the do-it-yourselfers. Heck I'm just gonna phone in my work from now on. I did a graphics job in Illinois in 63 phone calls .(Just kid'in RunninHot, grasshopper did a fantastic job)

[MattBMiller]

WOW!! Looks great! That boats come a long way since I looked at it back here in Michigan!

[DKerns]

Looks AWESOME Frank..........You are what I would call "multi-talented"!!

Lot better than the cell phone pic i got a week or so ago!!

[Offshoredrillin]

Dave will get plenty of time on the Tiger next winter. the 20 was easy compared to this.

[BradB]

Dave will get plenty of time on the Tiger next winter. the 20 was easy compared to this.

Shouldnt he finish one project first before you give him another one??!!

[ThruHull]

Looks good Frank!

[Offshoredrillin]

Shouldnt he finish one project first before you give him another one??!!

lol, thats why I said next winter......you should be helping...thanks for the foam

[DiamondPerformance]

Were you using the Miller Lite bottle to hold the resin?!!!

[rschap1]

Awesome!!

[Blue Thunder]

Very cool Frank! That's probably my next project on the old girl. You make it look easy.

BT

[jetmech]

Hopefully all the time I spent on the back of the boat sanding down the high spots and filling the lows will pay off and help me squeek out some better numbers

Wishful thinking there buddy ... it'll be slower because you just sanded out the secret powerplay hydrodynamic fast running hull chit.

[LS1Nova]

Were you using the Miller Lite bottle to hold the resin?!!!

That Miller light bottle is what kept my nerves in place as I was flipping the boat!

[glassdave]

yes . . . beer and operating heavy equipment always go hand in hand

[in the pink]

HI Howard! Nice first post!!

No more turd stain jokes! Now we gotta go out and get some fresh photos.

[LS1Nova]

I'm sure the first trip out it will be terd stained! Unless that Duratec is some kind of magic coating.

[Offshoredrillin]

I'm sure the first trip out it will be terd stained! Unless that Duratec is some kind of magic coating.

leverage really helps here in the bay Frank, then salt away.

[t500hps]

I'm sure the first trip out it will be terd stained! Unless that Duratec is some kind of magic coating.

Just finished 2 coats of wax on the BOTTOM of the boat to keep the stains away for awhile!!!!