Rains never came and ended up sunny and 60's all day. Got more than 6 hours on the boat, but don't feel like I accomplished much. Had to remove the bow plate to get to some bolt heads that were holding the rotted supports. Then I moved on to removing all the remaining bolted on hardware. The nuts and bolts were badly rusted, so had to use the grinder with a cutoff wheel for many of them.
With all the carpet gone, I started to attack the mounds of carpet glue. I'd rather remove old waterlogged foam. So far I've tried Goof Off Professional, MEK and Acetone - all with little or no effect. The heavy stuff (and there's a lot of it) is coming out best using a hammer and putty knife as a chisel, but very slow going and tiring. A 120 grit flap disc works ok where the glue is light, but starts to clog up badly where it's heavy. On the tops of the gunnels I noticed it was weakening the tops of the rivets so I stopped using it there. Even on the inside of the hull I don't like the finished look.
I have some 3" brass cups on order for the grinder that will be here later this week to try. Also considering ordering a pack of 320 grit flap discs.
Any suggestions would be very helpful. I feel like my arms are ready to fall off
