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Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
By:Chip Sandresky
Date: 6/30/2003, 4:13 pm

Hi Patsy. Everyone has mentioned squeegeeing so far and I would agree. I have been experimenting with rolling-on a coat of epoxy and then laying the fiberglass fabric into the wet epoxy. The fabric tends to suck down onto the surface as it absorbs the underlying epoxy. I have to go back and touch up the dry spots with a roller but the epoxy does not pool under the fabric at all. I layed up the big coaming rim of my double-paddle canoe that way last night. I checked on it this morning and it looks perfect, no shiny pools, no dry spots just the uniform matte pattern of the fabric. I didn't have to use a squeegee. I can see how it might be a PITA on a really big area but I'm going to try to do all my layups this way from now on. I hope this helps. See you in Pt. Townsend :)

- Chip

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Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
Patsy -- 6/30/2003, 1:30 pm
Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 7/1/2003, 11:59 pm
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James Nixon -- 6/30/2003, 4:22 pm
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Rob Macks -- 7/1/2003, 7:41 am
Air bubbles a pain in the butt.
Pete Notman -- 7/1/2003, 5:30 am
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srchr/gerald -- 6/30/2003, 6:08 pm
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Paul Probus -- 7/1/2003, 12:45 pm
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Patsy -- 6/30/2003, 4:31 pm
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Roy Morford -- 6/30/2003, 5:00 pm
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Chip Sandresky -- 6/30/2003, 4:13 pm
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Patsy -- 6/30/2003, 4:48 pm
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Chip Sandresky -- 6/30/2003, 5:05 pm
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bob Kelim -- 6/30/2003, 2:15 pm
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Rehd -- 6/30/2003, 3:09 pm
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Roy Morford -- 6/30/2003, 2:06 pm
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Patsy -- 6/30/2003, 2:14 pm