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Jon and V Boat Conversions & Modifications
16' Valco V-Bottom Conversion
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<blockquote data-quote="Bacarat" data-source="post: 186182" data-attributes="member: 5093"><p>Here's after a lot of stripping on both sides. The boat was originally just plain ugly plain white. I didn't want to pay for a sandblasting so I used a 4 1/2 inch grinder with a bunch of 3M sandblaster disks to strip most all of the paint off. This was ALOT more work than I had originally thought it would be. Many, many, many hours of tedious grinding and I went through at least 8 of those 3M disks before I was done. I couldn't get her down to plain aluminum as the paint was very hard to get off. In retrospect I should have maybe used some chemicals on it but I started it this way and was in it for the long haul. Don't ever want to do that again lol</p><p></p><p>After the stripping I used a cutting wheel on my grinder to remove the middle bench seat as per my plans <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bacarat, post: 186182, member: 5093"] Here's after a lot of stripping on both sides. The boat was originally just plain ugly plain white. I didn't want to pay for a sandblasting so I used a 4 1/2 inch grinder with a bunch of 3M sandblaster disks to strip most all of the paint off. This was ALOT more work than I had originally thought it would be. Many, many, many hours of tedious grinding and I went through at least 8 of those 3M disks before I was done. I couldn't get her down to plain aluminum as the paint was very hard to get off. In retrospect I should have maybe used some chemicals on it but I started it this way and was in it for the long haul. Don't ever want to do that again lol After the stripping I used a cutting wheel on my grinder to remove the middle bench seat as per my plans :D [/QUOTE]
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