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Yes .. Carolina style . With a electronic pop up

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here is how I removed the core material, I just cut around the edge with my 4' dimond blade. and then peeled the skin off

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1.5 oz matt to give the foam a nice bed to bond to

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Cool at first, then well, it got messy

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sucking it in

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okay back at it .. peeled all the core material off the center deck boards and ground down. going to replace with foam core.... added a few more pieces of foam core around the gunnel cap for the rub rail. and prepped and coated the twin bracket..last coat for bracket went on tonight..

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after clean up I wet out a layer of 1.5 oz matt

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I gave them a quick sand down today. and had the bright idea to try the RESIN INFUSION TECNEQUE Well it sounded good. Trying to elimated a couple steps... I did not have the proper equipment . other than a vacuum pump.. so here it is

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Now on to the bracket for the boat. First I used my water sandblaster that I got from northern freight. did a quick blast. ten I used ppg alum. prep.rinsed real good. and then used ppg barrier coat. dry out is the sun . then applied three coats of belzona5811 and made sure I hit all the nook and crannies.

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Thats about it for now. Tues I will be finishing ou the deck boards and building the gas tank beds. Going to try to blast the bilge.