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Re: fiberlassing inside of hull
By:Dean Trexel
Date: 8/30/1999, 9:34 pm
In Response To: fiberlassing inside of hull (Tom Davies)

If the air bubbles are relatively small, poke or drill a hole through the cloth and fill them with epoxy. A small syringe works well; my Pygmy kit came with 2 of them, but I don't know where to find them at a store. If your epoxy is still green from the glassing job, you may even be able to squeeze the bubbles down a bit so there's less of a lump.

The whitish areas I am guessing are foamy epoxy. I have this only in the stem and stern of my kayak where I have a big enough epoxy fillet that any loss of strength of is inconsequential. Strength-wise you're probably O.K. here as long as you can't depress it with your finger. Another possibility is that the whitish spots are where hot-melt glue used to be if you used it to tack your forms to the panels. The hot-melt seals the surface of the wood and doesn't allow the epoxy to penetrate.

Dean

> I put in a layer of fiberglass on the inside of the hull and encountered
> some difficulty getting the glass to lay flat to the wood. I have some
> areas of air bubbles on seams, some air bubbles not on seams and some
> lumps that look whitish. I am frustrated at this point. Does anyone have
> any advice on how to fix these problems. How much of a problem do I have?
> Thanks

Messages In This Thread

fiberlassing inside of hull
Tom Davies -- 8/30/1999, 9:21 pm
Re: fiberlassing inside of hull
Ed Valley -- 8/31/1999, 12:27 pm
glassing inside of hull -- take two
Ed Valley -- 8/31/1999, 12:40 pm
Re: fiberlassing inside of hull
Dean Trexel -- 8/30/1999, 9:34 pm
Re: glue syringes
Dave Houser -- 8/31/1999, 2:41 am
Re: glue syringes
Don Beale -- 8/31/1999, 11:20 am