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    Posted: 28 Aug 05 at 12:38pm
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This is how I did my Cherub mast (from an old RS600) and I cannot say how nasty it was beforehand...it had actually sat in the bottom of the lake for a few months and was totally unrecognisable as carbon!

Scraped the crap off with a paint scraper, rubbed down with wet and dry (carfeully!) and cleaned any residue off with SP Solvent C (and washed down thouroughly with water afterwards).  For varnish, use International Perfection 2 pack, it has about 7 times the UV resistance of a single pack varnish and is very tough.

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I'd be using SP systems Ultravar 2000 two pack for the mast. And they
have a range of thinners that will get rid if what ever you need it to.

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It depends on how old the nail varnish remover is.
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Evostik make a glue remover (little red tins in your local hardware store) which gets sail number glue off, so I would imagine it would do progrip glue too. Doesn't damage gelcoat, but will remove spray paint.

BTW, nail varnish remover is cellulose thinners, not acetone.
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Varnish your mast with a single pack polyurathane varnish (international Goldspar I think is best).

Put it on very thin otherwise it will take ages to go off.

Your mast will look like new.

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Oh thanks for the advice about petrol.  I thought it would be less damaging than acetone.  I would have thought acetone was about the very worse thing you could put on glassfibre.

Acetone = smells like pear drops = nail varnish remover
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3M adhesive remover, best product out there, keep blades well away you will end up scratching your boat and making a mess, petrol, again make a big mess
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nail varnish remover is acetone
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