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Re: fill coats, scraping
By:Grant Goltz
Date: 11/1/2000, 12:30 am
In Response To: fill coats (mnicholson)

: I would like advice about whether I should wait for things to harden up and
: sand out the little spikes and wrinkles before I continue or, go ahead and
: squeege a few fill coats and magnify the bumps, lumps, drips and snags.
: Two days after I started, most of the tackiness is gone even though the
: temperature barely got into the 40s. Go Raka. I used the no-blush so
: shouldn't have to worry about that issue.

Rather than sand, you might try a paint scraper. If you do it while the epoxy is still green, it will level off the high spots. When it gets down to where it is riding on the glass, it will make a different sound and will basically quit cutting. With a very little bit of practice you can level out the epoxy quite quickly with the scraper and finish off with a light once-over sanding. Also, the scraper does not fill your shop with epoxy sanding dust.

Grant

Messages In This Thread

fill coats
mnicholson -- 10/30/2000, 8:28 pm
Re: fill coats, scraping
Grant Goltz -- 11/1/2000, 12:30 am
I'll second this *NM*
Jason Given -- 11/1/2000, 11:03 am
Re: fill coats with Raka
Dave Houser -- 10/31/2000, 3:29 pm
Re: fill coats
Ken Sutherland -- 10/31/2000, 1:24 am
Re: fill coats
Paul G. Jacobson -- 10/30/2000, 11:48 pm