Hi everyone,
I just finished laying the last of my deck on Friday and planed and sanded on Sunday. I ran into one small(?) problem. As I was planing and sanding I noticed that there were areas where the strips were not perfectly attached. Mostly these places were where ZI had diffeent types of wood next to each other. In other words, I used red cedar for the most part- all of the hull and most of the deck, but I used Mahogony for accent stripes with white pine as a field color inside the acent strips. The mahogany seemed to have difficulty bonding to the other wood. (No problem glueing to itself, however.) I pried the strips apart a bit and applied more glue and placed a few stapeles just to hold everything in p[lace till the glue dried. My question is, do I need to worry about this in the final layup? Will the resin act as a glue? There are slight (1/32") or so gaps in the joint. Will the resin flow into this joint and act as glue?
Also, I'm concerned about what will happen when I take the deck off the forms. What do I place the deck on to hold it while I plane and sand the insides? I cut out for the cockpit already, probably shouldn't have done that till the inside was glassed. I'm concerned that there isn't sufficient "meat" om the sides of the cockpit to support the deck uder the pressure of finishing. Any suggestions?
One last question, how critical is temperature for the resin? I've been taking it outside to work on on sunny days, but I was going to be glassing it in the garage. I don't have heat in the garage, so I can't heat it even if I wanted to. (Which I don't) Will it be a problem if the temp gets into the 40's or so after the resin is put down?
Lots of questions, thanks in advance for the help
Paul