Good advice. Sadly, I still work full time! So, I have a limited amount of availability to do this. I would be happy with a good job as opposed to a great job on the teak! So, I’ll try the heat gun and scraping when I get the chance, and report back. I won’t get started on this for at least a month since I am traveling for a few weeks starting late next week. D On Aug 23, 2014, at 9:14 AM, Conbert Benneck <chbenneck@gmail.com> wrote:
On 23-Aug-14 11:03 AM, Daniel Rich wrote:
Daniel,
I haven't tried the heat gun approach to removing old varnish.
When I refinished my teak, I just removed it with my scraper, by now I'm skilled in its use.
If the heat gun loosens it up faster, and in larger quantities, that would be the way to go. My scraper method is labor intensive, but when you have all winter to "play" with your boat, do you really count the hours spent on the project?
When I started stripping the coat of latex house paint from my derelict ComPac 16, MURPHY was looking over my shoulder and grinning. The first square foot of latex paint peeled off very easily. I thought this will be easy.... The rest was welded in place and could only be removed, very laboriously, square inch by square inch. MURPHY won again!
Enjoy your job. When you are finished and it all gleams again you can puff out your chest and say, "that's my refinishing work".