Date: 3/14/2001, 12:39 pm
I have used Saran Wrap to cover the fillet and by pressing on the fillet with your finger or a piece of flexible tubing you can shape it. Just leave the Saran Wrap in place and remove it after the resin has hardened. It is a problem getting the plastic to form to complex curves such as around the coaming without wrinkles but I have managed to get most of it smooth.
By adding milled glass fibers or wood dust to the epoxy you get a structural fillet (glass fibers are more structural than wood dust), but you cannot spread this type of fillet by the more conventional methods.
A fillet with micro-balloons is great where structural is not needed and is easy to shape by spreading with more conventional methods.
Doug
Messages In This Thread
- How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
Paul Pinder -- 3/13/2001, 4:17 pm- has anyone tried . . .
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/15/2001, 2:29 am- Re: has anyone tried . . .
Pete Rudie -- 3/15/2001, 10:29 am- Re: has anyone tried . . .
Lee Gardner -- 3/15/2001, 9:49 am- Re: has anyone tried . . .
addison -- 3/15/2001, 8:31 am - Re: has anyone tried . . .
- IT DEPENDS ON THE FISH *NM*
steve pollack -- 3/14/2001, 7:44 pm- Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
Doug Kuik -- 3/14/2001, 12:39 pm- Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
grambo -- 3/14/2001, 7:50 am- If you prefer sanding...
Arceneaux -- 3/14/2001, 6:48 pm
- Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
Jerry Siegel -- 3/13/2001, 4:32 pm- Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
John Monfoe -- 3/14/2001, 3:45 am- Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
Liz Leedham -- 3/15/2001, 3:10 pm- Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
Pete Rudie -- 3/16/2001, 1:06 pm- Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
John Monfoe -- 3/16/2001, 5:09 am- What exactly is "denatured alcohol"?
Ted -- 3/15/2001, 6:08 pm - Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
- Re: I second Johns suggestion
Lee -- 3/14/2001, 9:45 am - Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
- Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
- Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
Ross Leidy -- 3/13/2001, 4:26 pm- I agree-- loose the cotton fibers. *NM*
Jerry Siegel -- 3/13/2001, 4:34 pm
- Re: has anyone tried . . .
- has anyone tried . . .