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Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
By:Chip Sandresky
Date: 6/30/2003, 5:05 pm

: I can't imagine using that technique on a big area. Sounds terribly risky.

To do an entire hull the glass would have to be on a roll and the roll would have to be mounted to a dispenser-type holder...

I got to the point where squeegeeing off gunk was way more painful that dragging dry fabric over wet epoxy. For me there's a limit to what you can do with a squeegee but everyone is different. I have gotten starved glass before but it was from over-squeegeeing. This method works pretty well. Like I said, the 12'x6" deck ridge/coaming is the largest area I've tried it on so far but the payoff is great enough so I will eventually do a hull that way.

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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