Any of you have any experience with doing it on your own?

I've been thinking about purchasing one of those controlled heat guns
and doing my own boat (soon to be boats).

I wonder if it would be worth it - over time that is.

NOTE TO JAMESGANG - please feel free to ignore this post as it's
boating related. I'll post something unrelated to boats later in the
day so you can get off ranting about off-topic threads.

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
Any of you have any experience with doing it on your own?

I've been thinking about purchasing one of those controlled heat guns
and doing my own boat (soon to be boats).

I wonder if it would be worth it - over time that is.

NOTE TO JAMESGANG - please feel free to ignore this post as it's
boating related. I'll post something unrelated to boats later in the
day so you can get off ranting about off-topic threads.


Tom, I'm not sure it is worth the time or money to do it on your own.

I have an "itinerant" shrink wrap guy do my 21' Parker. He spends about
an hour to an hour and a half rigging the support tapes so the wrap
hangs properly, and then applies the wrap from huge rolls, using a
propane heat gun to shrink it.

I watched him do it the first year. There's quite a bit of "learned"
skill involved, which I am sure you can learn. But...

It cost me $7.50 a foot to have it done. I was charged for a 22' boat
because of the outboard lower unit extension.

That's pretty cheap - $165 - for a top-notch job done by a journeyman.

Your Ranger is about the same size.

I'd pay to have it done right, rather than investing in the plastic, the
ties, the tape, and the heat gun.

On Dec 15, 10:05*am, Boater wrote:
Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:

Any of you have any experience with doing it on your own?

I've been thinking about purchasing one of those controlled heat guns
and doing my own boat *(soon to be boats).

I wonder if it would be worth it - over time that is.

NOTE TO JAMESGANG - please feel free to ignore this post as it's
boating related. *I'll post something unrelated to boats later in the
day so you can get off ranting about off-topic threads.

Tom, I'm not sure it is worth the time or money to do it on your own.

I have an "itinerant" shrink wrap guy do my 21' Parker. He spends about
an hour to an hour and a half rigging the support tapes so the wrap
hangs properly, and then applies the wrap from huge rolls, using a
propane heat gun to shrink it.

I watched him do it the first year. There's quite a bit of "learned"
skill involved, which I am sure you can learn. But...

It cost me $7.50 a foot to have it done. I was charged for a 22' boat
because of the outboard lower unit extension.

That's pretty cheap - $165 - for a top-notch job done by a journeyman.

Your Ranger is about the same size.

I'd pay to have it done right, rather than investing in the plastic, the
ties, the tape, and the heat gun.

What union does he belong to?

On Dec 15, 10:21*am, wrote:
On Dec 15, 10:05*am, Boater wrote:





Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:

Any of you have any experience with doing it on your own?

I've been thinking about purchasing one of those controlled heat guns
and doing my own boat *(soon to be boats).

I wonder if it would be worth it - over time that is.

NOTE TO JAMESGANG - please feel free to ignore this post as it's
boating related. *I'll post something unrelated to boats later in the
day so you can get off ranting about off-topic threads.

Tom, I'm not sure it is worth the time or money to do it on your own.

I have an "itinerant" shrink wrap guy do my 21' Parker. He spends about
an hour to an hour and a half rigging the support tapes so the wrap
hangs properly, and then applies the wrap from huge rolls, using a
propane heat gun to shrink it.

I watched him do it the first year. There's quite a bit of "learned"
skill involved, which I am sure you can learn. But...

It cost me $7.50 a foot to have it done. I was charged for a 22' boat
because of the outboard lower unit extension.

That's pretty cheap - $165 - for a top-notch job done by a journeyman.

Your Ranger is about the same size.

I'd pay to have it done right, rather than investing in the plastic, the
ties, the tape, and the heat gun.

What union does he belong to?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

**** YOU, asswipe.

On Dec 15, 2:55*pm, wrote:
On Dec 15, 10:21*am, wrote:





On Dec 15, 10:05*am, Boater wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:

Any of you have any experience with doing it on your own?

I've been thinking about purchasing one of those controlled heat guns
and doing my own boat *(soon to be boats).

I wonder if it would be worth it - over time that is.

NOTE TO JAMESGANG - please feel free to ignore this post as it's
boating related. *I'll post something unrelated to boats later in the
day so you can get off ranting about off-topic threads.

Tom, I'm not sure it is worth the time or money to do it on your own.

I have an "itinerant" shrink wrap guy do my 21' Parker. He spends about
an hour to an hour and a half rigging the support tapes so the wrap
hangs properly, and then applies the wrap from huge rolls, using a
propane heat gun to shrink it.

I watched him do it the first year. There's quite a bit of "learned"
skill involved, which I am sure you can learn. But...

It cost me $7.50 a foot to have it done. I was charged for a 22' boat
because of the outboard lower unit extension.

That's pretty cheap - $165 - for a top-notch job done by a journeyman..

Your Ranger is about the same size.

I'd pay to have it done right, rather than investing in the plastic, the
ties, the tape, and the heat gun.

What union does he belong to?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

**** YOU, asswipe.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Nothing but vulgarities. You're infatuation for me is kind of weird
though.

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:05:39 -0500, Boater
wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
Any of you have any experience with doing it on your own?

I've been thinking about purchasing one of those controlled heat guns
and doing my own boat (soon to be boats).

I wonder if it would be worth it - over time that is.

NOTE TO JAMESGANG - please feel free to ignore this post as it's
boating related. I'll post something unrelated to boats later in the
day so you can get off ranting about off-topic threads.


Tom, I'm not sure it is worth the time or money to do it on your own.

I have an "itinerant" shrink wrap guy do my 21' Parker. He spends about
an hour to an hour and a half rigging the support tapes so the wrap
hangs properly, and then applies the wrap from huge rolls, using a
propane heat gun to shrink it.

I watched him do it the first year. There's quite a bit of "learned"
skill involved, which I am sure you can learn. But...

It cost me $7.50 a foot to have it done. I was charged for a 22' boat
because of the outboard lower unit extension.

That's pretty cheap - $165 - for a top-notch job done by a journeyman.

Your Ranger is about the same size.

I'd pay to have it done right, rather than investing in the plastic, the
ties, the tape, and the heat gun.

Around here, it's $10 to $11/ft at the shop - if you get a mobile guy,
it's a little higher - $13 to $15/ft. I heard it went up this year to
around $15/ft at shops and $17/ft mobile.

Either way, a $600 investment in a gun, another $5/600 for wrap/tape
and string - that's a grand or so roughly in terms of investment.
Propane is cheap enough.

So at 20 feet times - say $15/ft average thats $300/yr to have have it
done. Over three years, you should be able to at least make your
money back on the original investment and everything past that is at
whatever the cost of the wrap is.

Then again, what with my back problems, it might not be such a good
idea.

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:05:39 -0500, Boater
wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
Any of you have any experience with doing it on your own?

I've been thinking about purchasing one of those controlled heat guns
and doing my own boat (soon to be boats).

I wonder if it would be worth it - over time that is.

NOTE TO JAMESGANG - please feel free to ignore this post as it's
boating related. I'll post something unrelated to boats later in the
day so you can get off ranting about off-topic threads.

Tom, I'm not sure it is worth the time or money to do it on your own.

I have an "itinerant" shrink wrap guy do my 21' Parker. He spends about
an hour to an hour and a half rigging the support tapes so the wrap
hangs properly, and then applies the wrap from huge rolls, using a
propane heat gun to shrink it.

I watched him do it the first year. There's quite a bit of "learned"
skill involved, which I am sure you can learn. But...

It cost me $7.50 a foot to have it done. I was charged for a 22' boat
because of the outboard lower unit extension.

That's pretty cheap - $165 - for a top-notch job done by a journeyman.

Your Ranger is about the same size.

I'd pay to have it done right, rather than investing in the plastic, the
ties, the tape, and the heat gun.

Around here, it's $10 to $11/ft at the shop - if you get a mobile guy,
it's a little higher - $13 to $15/ft. I heard it went up this year to
around $15/ft at shops and $17/ft mobile.

Either way, a $600 investment in a gun, another $5/600 for wrap/tape
and string - that's a grand or so roughly in terms of investment.
Propane is cheap enough.

So at 20 feet times - say $15/ft average thats $300/yr to have have it
done. Over three years, you should be able to at least make your
money back on the original investment and everything past that is at
whatever the cost of the wrap is.

Then again, what with my back problems, it might not be such a good
idea.



Being the imaginary lover of so many Hollywood starlets, I just don't
have the energy.

"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
message ...
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:05:39 -0500, Boater
wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
Any of you have any experience with doing it on your own?

I've been thinking about purchasing one of those controlled heat guns
and doing my own boat (soon to be boats).

I wonder if it would be worth it - over time that is.

NOTE TO JAMESGANG - please feel free to ignore this post as it's
boating related. I'll post something unrelated to boats later in the
day so you can get off ranting about off-topic threads.


Tom, I'm not sure it is worth the time or money to do it on your own.

I have an "itinerant" shrink wrap guy do my 21' Parker. He spends about
an hour to an hour and a half rigging the support tapes so the wrap
hangs properly, and then applies the wrap from huge rolls, using a
propane heat gun to shrink it.

I watched him do it the first year. There's quite a bit of "learned"
skill involved, which I am sure you can learn. But...

It cost me $7.50 a foot to have it done. I was charged for a 22' boat
because of the outboard lower unit extension.

That's pretty cheap - $165 - for a top-notch job done by a journeyman.

Your Ranger is about the same size.

I'd pay to have it done right, rather than investing in the plastic, the
ties, the tape, and the heat gun.

Around here, it's $10 to $11/ft at the shop - if you get a mobile guy,
it's a little higher - $13 to $15/ft. I heard it went up this year to
around $15/ft at shops and $17/ft mobile.

Either way, a $600 investment in a gun, another $5/600 for wrap/tape
and string - that's a grand or so roughly in terms of investment.
Propane is cheap enough.

So at 20 feet times - say $15/ft average thats $300/yr to have have it
done. Over three years, you should be able to at least make your
money back on the original investment and everything past that is at
whatever the cost of the wrap is.

Then again, what with my back problems, it might not be such a good
idea.

Not to mention... if your buddies see you doing it, you may end up doing
freebie work on their boats.

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:42:27 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:


"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
message ...
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:05:39 -0500, Boater
wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
Any of you have any experience with doing it on your own?

I've been thinking about purchasing one of those controlled heat guns
and doing my own boat (soon to be boats).

I wonder if it would be worth it - over time that is.

NOTE TO JAMESGANG - please feel free to ignore this post as it's
boating related. I'll post something unrelated to boats later in the
day so you can get off ranting about off-topic threads.


Tom, I'm not sure it is worth the time or money to do it on your own.

I have an "itinerant" shrink wrap guy do my 21' Parker. He spends about
an hour to an hour and a half rigging the support tapes so the wrap
hangs properly, and then applies the wrap from huge rolls, using a
propane heat gun to shrink it.

I watched him do it the first year. There's quite a bit of "learned"
skill involved, which I am sure you can learn. But...

It cost me $7.50 a foot to have it done. I was charged for a 22' boat
because of the outboard lower unit extension.

That's pretty cheap - $165 - for a top-notch job done by a journeyman.

Your Ranger is about the same size.

I'd pay to have it done right, rather than investing in the plastic, the
ties, the tape, and the heat gun.

Around here, it's $10 to $11/ft at the shop - if you get a mobile guy,
it's a little higher - $13 to $15/ft. I heard it went up this year to
around $15/ft at shops and $17/ft mobile.

Either way, a $600 investment in a gun, another $5/600 for wrap/tape
and string - that's a grand or so roughly in terms of investment.
Propane is cheap enough.

So at 20 feet times - say $15/ft average thats $300/yr to have have it
done. Over three years, you should be able to at least make your
money back on the original investment and everything past that is at
whatever the cost of the wrap is.

Then again, what with my back problems, it might not be such a good
idea.

Not to mention... if your buddies see you doing it, you may end up doing
freebie work on their boats.

Hey - as long as they pay for the materials, who cares? I'm not in it
to make money.

Knowing little aboutt he process. I wsould thinkt hat a made-to-fit
cover would be better. seeing that the shrink wrap would be tight
enought to promote mold (my opinion) or mildew I think I'd go with a
more loose-fitting cover myself. Besides, the cover can be reused time
and time again, where the wrap is peeled off in the spring then is
disposed of.

So is shrink wrap really that good of investment.

Of course I'm one to talk. I don't have a cover on my boats, but then
again, I store them in my warehouse.