: Good afternoon,

: I hope all is well, and thanks for the help with this first build
: Eric Shade has been a great help and I thank him for chatting
: all the times I called . the merganser is at the 90% point , its
: been fun but not without problems. the biggest being not
: thickening epoxy enough for fillets and since I am in a rush to
: finish this boat I did sand through the glass cloth in a few
: spots where my fill coats were not that thick, but none are in
: spaots that will see sand or gravel.

: Im close to doing finish and ran across an issue PIN HOLES in epoxy
: filled with epoxy dust ( looks white) I would think when
: varnished the dust would saturate and go clear But I dabbed a
: bit of varnish on a few spots and Im sad to say that the spots
: stayed white, perhaps I did not giv the varnish enough time to
: soak I cleaned it off within a few seconds of applying the
: varnish.

: if the epoxy dust will not saturate what the best way to clean out
: the holes besides digging each out with a pin???

: there are not that many 3-4 small sections of multiple micro holes
: 4-5 little holes the size of a sewing needle point.

: HELP Please

: "John"

I"ve found that using a vacumm cleaners brush attachment picks up most of the sanding dust out of the holes. If you work the brush back and forth and from different directions it seems to work best.