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First time kayak fiberglasser.
By:John Monfoe
Date: 4/8/2001, 6:16 am

I have never fiberglassed for looks as it is done on strip building and I was apprehensive about it. I have a lot of material printed out from this board and it was a little confusing which method to use. Since my deck had cracked and I was told to put on a sealer layer of epoxy to hold it all together and that started me on the method of sealing the wood first with epoxy. I put this on with a 3" foam roller and had a lot of bubbles. I got rid of them by putting my finger on the roller to stop it from turning and drug it across the epoxy and the bubbles just dissapeared. I sanded the deck later only because I needed to fair some of the crack boards. After I layed the fiberglass on the deck ready to put on the epoxy I layed out a brush, squeegee's, a 3" foam roller and roller pan so if one method wasn't working I could go to another quickly. I use the dump method of putting my epoxy on the glass that Raka mentioned by pouring a stream in an "S" pattern and started using my roller. This worked out really good and looked good. I couldn't see that there was any excess epoxy but I picked up a squeegee and tried to get some excess off but there wasn't any. That may be because I rolled the heck out of the cloth spreading the epoxy on to new areas of dry cloth. When I put my next fill coat on I tried a squeegee first and it worked so well that I threw out the idea of using a roller for the fill coats. I will put my third fill coat on in a few minutes and I read where this usually fills the weave completely. If it doesn't, do you go back and just put epoxy on the weave pattern area's you see or do you complete recoat with a fourth fill? Thanks.

John

Messages In This Thread

First time kayak fiberglasser.
John Monfoe -- 4/8/2001, 6:16 am
Re: First time kayak fiberglasser.
John Monfoe -- 4/9/2001, 2:07 pm
Re: First time kayak fiberglasser.
Geo. Cushing -- 4/9/2001, 12:19 pm
Re: First time kayak fiberglasser.
Ron Hagedorn -- 4/8/2001, 11:22 am
Re: foam rollers
daren neufeld -- 4/8/2001, 12:01 pm