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Re: Removal of Excess Epoxy
By:Ross Leidy
Date: 3/2/2000, 4:03 pm
In Response To: Removal of Excess Epoxy (Mike Brack)

Those Surform scrapers work well for removing epoxy blobs. It's the tool that's basically a handle with a small, rectangular, convex section of Surform on one end. It chews up epoxy blobs in no time.

> I'm currently building my first kayak - Pygmy Coho. I've just glued up the
> inside butt seams with epoxy and fiberglass tape. Unfortunately, I may
> have used too much epoxy and also didn't extend the fiberglass tape far
> enough beyond the width of the panel, because some fairly large blobs of
> epoxy squeezed out along the edge of the panel at the butt seams. Although
> I'm on strike and have a lot of time on my hands, I don't want to spend it
> sanding this excess off. I've thought about maybe using a small hand saw
> (coping saw?) to remove most of it before sanding it flush to the plank.
> Any thoughts on how best to proceed?

> When I do the other side I plan to extend the tape plus try and
> remove/spread/squeegee the excess so I don't have to deal with this
> problem again.

> Any helpful comments would be appreciated.

> Mike

Messages In This Thread

Removal of Excess Epoxy
Mike Brack -- 3/2/2000, 3:57 pm
Re: Try a flush cut saw
Will -- 3/4/2000, 9:38 pm
Re: Removal of Excess Epoxy
Paul Francy -- 3/4/2000, 12:12 pm
Re: Removal of Excess Epoxy
Chris Casazza -- 3/3/2000, 7:09 am
Re: Removal of Excess Epoxy
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/2/2000, 4:22 pm
Chisel worked
Mike Brack -- 3/2/2000, 7:22 pm
a new record?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/2/2000, 8:27 pm
Re: Removal of Excess Epoxy
Tim Stough -- 3/2/2000, 4:14 pm
Re: Removal of Excess Epoxy
Ross Leidy -- 3/2/2000, 4:03 pm