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Re: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets?
By:Doug Kuik
Date: 3/14/2001, 12:39 pm
In Response To: How Do I Get Smooth Fillets? (Paul Pinder)

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
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: I second Johns suggestion
Lee -- 3/14/2001, 9:45 am
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