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Re: Strip: Fill coat in fiberglassing
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 2/8/2010, 12:27 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Fill coat in fiberglassing (victor druten)

: BILl...GLAD you got on. WILL use the paint tray with roller. NOW,
: need to know what kind of roller we are talking about. Found
: different NAP sizes, foam and even one called sponge. Need your
: help again, Swami. Love the OneWay only advice...you don't get
: those little tidbits in videos and stuff.

I use West epoxy's rollers cut down to half length and a small roller. I've used others and have had some fall apart in the middle of a job. Sometimes you can find candy stripe rollers (looks like a barber's pole) and these work fine too, though they tend to be expensive, they are normally used by contractors to apply contact cement so they don't fall apart with the sticky epoxy nor the solvents in glue/epoxy. A normal 7" or 9" roller is too wide for kayaks, there are roller frames for either size cut in half, use a utility knife to do that.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Fill coat in fiberglassing
victor druten -- 2/6/2010, 7:21 pm
Re: Strip: Fill coat in fiberglassing
Bill Hamm -- 2/7/2010, 12:25 am
Re: Strip: Fill coat in fiberglassing
victor druten -- 2/7/2010, 12:48 pm
Re: Strip: Fill coat in fiberglassing
Bill Hamm -- 2/8/2010, 12:27 am