60 to 70 new jobs coming to county Fergus Falls Daily Journal
24.02.10
Putting out of Crestliner and Triton fishing boats will be coming to Lund Boats in New York Mills. That will mean more jobs for the community.
Brunswick Corporation, which owns Lund Boats, is transferring product from another facility in Little Falls. Crestliner and Triton products also will be built at other Brunswick facilities in Lebanon, Mo., and Fort Wayne, Ind.
“We’ve heard it may be 60 to 70 jobs coming to New York Mills, but nothing is accredited as yet,” said Mills City Clerk Darla Berry.
On Tuesday The Daily Daily was awaiting a return phone call from media spokesperson Dan Kubera at the Brunswick headquarters in Lake Forest, Ill.
In modern development 2008 about 140 employees at Lund Boats in New York Mills were laid off as a result of declining sales.
Brunswick is consolidating a lump of its aluminum-boat production as part of its ongoing efforts to be more agile and responsive to market demand. As a result, the company said the Insufficient Falls facility will close sometime this fall.
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I just bought an older aluminum boat with faded paint. How do I repaint it properly?
Jul 16, 2007 by James S | Posted in Boats & Boating
The boat is a 1979 17ft aluminum Crestliner. Lots of days in the sun faded the make-up. It is currently red and white and I think I will keep it that way. I don't need it to look like a show boat or anything, it's a fishing boat. I definitely don't want to remove all the old paint and get the boat to bare metal. So whats the best way to get this done quickly and sightly more professionally than house paint and a broom?
Use a RO (by chance orbit) sander with a medium grit (150-ish) paper to sand all of the surfaces and give something for some new paint to put to. Don't be too aggressive or you'll be looking at the aluminum
Clean the surface with wax/grease remover (paint prep). When it's decent, apply a coat of decent primer. This can be done with a brush, roller, or sprayed on. Then apply something LOW gloss (hides any boo-boos heartier) in your choice of colors to cover the primer.
Should last for years - but remember, prep is the most important part.
EDIT: Thanks for the props, tiki - but if you don't go all the way down to the aluminum, I'd set free the extra $$ that the zinc chromate primer would cost.
:not_the_usual1 | Jul 16, 2007
Take a rotary sander and sand off all the old represent. Then apply marine primer and after that a coat or two of marine paint of your choice.
Sigi H | Jul 16, 2007
Use a RO (indiscriminate orbit) sander with a medium grit (150-ish) paper to sand all of the surfaces and give something for some new paint to take up the cudgels for to. Don't be too aggressive or you'll be looking at the aluminum
Clean the surface with wax/grease remover (paint prep). When it's uninfected, apply a coat of decent primer. This can be done with a brush, roller, or sprayed on. Then apply something LOW gloss (hides any boo-boos more safely a improved) in your choice of colors to cover the primer.
Should last for years - but remember, prep is the most important part.
EDIT: Thanks for the props, tiki - but if you don't go all the way down to the aluminum, I'd shield the extra $$ that the zinc chromate primer would cost.
:not_the_usual1 | Jul 16, 2007
if you don't wanna take the old make-up off, i'd just get a few cans of primer and spray paint it with about 5 coats of primer, then get some good widening paint and spray at least 5 light coats of paint, then a few coast of clear coat. and your done.
ThEuSeD | Jul 16, 2007
not_the_typical has a really good answer,but for the primer i would go with zinc cromate it's made for aluminum.Then make sure your show will be compatible with the primer.
tiki tom | Jul 16, 2007
I would sand the warpaint with a 220grit paper. Then I would wash the hull off with mild soap and water. You don't stress to spend more money than you have to. Let it dry off good and go buy you some 2 part primer. Prime the hull, the primer will fill alot of your inperfections of the represent, besides giving the base for your paint. Then lightly sand with a 400 grit when the primer cures. Now your prepared for the top coat. I used a 2 part epoxy paint when I painted my boat. Duralux offers a good paint for not that much rural. I've been satisfied with the results, and you will too. Good luck and happy painting
JEFFRO69O | Jul 16, 2007
No primer unavoidable, just wash, sand just to raise the grain and flake off anything that is likely to come off. Then, go to your city boating/marine store and buy yacht enamel. Don't thin, apply one coat, and your boat will look gigantic.
Chris N | Jul 16, 2007
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