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Re: Wood seal coat
By:Ross Leidy
Date: 6/15/1999, 11:23 am
In Response To: Wood seal coat (Doug K.)

One of the supposed benefits of the seal coat is a slightly lighter boat because you avoid epoxy starvation in the cloth caused by particularly thirsty wood underneath. Just apply one seal coat to the wood and leave it. Apply the cloth and wet-out after the seal coat is partially cured (to green state), and wood will not soak up any more epoxy.

> In applying a sealer coat to the wood strips I have found that some of the
> wood soaks up alot of resin and some of the wood doesn't soak up hardly
> any. Is it necessary to keep adding more resin until the wood doesn't soak
> up any more? Or is it better to wet out the wood and leave it? If the
> latter case then will it continue soaking up more resin when the glass is
> applied and wet out?

Messages In This Thread

Wood seal coat
Doug K. -- 6/15/1999, 11:00 am
Re: Wood seal coat
Byron Lawrence -- 6/16/1999, 2:45 pm
Re: Wood seal coat
Patrick in Minnesota -- 6/17/1999, 8:54 am
Re: Thanx
Doug K. -- 6/16/1999, 10:19 am
Re: Wood seal coat
Dean Trexel -- 6/15/1999, 6:18 pm
Re: Wood seal coat
Ross Leidy -- 6/15/1999, 11:23 am