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Like Michael said, use hardener in 1-Shot. It will greatly improve it's durability. Wish it was available when we started lettering boats in '73. With the introduction of Gerber's Signmaker III in '83 we started using 3M High Performance vinyl. We would hand cut the name, cut the hailing port on the Signmaker, and hand paint the outlines and shadows. In '93 we went to all vinyl when we purchased Graphix Advantage.
Just to mention, we kept a log of all the boats we did in '83 using 3M vinyl. In '93 we were called to rename a boat name we originally lettered when the boat was brand new. I checked the records and it was a name we did using the high performance vinyl. The vinyl still looked great after 10 years of sun and salt. Either way you can't go wrong.
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Hardener, when you realize how much thinner or reducer most persons add to their paints and finally figure out that the adding a hardener could make their already non-opaque paint mixture last longer.
Ain't that nice...
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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I have lettered lake/river boats with 1-Shot for 20 years now...no hardener, no thinners, no reducers, no problems. However, they now make it in unleaded...I might be in trouble now! Love....Jill
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Clean the crap out of the boat. I would use BonAmi cake soap followed by 3M Perfect It III compound. Then I'd use 1-Shot with hardener in it.
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Thanks all, the boat is brand spankin' new! Just talked to the new owner today and he said it might be at the sales yard now. He special ordered it a while back, they started manufacturing it a few days ago.
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