Sam

I'm not in the least involbved in clean-up of the physical kind but looking at everything that went wrong with this, do a little consulting work for my former team.

Those eucs...a something nasty when they burn. We had a rental overlooking the lagoon off Santa Helena in Solana Beach and first thing I did years back was cut the trees down. As firewood they don't burn long but are they ever hot!

Keep me up on your findings as I will, too. I don't get it...the Raka wets-out fast, and conditions for you were ideal. Something is wrong somewhere. I've and many others have used s-glasses for years, e-glass is just not that common for layered composites, and no one I've talked with has ever had a problem of this kind. I just don't have an answer yet.

: Good luck with the clean up. My mom is just inland from Del Mar and the
: stands of eucalyptus about 3/4 of mile up-Santa Anna-wind have her real
: nervous… She had the shake roof torn off the house a few years ago, but
: her neighbor still has one.

: Looking at the image it may be hard to convince yourself, but there were no
: wet out problems with the S glass. I used Raka epoxy with their slow
: hardener, following a seal coat. Conditions were perfect, about 75 F, and
: the E glass panels were wet out in the same session. I mixed a different
: batch of epoxy for each set of 4 panels (4 panels S, 4 panels E), so each
: set saw the same changes in resin viscosity with time. The S glass yarns
: are perfectly clear, but the surrounding epoxy rich regions between yarns
: (which are also perfectly clear) are evident - hence the difference in
: appearance. I think it would be interesting to look at the two panels with
: polarized lenses. I checked the BGF web site, but only found finish
: information for the 6522, so I sent JR Sweet an email asking if they knew
: more about the finish on the 1522. If there is a difference in finish,
: perhaps that is the explanation - but I don't expect it is. It seems
: resonable to me that this type of appearance is why some people have
: stated that S glass does not wet out "clear". It is clear, but
: it (often?) shows this "ghosting".

: Sam