Gelcoat repairs, final finish issue
Submitted by Mooseknuckle on Mon, 2017-06-26 11:45
Hi everyone
Hoping someone can help with an issue I have on my fibreglass boat.
Did some small (screwhole) repairs in the transom and everything has gone fine with gelcoat but having trouble with the final finish.
I have wet sanded progressively down to 2000 grit but when polishing the finish looks dull and doesn't match the surrounding (untouched) gloss finish.
Unfortunately hull is black and shows the imperfections really well.
Any ideas?
I am thinking I need more aggressive polish to cut out the dull (sanded) area and then a nice wax to finish but hoping for others ideas.
Thanks in advance
Danyul
Walfootrot
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Thinking you may get it with
Thinking you may get it with a cut and polish, at a push could try one of the tinted car polish that removes scratches in the black, but would try the T cut first.
May have a little job for you soon....
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
z00m
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Wax
From 2000 grit wet and dry you would need to go to something like a good quality compound to remove the rest of the scratches (from sanding) and then polish and then wax.
Bluedog
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I could never get that
I could never get that gelcoat repair stuff a nice white colour, was always a dull white against my 15yr old gelcoat. But from what ive read about other people using the stuff its the opposite where the repair is usually brighter than the exisiting so figured im just no good at it and must be doing something wrong!
little johnny
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Don't get black boat dan
:):) does that help,
little johnny
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Like car moose
Have to paint whole panel. Done same on new swifty . Fixed all screw holes painted whole back end. Easyier