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Bit the bulit and just did it *PIC*
By:Jmoore
Date: 9/5/2011, 2:45 pm

Thanks gain for all the advice. In the end I used the squeegee method for applying the epoxy because I sal lots and lots of bubbles when I tried the roller method. With the roller looked like a zit riled 13 year old girls face and I did not feel like having to weight a weak between coats to sand out all the bubbles.

The time line I flowed was:
Fill/seal coat 8pm to 9pm
Lay glass on and wet out: 1am to 4am (this was a little to soon because the fill coat was a little tacky.)
Fill coats for glass: noon, 8 pm and 6 am.

For the final fill coat Dad talked me into using a foam brush like a squeegee which seemed to work well and left a loot more of the epoxy on the boat. however it did leave more ridges than the squeegee which did not lay dow right aways the temperature has fallen in to the 60's and the epoxy is more like tar than liquid. I am going to go back out now to see how she looks.

I do have an off topic question for those in the north that don't have a real shop. What do you do to heat you work space in the winter? Salamander or other kerosene heater?

The pic is of the hull some time after wet out before the final fill coat.

Messages In This Thread

Epoxy: Fill Coat and glassing time line and other questio *PIC*
Jmoore -- 9/1/2011, 7:31 pm
Re: Epoxy: Fill Coat and glassing time line and ot
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/1/2011, 8:05 pm
Re: Epoxy: Fill Coat and glassing time line and ot
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 9/1/2011, 8:20 pm
Re: Epoxy: Fill Coat and glassing time line and ot
Eric M. -- 9/2/2011, 11:37 am
Re: Epoxy: Fill Coat and glassing time line and ot
Jmoore -- 9/2/2011, 12:49 pm
Re: Epoxy: Fill Coat and glassing time line and ot
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 9/2/2011, 1:42 pm
Re: Epoxy: Fill Coat and glassing time line and ot
Jmoore -- 9/2/2011, 1:58 pm
Re: Epoxy: Fill Coat and glassing time line and ot
Bill Hamm -- 9/3/2011, 1:19 am
Re: Epoxy: Fill Coat and glassing time line and ot
Greg New -- 9/2/2011, 7:07 pm
Bit the bulit and just did it *PIC*
Jmoore -- 9/5/2011, 2:45 pm
Should not have lissend to dad! *PIC*
Jmoore -- 9/5/2011, 3:54 pm
Re: Should not have lissend to dad!
Rick Jensen -- 9/5/2011, 4:38 pm
Re: Should not have lissend to dad!
dave g -- 9/5/2011, 8:56 pm
Re: Should not have lissend to dad!
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/6/2011, 5:08 am
Re: Should not have lissend to dad!
Mike Savage -- 9/6/2011, 1:43 pm
Re: Bit the bulit and just did it
Bill Hamm -- 9/6/2011, 2:00 am
Re: Bit the bulit and just did it
Sean D -- 9/6/2011, 10:32 am
Re: Bit the bulit and just did it
Jmoore -- 9/6/2011, 12:03 pm