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1980 Viper Rebirth

Restoring your Hydrostream or just giving it a small makeover? What better place than to show off your project. Big or small.
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Thats looking really good! :up:
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Great thread. What is the status of this build? Just about to pick up my first hydrostream resto project. This thread was inspiring

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BostonViper wrote: Feb 10, 2020 1:33 am Great thread. What is the status of this build? Just about to pick up my first hydrostream resto project. This thread was inspiring

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The status remains the same. There's nothing i can do to the hull in the winter as its outside in an unheated portable shelter.

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Sunday February 16th, 2020:

Got a couple degrees above freezing today, so I figured I'd plow the snow around my deck and do some gelcoat stripping.

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@alaskastreamin, Ron, i dunno how you did your deck in a single day. I needed to rest my arms every 10 minutes. They're like Jello now.
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Great progress! What do you plan to finish it with? Why take all the gel off?
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tnelson77 wrote: Feb 16, 2020 10:32 pm Great progress! What do you plan to finish it with? Why take all the gel off?
Half the clearcoat was gone, and the remaining was badly UV damaged. I hated the colour anyways.
Hopefully I'll be spraying new gel. I wasn't sure about the science of spraying gelcoat over older metalflake, so I just figured i'll just strip it all off and spray the bare surface. Orbital sanding with 24-grit pads. Will be a good rough surface for gel to bond to.
This is the new 2020 Toyota Tundra in Voodoo Blue. I'd like to get as close to this as possible.

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I like that blue! Make sure to put lots of flake in it. :D
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Wednesday March 25th, 2020:

Weather still hasn't warmed up enough for glass work, so sanding the deck continues.
Most sanding done with a variable speed 7" orbital sander running around 3000rpm using 24grit pads. I would do small manageable sections at a time, first sanding the clearcoat (what was left of it), then the flake down to the black tooling gelcoat, then finally the black gelcoat down to the glass.

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You can see below where I went a little too deep with the sanding. I will be going over the entire deck again using a 4" DA sander using 60/80grit pads to smooth out the grooves where needed, rounding edges, etc.
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For the windshield frame notches, I needed to use my triangle rasp on my oscillating tool.
These chopper-gun layups leave lots of air bubbles.
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Until next time...
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Make any progress on this over summer?
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tnelson77 wrote: Sep 26, 2020 10:30 pm Make any progress on this over summer?
I had a kid, so no. :|
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