Date: 11/7/2003, 2:48 pm
: When I recieved my epoxy from Raka they included an instruction
: pamphlet on how to epoxy fiberglass the wood.
: It states that doing a precoat of epoxy on the wood then
: laying down the cloth with more resin is the correct procedure.
: Can I get comments on this??
: Julie
I have always precoated one night (falling air temps), scraped the hard fuzz off with a cabinet scraper the next day and glassed that night both on a stripper and on S&Gs. I had good result and always thought it was "THE" way to epoxy until I made a test panel on plywood. I precoated half the panel then the next day glassed the whole panel. I could not tell the difference from one side to the other. Both sides of the panel failed the same (visually) when bent to failure. I did not do weight tests or quantitative structural tests. I concluded, if you do full saturation of the surface with epoxy, precoating is a waste of time (at least on plywood).
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