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Re: Use that squeegee
By:Ben Staley
Date: 1/26/2001, 1:22 pm
In Response To: glass weight (Chris Menard)

I feel obligated to comment since I just completed this step on my first boat and as usual learned a few lessons the hard way.

The one main thing I regret not doing more of is scraping excess resin out of the cloth when wetting it out. On the inside of my hull I did not squeege nearly enough and left way too much resin in and under the cloth. While I was wetting out the hull it bothered me that the cloth would pull away from the chine when I scraped the keel line so I just lightly scraped it and was way too gentle. The result was some nice waves of resin under the cloth that will bother me forever.

When I got to glassing the inside of the deck I spread less epoxy to start with, spread it around more while I was applying it and then came back and scraped more, not worrying about pulling the cloth away, it sticks down just fine with a little pressure.

Unfortunately, the glassing step is one of those things that it seems like no ammount of reading helped me that much (I did a LOT of reading), I just needed to learn the technique by doing it.

Good luck and watch the temperature, make sure to glass when the temp is dropping not rising. And don't be stupid like me and put your droplight under the hull to help the temp rise after you are done wetting out. :)

Messages In This Thread

glass weight
Chris Menard -- 1/26/2001, 10:14 am
Guillemot - 32lbs
Dwight -- 1/26/2001, 8:59 pm
Re: Use that squeegee
Ben Staley -- 1/26/2001, 1:22 pm
Re: Use that squeegee
David Hanson -- 1/26/2001, 6:23 pm
Re: Use that squeegee
Ben Staley -- 1/26/2001, 8:00 pm
Re: Use that squeegee
David Hanson -- 1/27/2001, 8:50 am
Re: Use that squeegee
Mark Widrick -- 1/26/2001, 1:42 pm
Re: Use that squeegee
scambria@gte.net -- 1/26/2001, 2:01 pm
Re: 1 ply or 2?
Geo. Cushing -- 2/2/2001, 12:18 pm
glass weight
Sam McFadden -- 1/26/2001, 12:55 pm