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Re: Epoxy: Working with Marine Grade Epoxy
By:grant
Date: 12/24/2003, 2:26 am

Hey everyone, Paul G.,ChrisO, srchr/gerald,Chip Sandresky

Thanks for taking the time to respond, there are some great tip's there,
#1. I knew fish Eye's were from a dirty surface, But never thought about using a de-greacer, the surface looked clean "Duh" and FYI when I put the resin on all the previous resin was sanded off.
#2. Ill make sure all the plastic buckes are de greaced as well (good tip)
#3 Ill look at other Epoxy's when im finished with this project,
#4 Ill get a good Spray on Varnish (if you have a brand name that you can sugest that would be great)
#5 The Mirrors are inside (warm) but I will put them near a light bulb so they can dry faster.
#6 how much of the Epoxyed surface will I need to sand down/off to apply a varnish coat, What Im asking is will the varnish fill the fish eye's at all, The reason I ask is the resin that I put on is not very thick, I didn't want to wait for ever for it to dry so I layed it on thin. And I dont want to sand threw the Epoxy trying to remove fish eye's
#7 should I sand down the resin smooth remove al the fish eyes and re- resin?

Messages In This Thread

Epoxy: Working with Marine Grade Epoxy
grant -- 12/23/2003, 8:25 pm
Re: Epoxy: Working with Marine Grade Epoxy
grant -- 12/24/2003, 2:26 am
Re: Epoxy: Working with Marine Grade Epoxy
KenC -- 12/24/2003, 7:39 am
Re: Epoxy: Working with Marine Grade Epoxy
grant -- 12/24/2003, 7:34 pm
Re: Epoxy: Working with Marine Grade Epoxy
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/25/2003, 12:11 am
Re: Epoxy: Working with Marine Grade Epoxy
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/23/2003, 11:34 pm
Re: Epoxy: Working with Marine Grade Epoxy
ChrisO -- 12/23/2003, 10:01 pm
Re: Epoxy: Working with Marine Grade Epoxy *LINK*
srchr/gerald -- 12/23/2003, 9:39 pm
Re: Epoxy: Working with Marine Grade Epoxy
Chip Sandresky -- 12/23/2003, 9:25 pm
Re: Epoxy: Working with Marine Grade Epoxy
grant -- 12/30/2003, 3:41 pm