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Re: Epoxy: Gummy epoxy
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 9/12/2014, 4:42 pm
In Response To: Re: Epoxy: Gummy epoxy (Jay Stallman)

I still have the deck on the forms but the hull is glassed inside and out and is off the forms, and I will have to join hull to deck later. I have purchased the foot braces and a foam seat which I will install in the hull prior to joining deck to hull, for access. I also got a sheet of the marine microcell foam which I was going to use for a bulkhead (maybe lighter weight than wood)

All comments/suggestions welcome. Thanks,
Jay


Jay-
It sounds like you are making good progress; the deck takes a big part of the building time.
After a bit of an 'epic' on an early kayak where the deck and hull had changed shape and didn't want to align when it came time to join them up, I've taken a fair bit of trouble to keep the shapes under control during the building process.
It might be a good idea to put some sticks across your hull to keep the width at spec. while you are working on the deck - I find that hulls like to 'flop open. Usually some scrap strips with notches will do the job.
Remember that the epoxy/glass/wood laminate will continue to harden up for some weeks, depending on the temperature. It's easy to put a 'fairly flexible' hull aside and come back a month later and find it has stiffened up.

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Epoxy: Gummy epoxy
aikijay -- 9/8/2014, 12:18 pm
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howard -- 9/8/2014, 10:02 pm
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aikijay -- 9/8/2014, 10:46 pm
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Allan -- 9/8/2014, 11:11 pm
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Jay Stallman -- 9/8/2014, 11:40 pm
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Allan -- 9/9/2014, 12:16 am
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howard -- 9/9/2014, 7:14 am
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Etienne Muller -- 9/9/2014, 7:15 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 9/9/2014, 7:39 am
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Robert Horstmann -- 9/9/2014, 9:03 am
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Jay Stallman -- 9/9/2014, 11:43 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 9/9/2014, 12:34 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/12/2014, 3:45 am
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Jay Stallman -- 9/12/2014, 12:47 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/12/2014, 2:27 pm
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Jay Stallman -- 9/12/2014, 4:09 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/12/2014, 4:45 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/12/2014, 6:40 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/12/2014, 4:55 pm
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Jay Stallman -- 9/15/2014, 5:55 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/15/2014, 6:45 pm
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Jay Stallman -- 9/15/2014, 8:53 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/15/2014, 10:14 pm
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aikijay -- 9/16/2014, 7:35 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/16/2014, 12:18 pm
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Jay Stallman -- 9/16/2014, 1:25 pm
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george jung -- 9/16/2014, 2:53 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/16/2014, 4:01 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/16/2014, 3:59 pm
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Jay Stallman -- 9/16/2014, 5:24 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/16/2014, 9:00 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/15/2014, 6:50 pm
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Jay Stallman -- 9/15/2014, 8:48 pm
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howard -- 9/15/2014, 9:37 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/15/2014, 10:19 pm
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Allan -- 9/15/2014, 11:04 pm
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Jay Stallman -- 9/16/2014, 12:07 am
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Allan -- 9/16/2014, 12:45 am
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Allan -- 9/16/2014, 12:53 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/12/2014, 4:42 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/10/2014, 12:49 am