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Spareparts:

I thought I was the only one crazy enough to toss those harborfreight tough up HVLP guns. Its the only way to go! Skip the clean up - besides I've never had one shoot the same after I shooting two part expoy anyways. I see they now have a full size gun on sale for 12.99 even better.

Kamikaze

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I'm too cheap to toss em, I use the left over acetone from cleaning up everything else to soak the guns in, after the gel hardens, I takem apart and pick the gel out with a small screwdriver and a dental pick

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Thanks for everyone's reply

I think I'm going to paint it. These areas are in the bilge and on the transom so I can just paint the entire transom and this way if the paint shade is not exactly it'll be hard to notice.

I talked to Yachtpaint.com today and they reccommended I wipe the area with 202 cleaner and then sand with 150-160 grit paper and then use 202 again and then apply 2 coats of pre kote and then topcoat They didn't reccommend using antifoulant because I don't leave my boat in the water. They said I could roll it on.

The aerasol spray bottles only work with gelcoat if you thin it out and then that makes it hard to coat. But for all you guys who still spray gelcoat, the main guy in the tech division said there is a new additive (no name) to add to the gelcoat and it makes the gelcoat smooth and dry hard, so less sanding.

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I had my neighbor ,who runs a autobody shop , color match paint to my v , and sprayed color and Emron clear on my transom and it turned out great!

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I hate Painting !!. >:( ;D