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Re: No mystery
By:Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K
Date: 11/6/2012, 2:08 pm
In Response To: Re: No mystery (Wayne one)

: Rob, your view, among others, is making this a consensus. What I
: STILL don't get, is how this squares with the 2 photos I've
: shown (after the problem post / photo), that show the initial
: glasswork as being what I considered to be ideal. And / or,
: getting to the seal coat that I did, and then followed up a day
: or two later with glass... you're saying the glass application
: layer did not bond (fully?) with the seal coat?

All I meant was the seal coat was not needed, since you will not be looking
at the hull/deck interior, the lay-up need not be totally transparent to
be okay. So, no problem between your seal coat and glass.

However, the fact that you used a seal coat eliminates the wood as a suspect
in starving the glass.

I think what happened was after you squeegeed it looked fine.

When you used the boat and got moisture, whether water or condensation,
the uncoated tip tops of the glass fibers revealed themselves as white/uncoated.

Epoxy is really very weird stuff. It could have settled lower in the glass matrix
after you squeegeed it, over the time it took to set-up.

Did you use a stiff squeegee? I use plastic milk carton, for squeegees, although I did find
a very soft edge one at my marine supplier recently.

Good luck!

Rob

Messages In This Thread

S&G: Bluefin complete *PIC*
Wayne one -- 11/4/2012, 6:53 pm
My take on Etienne's skeg *PIC*
Wayne one -- 11/4/2012, 6:55 pm
Re: S&G: Bluefin complete
Robert N Pruden -- 11/4/2012, 6:55 pm
My question / mystery *PIC*
Wayne one -- 11/4/2012, 6:57 pm
Re: My question / mystery
Don T. -- 11/4/2012, 9:51 pm
Re: My question / mystery *PIC*
Wayne one -- 11/4/2012, 10:25 pm
Re: My question / mystery
Bill Hamm -- 11/5/2012, 12:10 am
Re: My question / mystery *PIC*
Wayne one -- 11/5/2012, 6:51 am
Re: My question / mystery
Justin -- 11/5/2012, 12:13 pm
Re: My question / mystery
Bill Hamm -- 11/6/2012, 1:00 am
Re: My question / mystery
Bill Hamm -- 11/6/2012, 12:59 am
Re: My question / mystery
Etienne Muller -- 11/5/2012, 10:56 am
Re: My question / mystery
Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/5/2012, 4:19 pm
Re: My question / mystery
Robert N Pruden -- 11/5/2012, 5:29 pm
No mystery
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 11/6/2012, 8:57 am
Re: No mystery
Wayne one -- 11/6/2012, 12:52 pm
Re: No mystery
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 11/6/2012, 2:08 pm
Re: No mystery
Wayne one -- 11/6/2012, 3:57 pm
Re: No mystery
Robert N Pruden -- 11/6/2012, 5:07 pm
Re: My question / mystery
frankp -- 11/8/2012, 11:37 am
Thank you for comments and suggestions! NT
Wayne one -- 11/6/2012, 3:59 pm
Re: Thank you for comments and suggestions! NT
Robert N Pruden -- 11/6/2012, 5:13 pm