: 2. Is there a way to keep all the loose strands of glass threads from
: unraveling off the ends of the tapes? They come off when I place the tape
: and try to smooth it down so I have to dig them out of the wet epoxy with
: a little stick, and transfer more wet epoxy to my shears when I pick them
: up to trim the wet threads off the tape. DOUBLE AAUUGGHH!!

that sounds kinda familiar!!!

One trick that helped me was to put a strip of blue painters tape along the boat above and below where the fiberglass tape needs to go. You are masking off the joint a little narrower than the fiberglass tape width. After wetting out the tape and giving it a day to cure you come back and peel the tape up and cut along the edge with a sharp razor. This gives you a really clean edge and makes it easier to get rid of all of those fiber-fuzzies.

You could also tape the edge of the fiberglass tape if you wanted to reduce the unraveling more.

Ben Staley