: i am severly diasapointed in my ability to lay fiberglass.

: i suppose it is my first time with epoxy and all my polyester experiances
: were just the same. its pobably not awefull but it definitly doesnt meet
: my standards of finish. i must say the epoxy is better than polyester,
: with the lack of stink, and long work time. i really hate the slow cure
: though.

: i have few more questions.

: how long do you wait before sanding, several days or several weeks?

: can i add another epoxy fill coat hafetr it has cured for several weeks? and
: before varnish.

: and how many sins will the varnish cover? how many coats should there be. 2,
: 3, 20,30?

: thnaks
: chuck

chuck, time till sanding is temperature dependant as well as time. Wear a respirator and if it doesn't ball up it's cured enough. Use a ROS.

I've put epoxy on partially cured epoxy without sanding,,it was fingernail hard but couldn't sand without balling up. After that putting on on subsequent coats occured with light sanding. All this with non blushing epoxy,,once you've got blushing epoxy you HAVE TO REMOVE THE BLUSH,,but that's not hard, warm water works fine.

sanded and unsanded epoxy will look like crap,,varnished epoxy looks great. If you sand only to where it's feels 80% done you'll be better off trying to get 100% and accidentally doing 150% in some small areas.