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Air bubbles a pain in the butt.
By:Pete Notman
Date: 7/1/2003, 5:30 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter? (James Nixon)

Yo James

Air bubbles are a curse and seem to appear no matter how carefull you can be. An air bubble is just a space covered with a small fragile skin of cloth over the top. They are right up there with voids in ply.

I would remove any you can see because they can potentially hold water, moisture and even sand and grit and have the potential at some stage or another to collapse into a little crater.

Bubbles aren't too hard to sort out. My best fix was to cut them out with a craft knife (go around the edge and peel off the 'blister'). Then I mix up a goop of epoxy and chopped strands off some left over cloth. Then I splodge it into the hole, let it cure and sand it back. It comes out almost invisible.

Good Luck.

Pete

Messages In This Thread

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
Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
James Nixon -- 6/30/2003, 4:22 pm
Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
Rob Macks -- 7/1/2003, 7:41 am
Air bubbles a pain in the butt.
Pete Notman -- 7/1/2003, 5:30 am
Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
srchr/gerald -- 6/30/2003, 6:08 pm
Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
Paul Probus -- 7/1/2003, 12:45 pm
Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
Patsy -- 6/30/2003, 4:31 pm
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Roy Morford -- 6/30/2003, 5:00 pm
Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
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
Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
Roy Morford -- 6/30/2003, 2:06 pm
Re: Strip: How do you make a strip lighter?
Patsy -- 6/30/2003, 2:14 pm