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Re: Filling the weave techniques after wet out
By:Ross Leidy
Date: 6/14/1999, 8:49 am
In Response To: Filling the weave techniques after wet out (Randy Bertrand)

Glad to hear everything went well. Filling the weave with the foam roller and tipping off with a foam brush is perfect. It seems to be the most common method. And yes, the using the squeegie to remove excess epoxy is only needed on the initial wet-out. After that, you want to fill the weave in as few passes as possible without getting runs (just to save time).

> This weekend, I tackled my first Glassing experience by Glassing the
> exterior hull. During wet out of the glass, I definitely preferred using a
> squeegee for applying the epoxy and only switched to a chip brush at the
> Bow and Stern where the surface is vertical. What I am not so settled on
> though is what to use to apply the epoxy for filling the weave. I tried to
> use a squeegee and although is spread the epoxy quickly, I was not
> confident of spreading out a uniform thickness of epoxy especially over
> the "bumps" (cloth edge fraying of 2nd cloth layer) so for the
> next coat of epoxy I switched to a roller followed by tipping off the
> bubbles with a foam brush. I worked the saturated roller quickly over the
> entire kayak before the epoxy in the roller started to gel up (Thanks Ross
> for that tip!) and that seemed to get me the best results in a very short
> amount of time. Also, I have a dumb question about using the squeegee to
> remove the excess epoxy. Is this only done when you initially wet out the
> cloth? I tried doing this one of the follow on epoxy coats but it did not
> seem to be effective except to help spread the epoxy coat more evenly.

> Thanks,

> Randy

Messages In This Thread

Filling the weave techniques after wet out
Randy Bertrand -- 6/13/1999, 11:47 pm
Re: Filling the weave techniques after wet out
Ross Leidy -- 6/14/1999, 8:49 am
Re: Filling the weave techniques after wet out
Mike Hanks -- 6/14/1999, 12:15 am