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Re: Strip: glassing
By:Brian Scarborough
Date: 5/25/2010, 9:36 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: glassing (Kurt Maurer)

A heat gun should really help with the pulling off with pliers part.

Brian

: If it won't take any more resin and just stays white, then yeah,
: looks like you get to sand it off. Might try pulling it off with
: pliers (catfish skinning pliers?), try scrapers, try a wire
: wheel in a drill, try anything and everything that sounds like
: it might work. Use caution when experimenting, of course; the
: idea is to save retro time, not add hours to the project.

: I once got about halfway through glassing out a deck and had an
: emergency call me away, couldn't get back to it for 24 hours.
: The "wet edge" I left was well defined, and the next
: day I simply took up where I left off, and it worked out well
: except you could see where the break in the action had occurred.
: But lo and behold, the demarcation faded, then vanished
: altogether in a couple days. That was on my Cormorant, in '04,
: and I'm still paddling that sweetheart.

: Good luck with yours, and let us know what happens....?

Messages In This Thread

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buck biscuit -- 5/25/2010, 6:59 pm
Re: Strip: glassing
Dave -- 5/31/2010, 10:13 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/3/2010, 2:38 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 5/25/2010, 7:08 pm
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Brian Scarborough -- 5/25/2010, 9:36 pm
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Allan -- 5/25/2010, 10:50 pm
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Mike Hanks -- 5/25/2010, 10:28 pm