How many section passes do you do on your first step? Or do you keep sanding until you see no more oxidation in the water then move on to the 1000 girt..So how do you know to sand enough to to move on to step 2? Thanks
I'm 4 months late but the best way to wet sand is to buy guide coat. You spread the guide coat over the surface after it has been cleaned and dried. Then wet the surface and sand paper and sand until the guide coat is gone. Repeat for each step up in grit. Use a spray bottle. Buckets can get dirty and mess up your paper. Put a drop of dish soap in the bottle of water.
How does guide coat help you know if oxidation has been removed? For removing the previos stages sanding scratches sude, but guide coat for oxidation?o@@dwayneroberts6616
IT takes a lot of work to get a boat that size back. Will this be a five step process with something like these steps? 1.Wet Sand 2. Stark Level R 3. Menzerna 400 4. Stark Surface Prep 5. Starke Hyperhold or Jescar Ultra Lock Thanks, Bruce Brandeberry Marblehead, OH
Something like that! 1. Wet sand 2. Level R on wool 3. Elevate on purple foamed wool 4. Elevate on orange Force foam 5. Surface prep 6. DNA ceramic coating
@@tylerdominiak3210 Tough question. Not necessarily. Yellow wool will give you a better shine and gloss to the boat. Purple wool will give you better correction
Yes, because the abralon discs are soft, 800 by hand would be more aggressive than 500 abralon. So for this boat we are doing 800 grit by hand, 500, 1000, & then 2000 abralon. This will always stay true
@@zippymarinerestorationsthen, you drink it. This is specifically why we have boat yards, to keep things as clean as possible but if people don't care then sorry future boaters, we got stupid and lazy before you got here.
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Hello is ont possible on bleu Hull olso? Is it work?
Thanks
Yes 🙌
Another great video. My dark blue gelcoat has some pigtails from a previous sanding. How can I get rid of those before polishing? Thanks Simon!
Sand them out by hand and rebuff.
Hey Simon what is that hose nozzle called? I see those often but don't know what they're called.
Twist nozzle
It’s also known as a firehouse hose nozzle
How many section passes do you do on your first step? Or do you keep sanding until you see no more oxidation in the water then move on to the 1000 girt..So how do you know to sand enough to to move on to step 2? Thanks
I sand until the water turns light white to clear, suggesting the oxidation is mostly eliminated from the surface. Then I move onto the next step
I'm 4 months late but the best way to wet sand is to buy guide coat. You spread the guide coat over the surface after it has been cleaned and dried. Then wet the surface and sand paper and sand until the guide coat is gone. Repeat for each step up in grit. Use a spray bottle. Buckets can get dirty and mess up your paper. Put a drop of dish soap in the bottle of water.
How does guide coat help you know if oxidation has been removed? For removing the previos stages sanding scratches sude, but guide coat for oxidation?o@@dwayneroberts6616
IT takes a lot of work to get a boat that size back. Will this be a five step process with something like these steps?
1.Wet Sand
2. Stark Level R
3. Menzerna 400
4. Stark Surface Prep
5. Starke Hyperhold or Jescar Ultra Lock
Thanks, Bruce Brandeberry
Marblehead, OH
Something like that!
1. Wet sand
2. Level R on wool
3. Elevate on purple foamed wool
4. Elevate on orange Force foam
5. Surface prep
6. DNA ceramic coating
You like the purple foam wool on force rotation better than yellow wool on rotary ?
@@tylerdominiak3210 Tough question. Not necessarily. Yellow wool will give you a better shine and gloss to the boat. Purple wool will give you better correction
What about the dura gold premium wet sand disc (silicone carbonate) compared to Mirka since half the price ???
Never used before, sounds interesting. I’ll have to give them a shot!
Is 800 hand sanding more aggressive then abralon 500?Curious because I’ve never used abralon 500 just 1000. Thanks
Yes, because the abralon discs are soft, 800 by hand would be more aggressive than 500 abralon. So for this boat we are doing 800 grit by hand, 500, 1000, & then 2000 abralon. This will always stay true
meanwhile let's feed some fish with oxidation 🤣
Sorry our video offended you. Nature filters and cleanses itself overtime
Gas & oils go into the water from some boats too. Oxidation isn’t gonna hurt anything.
Right? What a jacka$$
@@topdockproOK, said nobody, ever who lives near an old dump, industrial site or mine... You enjoy the toxins sweetheart.
@@zippymarinerestorationsthen, you drink it. This is specifically why we have boat yards, to keep things as clean as possible but if people don't care then sorry future boaters, we got stupid and lazy before you got here.