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Re: Holes?
By:Dave Houser
Date: 11/6/2000, 7:40 pm
In Response To: Holes? (Eric Schoettle)

The wires are usually epoxied in on the inside and clipped and sanded smooth on the outside, then just glassed over. If you don't like their look you can remove them from the epoxy useing heat from a soldering iron or epoxing the seams between the wires then removing the wires and finishing the joint.

Gluing the seam in two steps is called tabbing. The trick is to use a small radiused fillet of thickened epoxy for the tabs between the wires. Epoxy will squeeze throught the seam requiring cleanup on the outside. Then after the epoxy hardens and the wires are removed, install a larger radiused fillet of thickened epoxy. The larger radius creates a thicker fillet that will spread over the tabs without the spreader catching. If you mask each pair of holes and the gap between the tabs with a piece of tape the holes will fill and the epoxy will not squeeze through eliminating cleanup on the outside during the second fillet.

Messages In This Thread

Holes?
Eric Schoettle -- 11/5/2000, 4:21 pm
Re: Holes?
Dave Houser -- 11/6/2000, 7:40 pm
Re: Holes?
Larry C. -- 11/5/2000, 7:12 pm
Re: Holes?
Mike Scarborough -- 11/5/2000, 6:49 pm