Toe Rail Recaulk I'm at the stage in my chores that I'm digging out all the old caulking (3M 101 at the time - it's no longer available) to recaulk our toerail.
My fiberglass supplier, with a long history in the boatbuilding biz, is recommending Bostic 940FS. Water cleanup and tooling, it looks easy to work with, with a 20 minute skin time.. I'm having some serious questions as to the wisdom of using this material. The 101 I'm taking out in some places is very resistant to removal (others pull our fine with the V-shaped tool I'm using to get under the center and catch the edges in one pass). However, that's merely caulk, and not an adhesive. Knowing 5200's reputation for later removal makes me think twice. I hope I don't, but realistically I expect that at some point in the future, I'll be recaulking the toe rail. Whether I'd be able to get this stuff out without treating it (time, money, ?? impact on the paint/teak) is keeping my attention right now. Has anyone used this stuff (Bostic 940FS) to say how it behaves, particularly in having to remove it? Secondly, if you've had years of experience (how does it hold up?), if not this, what do you use which is currently available (101's not)? Thanks. L8R Skip -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
