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Re: Deck Finish dilemma
By:Rob Macks
Date: 4/12/2001, 1:21 pm
In Response To: Re: Deck Finish dilemma (Ross Leidy)

: If you didn't notice them before you started glassing, the low spot probably
: aren't too low. I'd put some extra epoxy fill coats in that area and fair
: the epoxy rather than going down to wood. I had the same thing happen to
: me on the hull of my Outer Island. Extra fill coats took care of it.

: Ross

: ps. nice save on the outgassing. But on fill coats, I wouldn't expect to see
: them.

Ross is right. Add more resin to your low spots and fair the resin.

I had a hull I was working on for a demo and my attention wandered. I had a dip on a strip joint I hadn't noticed until after it was glassed. It was deep enough that I needed to add a patch of glass on the spot to build up resin faster. the result is invisible.

If you needed to add glass you must coat the glass with the same slow hardner/resin or laminating resin you used on the other glass to have it be transparent.

Good luck!

All the best,

Rob Macks
Laughing Loon CC&K
www.LaughingLoon.com

Messages In This Thread

Deck Finish dilemma
Steve -- 4/12/2001, 10:47 am
Re: Deck Finish dilemma
Ross Leidy -- 4/12/2001, 10:58 am
Re: Deck Finish dilemma
Arthur -- 4/12/2001, 5:24 pm
Re: Deck Finish dilemma
Rob Macks -- 4/12/2001, 1:21 pm