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  1. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Just before bringing her home. :cool: For the people that would like to know. # 1 Sandblast # 2 Wash with Dawn dish soap # 3 Scuff with red scotch bright. # 4 Alodine scuff in with red scotch bright and then...
  2. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? :mad: It looks like rain this weekend so, I go up at five a started in on her. Scuffed up the green and shot the third and forth coat on her. Stripped the tape and this is as good as it gets. She will sit in...
  3. ctriverfish

    Soooo... Guys? what kinda fishing ya doing and some regional info!

    Re: Soooo... Guys? what kinda fishing ya doing and some regional info! At lunch today I gat a chance to wet the line. Picked up a Brook trout 12 or so inches long, the trout are starting to hit as the water starts to cool down. Just as the trout start to hit deer season is about to starts. Now...
  4. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Hi all. I got to work on the old gall today sanded the sides and taped her off and shot two coats of hunter green. This weekend l will finish the painting on the outside. Then she will sit in the sun for two...
  5. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? She is back from blast. I washed her down dried her off and Alodine her. A light scuff rewashed her with just water. She sat in the sun for 2 days to dry off. I pulled her in this morning wiped her down with...
  6. ctriverfish

    When did Murphy visit you?

    Murphy stopped to see me when: I was cleaning the tin on the outside of my transom hit it with the angle grinder with a soft wire wheel and presto no more tine. Murphy GO HOME. LOL
  7. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Stripping paint is fun. ? NOT? This is the second 5 gallon bucket this week. Almost ready to fire up the DA and sand the sides.
  8. ctriverfish

    what's under YOUR ribs?

    Re: what's under YOUR ribs? Found all sorts of things the last one under the splash well was full of ants, cleaned them out with an air hose and a rubber tube when I was checking for dripping rivets. No Bullets. Bird shot but no unspent rounds.
  9. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? :) Well what to my wondering eyes should appear!!!! It?s not even July yet. The floor showed up today yup 3 ? week before it should have. 60? wide and 192? long 3/16 of an inch thick. Where the he** am I...
  10. ctriverfish

    1979 StarCraft with a small area of transom rot

    Re: 1979 StarCraft with a small area of transom rot
  11. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Now let the insides dry and start to strip. Got one side finished and started to sand off the paint that the stripper will not tuch. Did get a good coat of self etching primer on the transom . Man time fly?s...
  12. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Ok the rain held off this weekend but someone turned up the heat 90 plus all 3 days with the humidity hovering around 70 % but I must make hay when the sun shines. So broke out the angle grinder and started to...
  13. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? What should I use to clean the alum before applying Gluvit to the rivets and seams?
  14. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? The rain went away for almost 2 hours last night and I went to work. A patch about 6 ft long to the water line all striped and splash well reinstalled. At this rate it will be a month of Sundays before I will be...
  15. ctriverfish

    1968 Star Trek-V 18 ft'er... "Going where no man has gone before" custom rebuild

    Re: So I'm aboard the Starcraft remodel board with a 18 footer Re: So I'm aboard the Starcraft remodel board with a 18 footer Looks like a Mariner to me also.
  16. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? :) So back to work on this old girl. After what seems like a week of rain I am back at it. Looks like she has 4 different coats of paint on her, Blue, Green, yellow, and the off white of the factory paint. A good...
  17. ctriverfish

    Expanding (pour in) Flotation Foam and Aluminum Boats

    Re: Expanding (pour in) Flotation Foam and Aluminum Boats Yes you are correct polyisocarboate is not good in water but Polycarbonate is plastic and will not degrade in water.
  18. ctriverfish

    It's stripping time. 1974 starcraft Mariner

    Well it stripping time. Just stated stripping the Mariner and under all the old paint is a fine mist coat of Zink-chromate primer the yellow stuff. It?s stuck like glue. Stripper will take it off but only after all the other paint is off and a heavy coat of stripper is reapplied and let sit...
  19. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Just finished the print of the CC sorry the print is not showing up.
  20. ctriverfish

    Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? ( We Have The Technology )

    Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Re: Restore and Rebuild 74 Mariner 18? Transom finished and a big hole in the tin??? The fabricator in me took over. Back the cut out with 2” wide 1/8” thick strips of alum. So with a tube of 5200 and closed end rivets and what seemed like weeks “ 4...
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