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When you get all that scraping finished I've got a 74 Starcraft you can do also. I just don't want you to get rusty from lack of practice.
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I had really good luck getting almost all of the pinstriping off of the barge using the heat gun (on the decal side). Like you, I ended up with a HUGE ball of old decals.
I also noted (as you did) that the different colors came off with a different level of difficulty. I don't know if they were initially made of a slightly different material, or if the sun and UV attacked the different colors in different ways.
But what didn't come off with the heat gun... came off with the razor. I 'rounded' the ends of the blade (with 400 grit wet/dry) to make sure they didn't gouge into the old paint. Worked well.
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Good idea, Scottbee, with rounding the edges of the razor. I think some of the stripes were either reflective or metallic.
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We got a little chunk done yesterday. Hubby inside the boat with a blow dryer and me outside with a razor blade and my fingernails. (the fingernails did better than the razor blade.) The striping is cracked and broken, so if we got a 1 foot strip without it breaking we thought we were doing awesome.
One of the hardest parts was a large decal that was broken up. Same decal on the other side. Together they took probably 2.5 hours to get both removed. 
So here is our plan. We are going to put temporary lettering on the boat as soon as we get all the striping removed, so we can go ahead and enjoy this summer.
This fall we will either get the aluminum repainted or hubby wants to know about using the paneling offered on this site pontoon stuff paneling and just putting this over the old paneling, but not covering the fencing.
He said while we have the fencing off we can redeck. WOO HOO! I finally wore him down about redecking. 
Has anyone repainted their aluminum paneling?
Has anyone used the paneling offered by pontoon stuff just to cover the old paneling leaving the old paneling in place and not covering the fencing? (I really like the lines of the fencing.)
Thanks to all for your help.
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Think Brian (briankinley2004) did and keep thinking somebody else did recently. Yes, I am in the process now of covering my old aluminum siding and not covering the fence like I did originally. Its actually turning out to be easier. Making it about 1/2in bigger than the inside around the fencing, bow it a little and it slips right into place. I then on each end of the panel put a small piece of two way tape into place and pop the panel back into place. Thinking of using something else, that'll allow me to apply adhesive on the aluminum panel, but lets me adjust the vinyl fence paneling into place before it sticks/drys. Two sided tape isn't very forgiving. Waiting till I get done before I do pics.
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I am moving this to my topic 1981 JC Pontoon. Thanks.
Edited by jessepoling on 04/15/2009 at 9:51pm
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I'm in the process of removing all of the old, faded, cracked decals on mine. The old dealer decals came off lickety-split, but the manufacturer's decals are being a real pain! Mine has textured aluminum panels; aside from a couple minor dents (and a puncture wound  ), they're in great shape. I don't really want to replace them because I like how the texture gives some slight dimension, so I'm going to attempt to paint them and install new stripes. Because of the wavey texture, I'd rather not use a metal blade, so I'm going to give that packing tape method a shot! Here's hoping it works! 
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The packing tape really works well to keep all those little broken pieces together. I used my thumpnail to push the stripes and keep them stuck to the tape. We hae the textured finish also. We found on the first fence that we could not get the gule off. I used about 5 or 6 different products. There is some stuff you can get that is used on aicraft but it is banned in CA so I can't get it. We decided to sand the glue of with an orbital type sander. Yes it destroyed the texture but we are putting the vinyl decal type material over it so the texture is covered anyway. If I had to do it again and the money, I would buy the fence covering offered by Pontoon Stuff and cover everything and not worry about the decaling.
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I recently finished removing all of the 20 year old decals on my '88 bass buggy and painting it. I tried all of the tricks on here to remove the decals and a few
others. I just thought I'd post what ended up working for me. First, a painter at work gave me a can of 3M Woodgrain remover ($20 a can). He uses this to remove the decals on our vans, but the trick to using this is after you spray it on the decal, immediately cover that section with aluminum foil. After about 5 minutes, remove the aluminum foil and the decals just 'fell' off. If you skip the
aluminum foil part, it does not work nearly as well, as the product dries before it completely loosens the decal, trust me.. This method removed the decal, but left the adhesive behind. The other method I used is the eraser wheel. I bought about 4 of these 4' diameter wheels (about $10 each at the local auto paint store, not autozone or pepboys) They have them online at Amazon and Choice Tool also. These worked great, and even took the adhesive off at the same time. I used them in my corded drill, ran my cordless down too fast. The only issue I had is getting into the corners and close to the rail, so I combined both of the methods here and had all the decals and adhesive off in half the time. Just thought I post this info in case someone is planning a winter rebuild.
Edited by Wildcat Dude on 11/08/2009 at 9:59pm
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added the post by bpallgeier as it has good useful info.
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