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Re: Strip: Drips of epoxy on surface
By:Mike Bielski
Date: 12/18/2014, 2:44 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Drips of epoxy on surface (Jay Stallman)

It's actually the soft pad conforming that is causing you the problems. You need to remove the high spots, not sand the entire area, so you need something harder that is more easily controlled so that it only takes of the high spots. If the pad conforms too well it will take the same amount of material off from everything, meaning that it's lowering the low spots the same amount as the hight spots. That gets to be a never-ending circle of wasted material.

If you go to the West web site, one of their recent Epoxyworks magazines had an article on putting down a smooth bubble-free coat of epoxy. You'll find that switching from a chip brush to a roller you'll trade bristles in the finish for bubbles in the finish, but there are some ways to minimize it.

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Strip: Drips of epoxy on surface
Jay -- 12/18/2014, 7:25 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 12/18/2014, 8:43 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 12/18/2014, 9:29 am
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Jay Stallman -- 12/18/2014, 1:12 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 12/18/2014, 2:02 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/18/2014, 2:27 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/18/2014, 9:34 am
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Mike Bielski -- 12/18/2014, 10:22 am
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Jay Stallman -- 12/18/2014, 1:08 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 12/18/2014, 2:44 pm
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Les Cheeseman -- 12/18/2014, 3:41 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 12/18/2014, 4:26 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/19/2014, 8:28 am
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rich -- 12/18/2014, 2:21 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/18/2014, 2:37 pm
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wanderfalk -- 12/25/2014, 1:53 am
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Etienne Muller -- 12/18/2014, 6:32 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 12/19/2014, 12:51 am
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Jay -- 1/4/2015, 6:48 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 1/4/2015, 7:39 pm
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Jay Stallman -- 1/4/2015, 8:44 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 1/4/2015, 8:50 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/5/2015, 12:10 am
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Jay Stallman -- 1/5/2015, 8:23 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 1/5/2015, 7:45 pm
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Jay Stallman -- 1/5/2015, 10:08 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 1/5/2015, 10:23 pm
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Jay -- 1/5/2015, 10:34 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/6/2015, 12:32 am
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Etienne Muller -- 1/6/2015, 4:40 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 1/4/2015, 9:52 pm