Depending on the type of bedding compound used, you might find a heat
gun useful.

Take it off very carefully. Don't damage a single piece. Tie it up
in neat bundles. I'll provide the shipping address when you get it
done.

TIP: If you will screw a regular wood screw into each bung it will
lift it out of the bung hole as the screw you insert makes contact
with the screw holding the teak to the deck. This way I'll get nice
clean bung holes when you ship it to me.

Thanks.

Joe

So what did you do with the screw holes as you removed the deck? Something
temporary until the area was ready to refinish? I'm going to face this
someday... yeech.

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Keith
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About $2K minimum, a lot of dirty work, and at least 90 days for the
typical 40 ft boat.

Have fun.

Lew

I remove a small section of wood at a time using the air chisel. Maybe 3' x
4'.
The removed the screws, then scraped any remaining juck using a 4" wall
scraper.
Then injected the holes with WEST system to keep the WX out. WEST turned
out to be a poor choice because it is not compatable with polyester fillers
and
primer. So I have to use an epoxy filler and primer. Much harder to sand but
otherwise work great.

Doug

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So what did you do with the screw holes as you removed the deck? Something
temporary until the area was ready to refinish? I'm going to face this
someday... yeech.

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Keith
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"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the
morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."--Dean Martin
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About $2K minimum, a lot of dirty work, and at least 90 days for the
typical 40 ft boat.

Have fun.

Lew

Doug Dotson wrote:


The wood was bedded with polysulfide. Taking it up with the air chisel
resulted
is an impressive pile of toothpicks.

An unfortunate thing you point out, polysulfide. It has been pointed
out that the polysulfide sealents all these boats were made with is good
for 20 years. Maybe 25.

My boat, 1984, 21 years ago.

Jim wrote:

An unfortunate thing you point out, polysulfide. It has been pointed
out that the polysulfide sealents all these boats were made with is good
for 20 years. Maybe 25.

That should start to give you some idea where my $2K estimate came from.

Lew

My boat is a 1981 so it seems to be true. However, the polysulfide wasn't
failing by any stretch. If it had then I wouldn't have needed the air
chisel.

Doug

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Doug Dotson wrote:


The wood was bedded with polysulfide. Taking it up with the air chisel
resulted
is an impressive pile of toothpicks.

An unfortunate thing you point out, polysulfide. It has been pointed out
that the polysulfide sealents all these boats were made with is good for
20 years. Maybe 25.

My boat, 1984, 21 years ago.