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Post Icon Posted: June 02 2004,10:53 am Post # 1 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
The gelcoat on my '78 Eliminator is all original and it's starting to get a little dull in spots, so my question to the experts is:

What can a cheap bastard like me use to make it all pretty again?  :drink

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Post Icon Posted: June 02 2004,2:33 pm Post # 2 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Well this is what I use, it's the shit!.. :good  :good

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Post Icon Posted: June 02 2004,4:17 pm Post # 3 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Quote (GoFastRacer @ June 02 2004,2:33 pm)
Well this is what I use, it's the shit!.. :good  :good

RRM needs some of that stuff. I have never heard of it. But hmmm well Im a girl and all.

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Quote (GoFastRacer @ June 02 2004,2:33 pm)
Well this is what I use, it's the shit!.. :good  :good

RRM needs some of that stuff. I have never heard of it. But hmmm well Im a girl and all.

Well it's not the cheapest but so far this stuff has worked the best of all that I've tried, it brought the finish out looking like new!. :good  :good
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Post Icon Posted: June 02 2004,9:18 pm Post # 5 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
I don't know....That stuff I got from Warlock25 worked pretty good.  The boat hasn't been waxed in 15 years and was sitting out uncovered for about 4 years in the mountains.  I took some of that Wax Frenzy stuff to it and it cleaned it right up!  It hasn't shined like this since I've owned it and I didn't even have to work the stuff in.....just applied it and wiped it off.  Here's his website for the wax frenzy stuff http://www.attn-to-detail.com/  It's kinda pricey, but it worked for me. :good



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Quote (GoFastRacer @ June 02 2004,2:33 pm)
Well this is what I use, it's the shit!.. :good  :good

Doesn't rubbing compound scratch it up a bit?



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When it's totally oxidized it takes it off, the second one is finer and the third one is the polish!.. :good
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When it's totally oxidized it takes it off, the second one is finer and the third one is the polish!.. :good

Man!!! That's too much work!  Wanna borrow my 5 kids?  That's how I get things waxed around here :laugh   $5.00 goes a long ways for kids....they'll do just about anything for 5 bucks, including waxing a boat :rotflmao  :rotflmao



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When it's totally oxidized it takes it off, the second one is finer and the third one is the polish!.. :good

Man!!! That's too much work!  Wanna borrow my 5 kids?  That's how I get things waxed around here :laugh   $5.00 goes a long ways for kids....they'll do just about anything for 5 bucks, including waxing a boat :rotflmao  :rotflmao

:laugh This stuff is easy, in fact the wife did the Daytona in a couple of hours with a buffer!. :good
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Yeah, that's what I do too.  When the kids ain't around, I send the wife out to do it  :eek :D  :laugh  :laugh

I can see it now as soon as she reads this... :beat  :beat

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Yeah, that's what I do too.  When the kids ain't around, I send the wife out to do it  :eek :D  :laugh  :laugh

I can see it now as son as she reads this... :beat  :beat

:good  :rotflmao  :rotflmao
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Quote (GoFastRacer @ June 02 2004,2:33 pm)
Well this is what I use, it's the shit!.. :good  :good

Thanks guys, I think what Art is using is what I'll need to go with for starters, but that Wax Frenzy looks like some good shit for the long term.  :good

Art, do I pick this up at an auto body supply store?

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Yeah that's where I got it. :good But you don't need that much, I was surprised how much a few drops will do, there's probably enough left to do 5 more boats. It comes in smaller containers, the stuff ain't the cheapest but it sure takes the oxidation out!.. :good
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Yeah, this ought to do the trick. Aside from a couple hairline cracks, my gelcoat is damn near like new.  :)

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Yeah, this ought to do the trick. Aside from a couple hairline cracks, my gelcoat is damn near like new.  :)

:good  :good
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