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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Kayak building in China
By:John Monroe
Date: 12/18/2007, 5:36 am

: I'll second that.
: All fabrics intended for encapsulation in a resin are treated with a sizing
: to make them compatible to one particular resin. That's one of the reasons
: why buying wads of cheap glass cloth off eBay is a crap shoot.

Wow! I didn't know that, guys. I'll run a test before I use it. I learn something new all the time. This glass was setting by a two-part epoxy or polyester, I didn't really look at it closely but I'm guessing it's probably OK. I have bought glass from one place and my epoxy from another without problems in the past. Maybe I was lucky.

John

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Kayak building in China
John Monroe -- 12/16/2007, 4:06 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Kayak building in China
PatrickC -- 12/18/2007, 9:00 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Kayak building in China
Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 12/16/2007, 11:24 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Kayak building in China
Charlie -- 12/16/2007, 12:51 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Kayak building in China
John Monroe -- 12/18/2007, 5:36 am
Low cost fiberglass cloth *LINK*
Glen Smith -- 12/18/2007, 9:32 pm
Thanks for the link. It was new to me. *NM*
John Monroe -- 12/19/2007, 2:26 am