Bringing your boats paintjob back to life.

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Bringing your boats paintjob back to life.

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Seeing as I'm redoing the floor, getting a new console and (hopefully) upgrading the engine on my boat, I might as well give the hull a birthday too. What do you guys use to bring the shine back on a dull, faded paint Job?

I've been told CLR, but I'm a bit suss on that. I've used Jiff before and it brings it up ok. I haven't got access to a buffing wheel, so polish and waxing would be a bit of a mission.

What's your secrets and shortcuts? (I'm a bit lazy by nature, so I'm probably not going to like the answers! :bonk: )


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Cheese cloth, cutting compound and a lot of hard work works too! On the car I have used Acetone to clean greasy marks off (white paint) but you want to test it out first discretely and then wax afterwards. It's kind of like dry cleaning for your car.
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Give it a coat of allybrite. Just put it in a spray bottle and spray it on, wait a couple of minutes and hose it off. This will clean it properly. Then a light polish will bring it right up.
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Cheers fellas. The Allybrite sounds a lot easier than the cheesecloth! :-)
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Yep Allybrite works well..........gets the red dirt out of the paint.
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I used Nu Finish polish, came up really good but obviously a bit of elbow grease is required.
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scottmac wrote:Cheers fellas. The Allybrite sounds a lot easier than the cheesecloth! :-)
I never said it was going to be easy. Night have to try the Allybrite out myself.
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Scottmac - Allybrite as above, mix as per the instructions, I use 1 part allybrite to 5 parts water (strong mix) spray on, wait a couple minutes, do small sections at a time - don't let the allybrite dry then hose off straight away (best done at night/very early morning) on cold alloy. Then use truck wash with a reasonably strong mix with water in a bucket. Use straight away with a broom on the wet alloy, then hose off before it dry's. I use this on road train trucks out at the mine and it works a treat. Cheapest place to buy allybrite is Maxiparts truck parts on Stuart highway Winnellie or Supercheap. You can get 1 litre bottles 5's and 20's. PM if any questions and I will help you out.
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Any tips for a powdercoated hull?
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I used a boat cleaner product from Harvey distributors and the alloy Came up like new, although when I took it out next the salt water made it look extremely crappy?

Anyone had this issue?
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Since we on the tropic of paint job....anyone know a ball park respray price for just the sides and top. Thinking refreshing my topender
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SCOTTMAC, SHARKBAIT is on the ball. NU FINISH is the best product I have ever used, cars,boats, etc. Sure a bit of work but its not hard scrubbing just wipe on, buff off. A BRIILIANT SHINE and will bring the paint back to life. Water will bead for 12 months or more.
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Had a go with the Allybrite today. Came up pretty good, but had to do a couple of applications. I made the second application a bit stronger (4/1). Just needs a polish now.

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You cant fish those muddy top end rivers now. It will get dirty :mrgreen:
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Don't worry mate, it's about a once in a decade job for me! :roll:
Thought I might as well do it while I've got the whole boat stripped out for a refirb. I might start a post covering the whole refirb. I'm desperately trying to scrape the pennys together so I can go to the boat show andbuy myself a 20 grand Father's Day present to go on the back. :mrgreen:
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