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02-29-2008, 03:39 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: mcminnville area
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How do you......................
remove pitch from the bottom of a boat?,
The guy who had this boat before me was going down the river when they got hung up on a rock. Instead of pushing off with the oars they started rocking the boat on top of this rock. to their suprise they popped a hole into the bottom of the boat and was taking on water. They pulled over to the bank turned the boat over and went and found a bunch of pitch from nearby trees and covered the bottom of the boat with it to get them down the rest of the river.
Now that I own the boat, I am in the process of taking off the fiberglass that is on the bottom of the boat and the pitch is in the way. it just gums up my belt sander something fierce. Any ideas?
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02-29-2008, 03:42 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gervais, Or
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Re: How do you......................
I'm guessing some type of petroleum based solvent would do the trick.
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02-29-2008, 03:44 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: marysville,wa
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Re: How do you......................
i dont know if this will work on fiberglass but, i use butter to remove pitch from my skin. just get a glob of margarine or butter and rub it on my hands and the pitch comes off. might work on a boat????
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02-29-2008, 03:46 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Corvallis
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Re: How do you......................
turpentine is a pine based solvent, that should work but I can't tell you what it might do to the fiberglass or resin under and around the sap.
Paul
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02-29-2008, 03:47 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Boring, OR
Posts: 14,610
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Re: How do you......................
Acetone.
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02-29-2008, 03:56 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hillsboro
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Re: How do you......................
Olive oil took it out of my hair and it smelled good in the process, Really worked good.
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02-29-2008, 04:00 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: mcminnville area
Posts: 7,946
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Re: How do you......................
Thanks guys. The most pitch is around the chines and where the hole in the bottom is, well its not really a hole, it was just kindof a depression in the bottom which started to leak.
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02-29-2008, 04:04 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Longview,WA
Posts: 1,592
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Re: How do you......................
Don't know about taking it off a boat,but we have been using kerosene to clean pitch out of pulp chests at work.
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02-29-2008, 05:12 PM
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Cutthroat
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 50
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Re: How do you......................
WD-40 works great for roofing and road tar.
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02-29-2008, 05:40 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: vancouver wa
Posts: 1,525
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Re: How do you......................
as a kid after a day of climbing fir trees all day my mom would get out the ol jar of peanut butter and slap a big glob on my hands and elbows and tell me rub away which really works and to this day it still works on my 6 year old just don't lick your boat when your done leaves a bad taste in your mouth believe me!!!!!!!!
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02-29-2008, 05:54 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: mcminnville area
Posts: 7,946
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Re: How do you......................
so what it sounds like is something oily or with oil in it should do the trick.
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02-29-2008, 08:56 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: On the Deschutes
Posts: 2,466
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Re: How do you......................
wd40. Take a scraper and scrape all you can off and then spray and wipe with wd40.
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02-29-2008, 09:21 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Out in the back forty
Posts: 6,167
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Re: How do you......................
turpentine, gasoline, acetone would be what I would try, along with mild heat.
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02-29-2008, 11:40 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: WA.
Posts: 2,905
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Re: How do you......................
use acetone to clean off the dust and contaminents before you add new resin and cloth etc.
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03-01-2008, 04:59 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Medford,Oregon
Posts: 1,308
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Re: How do you......................
WD 40 works great.
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