79Nautique-polish question

bkhallpass wrote: So why the polish questions? What's Poland got to do with this? BKH

That's phunny?!!?

So why the polish questions? What's Poland got to do with this? BKH

MaddMarxx wrote: What...no pole polishing jokes??

It seems to be all in meathod and materials?!!?

Riley have you tried a heavy duty buffer and some course compound, it will burn paint right off a car if your not careful. Proly do the same for clearcoat.

My Mustang has a clear coat on the deck and the raised part of the hull. It is yellowed. If you look closely, you may be able to see it on the transom. I have cleaned and waxed the boat and from 10 feet away it looks good, but close up you can see it. It comes off by applying packing tape to it and ripping it off, but that is a slow process. I think it has actually helped preserved the gel coat, but once the boat is seaworthy, I will be trying to remove it. I was wondering if you ever ran into it and knew any tricks for removal.

BTW, the pic is from PO. It shines and looks a heck of a lot better than that since cleaning and waxing it with Collinites.

Bruce, No but there are clear gel coats. It will add some "depth" to the look but it won't be any shinier than buffed and waxed gel. What are you thinking?? It will not cover up any problems.

clear gel

Pete, you ever see a clear coat sprayed over gel coat?

there's the hard way, the lone way, the easy way and the daumb ass way, you guys choose the option that works best for you.

If you listen to my suggestion you'll be done in about 20-30 minutes or less with great results and you don't have to worry about it turning yellow, getting scratched or flaking off because you had your head up your ass and painted the f**king thing with clear coat.

And how Do I know the clear coat route isn't the way to go is because I let some dumb ass clear coat the cover plate on the bow of mine after it was polished to a mirror finished and after it was painted it looked like sh*t but then it was too late and I just lived with it. So do what you want, the hard long wrong way or the short easy right way you choose.

larry, It looks like you have the straight pylon like I do. I did pull mine out of the boat and chucked it up in the lathe. Since it had the brush finish on it originally, I turned it slow and went at it with the belt sander. Then by hand with some finer abrasive strips. I did try some buffing but didn't like the results.

Thanks for the info guys. Yes Chris, that's the stuff I was trying to remember. What better way to spend a cold winters weekend than....well, you know where I'm going with that. Oh yea...and watching payton, oops, I mean, eli manning get traunced in the SB.

I used a buffing wheel on a drill with stainless steel stick compound and some elbow grease.You can also try jewelers rouge in stick form also and that should work.After doing that take some never dull and use that for the final touch up.When your done clear it with some Krylon in a can with thin coats.It works great and it will keep your pole from tarnishing again.

75, try hitting it with a buffing compound and a buffer, it will definitely clean the corrosin then comeback with the metal polish, if it was perfectly straight i would tell you to ship it U.P.S to me and i could spin it on the lathe and possibly could even take a clean up cut on it, that also would be out of the kindness in my heart
Eric