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I'm just waiting for Nigel to show up, my buddy from Farrow Systems.
He's going to blast off the bottom of this paint.
This boat hasn't been redone they said in seventeen years. Nigel's gonna show up,
he's got the system that uses the lava rock it's completely safe, environmentally friendly,
the whole nine yards. So uh, I don't knowůlooks like he's got his work cut out for him.
But even the barnacles, everything here will come right down to the smooth fiberglass and ready for repainting.
I designed this for this application. What we're trying to do is clean fiberglass without damaging it.
Anyone can clean fiberglass and take the gel coat off.
What I wanted to do was to clean the fiberglass leaving the gel intact.
So what this application does literally cleans off the anti-foul without damaging the bottom of your vessel.
What we're doing is now adding the media.This media is volcanic rock and we're putting it down into a glass pot
Once this has gone inside, we mix it with water and then we pressurize it with water, not with air.
See this becomes a slurry. Because the secret of the system is that, you know,
equally heat gives you energy and what energy gives you is low pressure.
Actually, out the nozzle this is only 45 to 55 P.S.I.
You've got different kinds obviously, different sizes is that what it is?"
Exactly right. What we need for doing this application, we use orange.
The reason being is because this is the perfect one for that application.
In other words there are four: you have green, blue, orange and red.
Green being the finest and red being the coarsest.
What happens with the size of the media depends upon the surface
so if you've got a finer surface you're gonna use the green or the blue.
Today we're using orange because it speeds it all up.
"Okay, so Nigel. We've got a complete finished boat now and we didn't take off the gel-coat
and within a minute the best guy here is behind us already painting.
How about this though that you've already cleaned offůit's like as smooth as the day it was built.
Thats right. What you gotta look at now is what you can see here and what you can feel.
It's just very gently pitted which it needs to be to make a good key for the paint and the primer.
But there's no damage to the gel-coat and what the gel-coat is there for
is to prevent water from penetrating through to the fiberglass.
Absolutely incredible.
And anything prior to the Farrow System, you have conventional blasting, this would be damaged.
This would have to be resealed and reapplied as a new gel-coat.
I think the other thing that we can mention here is too that this was done by the Farrow System
and nothing else has been done to this apart from a wipe down.
You did the Farrow System and then you just washed it with water.
That's right, exactly.Nigel, sold again brother!