Thought you guys might like to see a few before and after pics of my 28ss during restoration. I stripped the transom and engine compartnment for awlgrip. had the hynautic K-5's plated in bright nickel, powdercoated the gimbals and installed all new hardware. moved the steering lines etc.

should have the engines back soon.. cant wait

after shots

Looks good man, i looked for a couple of years for a mag or a cig 28...............Ended up with a mag ......Keep the pics coming

Pretty sweet.....are you leaving the Martini stripes?.....

looks good, I am just finishing up my restoration on a 77 28ss.It took about a year and a half. I just bought a 1975 20 cigarette to begin restoring starting next month.

how did you get your K -5s to shine? is that powder coat as well? looks real nice bright nickel how do you do it?

Toasty,

The K-5's are brass plated with bright nickel - I stripped them apart - tumbled them and then sent them to Franklin plating in North Phily. they were copper plated - polished and then Nickel plated. They look brand new.

Chris

did you have to take them all apart?
and re seal them? they look really trick, how do you think it will show in salt water?
christian

yes they have to come comletely apart - they are very simple.

I am expecting them to hold up very well since they lasted 30? yrs with the nickle plating that was on them previously.

Chris

Yes, I am going to keep the martini color scheme. - I am only going to make a few cosmetic changes to the boat and plan on keeping the origional look .

I am doing all of the mechanicals to the boat this season and over the winter plan on the cosmetics.

plans include -

3 man bolster - has to go - I hate it
fairing to replace where windshield was - none on the boat now
topside paint
old style script decals
etc.

Chris