Now, it's time for the final results of the marine paint stripping experiment.
Before I show you the main sailing boat because I had some results with that
this is a speedboat that's in the process of being restored it's an
Almarine Seafire and this dates from the 1970's and it's covered in paint. I left this on for
48 hours too and I'm about to give it a jet wash and I'll tell you exactly how I got
on, in addition I also experimented with a PVC dinghy. Sounds crazy I know but I was
wearing PVC gloves, no problems and also you put this stuff down PVC pipes, no
problems. We'll come back to that in a minute.
Now, with regards to the sailing boat if you missed the first episode I used
'STRIPPIT' marine paint stripper and you're supposed to leave it for 24 hours and then the paint
comes off, we had no results but after 48 hours of what a difference look at all
this. This was 'INTERNATIONAL' white gloss it's a single pack paint and it's almost taken it
all off, that's within an extra 24 hours, amazing hey. This dark blue
strip here is two pack paint and it's had no effect at all.....zero
the anti foul and the anti foul primer from years ago
nothing, it's done absolutely zilch she's had no effect at all and to be fair this
is what I wanted to actually take off zero. Now, this is before and this is
after, what a difference. It'll certainly make your life a lot
easier when it comes to sanding if you have tons and tons of paint on the boat
like this does. Same here with this dinghy, that little bit of orange there
that's just from a drive scrape I haven't quite jet washed this yet but I
can see that it started to shift some of the paint. It had been on for 48 hours so
it's doing good by the looks of things. As far as this dinghy goes
unfortunately nothing at all. The marine stripper that was left on there the same for
48 hours and it hasn't cleaned it, it has a bleached, it hasn't brightened it
up, it hasn't even taken any paint flakes off there's a little bit of paint on
there and it hasn't done anything at all so when it comes to the dinghy at this
moment of time acetone is the best thing for restoring that. Now back to the Almarine
Seafire speed boat after a jet wash quite a lot of the paint came off. This has so
many layers of paint on it but the paint that doesn't move at all is the same
every single time it must be a two-pack paint so with regards to something that
has so much paint on like this seventies speedboat this Strippit marine paint
stripper will help you to break it down a little bit but really at the end of
the day the only way you're gonna get through it is with a good old fashioned
sander, and if you use them both together paint stripper and the sander I
think it's gonna make life a lot easier, so I will probably use it again in the
future, however, please don't underestimate this stuff because at the
end of the day a little hole in the glove was just enough to burn my finger
so I wouldn't say it does what it says on the tin but it certainly burns your
fingers so good luck happy boating
you