: 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"

Hi John,
If you have one, a hand held car vacuum cleaner, the mains powered type, should do the job.
Scrubbing the area with the brush attachment on would help as well.

Mike Savage
South West Cork