Oh no! My pride and joy got all scuffed up!
Well, here's the good news for this: It's
actually pretty darn easy to repair a vinyl rubrail like this.
Hi! i'm Lenny Rudow from BoatUS Magazine and today
let's learn just how simple it is to make that look like new again
First off, you need an assortment of sandpaper. You want
100 grit, 200 grit, 600 grit and 800 or maybe 1,000
grit. Basically you want to span from the rough
grit to the really fine grit. Then you're also going to need
Interlux 202 solvent, a clean rag and
blue masking tape. Well, any color masking tape truly, but i got blue and that's
what we're going to start off by using
Now i'm going to start out with 100 grit, the really rough stuff,
just to knock off the really big chunks here
All right, all the big stuff is gone. Now as you can see, this 100 grit leaves
a discoloration on the rail. Really that's tons and tons of tiny
little scratches, so now we're gonna step it up
I'm gonna grab some 200 grit
OK on to the next level
OK, I'm down to the last level but people
do not let our editing job fool you. This takes a while
you gotta plan on spending plenty of time sanding off
all those little bits and burrs. And come to think of it what I'm noticing right
now, shame on me, I should have put on some gloves so i
didn't get all dirty. Yuck!
Now here's where the Interlux 202 solvent comes in. Remember people,
you don't want to be breathing this in. This is for use in well ventilated
areas only. If it's used indoors in any
case you absolutely have to have a respirator.
Grab our rag
and just get some 202 on the corner. Now when i take my rag off the top, I'm
going to put the cap right back on. I'm not going to leave it sitting there
open while i lean over the can
And then you just rub it down the rub rail
And this will help seal up all those teeny tiny little scratches
that the last sandpaper left behind. OK, well as you can see, the 202 really
smoothed it out and fused together all those tiny little scratches.
Is it a perfect job? No but I'm not a perfect person
I'll tell you one thing though, that looks one heck of a lot better than that
rub rail did when I set foot on the boat uh, what about two hours ago here, so I'm
pretty darn happy. And I hope you enjoyed this video, folks
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[WAVES CRASHING]