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Re: Strip: The Secert
By:Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K
Date: 11/18/2014, 12:55 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: The Secert (Jay Stallman)

This makes sense. Thank you. Unfortunately I failed to use any spacers, so I think I am going to have to cut off and grind away my under-deck lip, and make a new one with spacers. By the way, it was very difficult to wrap this lip with fiberglass and have the cloth wet out flat, without folds and bubbles. Do you bother separately applying glass to this or just paint it with epoxy directly over the wood? I was thinking of re-doing it using 1/4 inch plywood lip and a 1/8 inch spacer to allow for the gasket, then no glass on the lip. Thanks again for the clear diagram. Jay

Yes, as Daniel pointed out, you have a spacer, the old deck lip.

I make cedar panels for my deck lip and finish the top surface with a veneer. All surfaces of the deck lip are epoxy multi-coated not glassed. Not glassing the deck lip keeps it more flexible to conform and not deform the deck.

Rob

Messages In This Thread

Strip: hatch covers not flush to surface
Jay -- 11/18/2014, 7:39 am
Re: Strip: hatch covers not flush to surface
Jay Babina -- 11/18/2014, 7:58 am
Re: Strip: hatch covers not flush to surface
Rod Tait -- 11/18/2014, 10:37 am
Re: Strip: The Secert *PIC*
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 11/18/2014, 10:47 am
Re: Strip: The Secert
george jung -- 11/18/2014, 11:37 am
Re: Strip: The Secert *PIC*
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 11/18/2014, 12:09 pm
Re: Strip: The Secert
Paul Davies -- 11/18/2014, 12:14 pm
Re: Strip: The Secert
Thomas Duncan -- 11/20/2014, 9:49 am
Re: Strip: The Secert
Jay Stallman -- 11/18/2014, 12:41 pm
Re: Strip: The Secert
Daniel Thaler -- 11/18/2014, 12:49 pm
Re: Strip: The Secert
Jay Stallman -- 11/18/2014, 5:03 pm
Re: Strip: The Secert
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 11/18/2014, 12:55 pm
Some design thoughts
Jay Babina -- 11/18/2014, 3:33 pm
Re: Some design thoughts
Bob Ten Eyck -- 11/18/2014, 3:49 pm
Re: Some design thoughts
scottbaxter -- 11/18/2014, 4:04 pm
Re: Some design thoughts
george jung -- 11/18/2014, 4:54 pm
Re: Some design thoughts *PIC*
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 11/18/2014, 5:57 pm
Re: Some design thoughts
george jung -- 11/18/2014, 6:21 pm
Re: Some design thoughts
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 11/18/2014, 7:04 pm
Re: Some design thoughts
Bill Hamm -- 11/19/2014, 1:28 am
Re: Some design thoughts
george jung -- 11/19/2014, 8:39 am
Re: Some design thoughts
Bill Hamm -- 11/23/2014, 1:51 am
Re: Some design thoughts
Paul Davies -- 11/19/2014, 2:06 am