Removing Toe Rail

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Mon May 30, 2005 8:13 pm

We are removing the wood toe rail from a friend?s boat. It seems they glued this thing on using 5200 or something else which makes an almost permanent bond. We have been considering grinding the wood off as all our other attempts at lifting it have either peeled up the gel coat or resulted in a minimum of progress. Any suggestions?

radicalcy · Post by **radicalcy** » Mon May 30, 2005 9:54 pm

try using a wrapped guitar string as a wire saw. wrap the ends around short pieces of dowel, and use a back and forth motion between the rail and the deck. Or buy a wire saw.
Larry Wilson

Post by **Tim** » Tue May 31, 2005 5:48 am

Or you can just cut off the old rail with a sawz-all, taking care not to cut into the deck, of course.

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:55 am

We tried Larry's idea, only using a piece of wire without much luck. Tim's Sawz-all suggestion might work and would be faster and less expensive then using a grinder. I'll pass this on to my friend Pat and let you know how we come out next weekend.

Thanks for the help,