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Re: End Pour Technique No. 2
By:Dave Houser
Date: 5/5/2001, 3:49 pm
In Response To: End Pour Technique (Mitch Isoe)

When I made the end pours on my Yare, I stood my kayak on end at a steep angle with the sheer clamp centered on the low side. I made each end in two pours so I could run the epoxy down the full-length of the inside, deck-to-shear-clamp seam. This is a good way to fill any of the gaps on the inside of the seam and it also smoothes over any epoxy fillet that squeezes out of the joint. I also used Raka and poured it out of a small paper cup with the rim pinched to form a spout. Almost all of the epoxy made it to the end pour. This was on a plywood boat that had a sharp, 90-degree, inside corner seam to channel the epoxy flow.

Messages In This Thread

End Pour Technique
Mitch Isoe -- 5/5/2001, 9:02 am
Re: End Pour Technique No. 2
Dave Houser -- 5/5/2001, 3:49 pm
other End Pour Techniques
mike allen ---> -- 5/8/2001, 1:27 pm
another one
mike allen ---> -- 5/8/2001, 2:54 pm