Club 80-90 Forums

Please Please Please can anubody help

I have a fiberglass fliptop and there was some artex like paint over the fiberglass. As you can imagine it has been a challenge getting it off. I am still in the process of ytrying to remove it all with various methods ie sanding and scrapper being non effective.

So my question is can anybody suggest how to remove this type of paint with out damaging the fiberglass and also recommend a good paint to put on fiberglass.

Regards

Craig

When you say 'artex like paint', do you mean the gelcoat? If it is, it's something that should really stay in place and just be smoothed out. Painting onto a fibrous surface generally gives a poor finish so not usually a good idea to take it back that far.

Whatever the coating is, if it's reasonably in tact and holding well to the panel, you'd be better smoothing it off, filling any little nicks and priming/painting over it.

Like Martin says if its Gelcoat. leave it alone
Any chance you can take some pics ?

Thanks guys

I couldnt really leave it because of the state it was in and sanding it as I found out had no impact. Looks like I am going to have to put some form of textured paint on again which I dont really want to do. The thing is it was coming of fine and then as I got near the front it got stubourn and wouldnt budge.


I will send some pics

If it's so thick it has left quite a prominent texture, it's unlikely to be paint. Is it possible someone has badly skimmed it with some filler? It's much harder than paint and quite 'chalky', when sanded.
Also, what abrasives are you using and are you doing it by hand or machine?
It's still likely that you'd be better trying to flatten it rather than removing it completely. Taking it all off is likely to leave a poor surface that will be much harder to repair.